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title: "WSOP Main Event Winners By Year and Winnings"
url: https://tourneyblog.com/category/Land-Tournaments/WSOP-Main-Event-Winners-By-Year-and-Winnings-200903250006/
description: "The World Series of Poker Main Event began in 1970 and was an invitational tournament with just one table's worth of players. 38 years later, the event is a freezeout.."
published: 2009-03-25
updated: 2009-03-25
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# WSOP Main Event Winners By Year and Winnings

Published 2009-03-25

The World Series of Poker Main Event began in 1970 and was an invitational tournament with just one table's worth of players. 38 years later, the event is a freezeout. Anyone who can pay their way in either with cold, hard cash or by winning a satellite live or online can play…and thousands do.

The popularity of poker has turned the WSOP Main Event into one of the richest events in sports with the winner receiving a multi-million dollar payday and sponsorship deals that could well exceed that.

Here's the list of WSOP Main Event winners by year (going backwards) and amount they won:

Filed with: Doyle Brunson, Johnny Chan, Phil Hellmuth, World Series Of Poker, WSOP