2003 World Series of Poker

The 2003 World Series of Poker (WSOP) was held at Binion's Horseshoe.

Preliminary events[]

Event	Winner	Prize	Runner-up
$500 Casino Employees Limit Hold'em	David Lukaszewski	$35,800	Paul Trieglaff
$2,000 Limit Hold'em	Mohammed Ibrahim	$290,420	Jon Brody
$1,500 Seven-card stud	Toto Leonidas	$98,760	Rallis Peter Tanagiotias
$2,000 Omaha Hi-Lo Split	Chris Ferguson	$123,680	Barry Bindelglass
$2,000 No Limit Hold'em	Jim Meehan	$280,100	Guy Calvert
$1,500 Pot Limit Hold'em	Prahlad Friedman	$109,400	Bernd Rygol
$1,500 Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo Split	Minh Nguyen	$106,020	Bob Mangino
$1,500 Pot Limit Omaha	Erik Seidel	$146,100	Men Nguyen
$2,000 H.O.R.S.E.	Doyle Brunson	$84,080	Brian Haveson
$2,000 1/2 Hold'em, 1/2 Seven Card Stud	Chris Ferguson	$66,220	Diego Cordovez
$2,500 No Limit Hold'em	Phi Nguyen	$222,800	Jim Miller
$2,500 Limit Hold'em	Phil Hellmuth Jr	$171,400	Young Phan
$2,500 Seven Card Stud	Michael Saltzburg	$95,580	Mimi Tran
$5,000 No Limit Deuce to Seven Draw	O'Neil Longson	$147,680	Allen Cunningham
$5,000 No Limit Hold'em	Johnny Chan	$224,400	Surinder Sunar
$1,500 Limit Omaha	Eddy Scharf	$63,600	Dave Colclough
$1,500 Limit Hold'em	John Arrage	$178,600	Kathy Liebert
$5,000 Seven-Card Razz	Huck Seed	$71,500	Phil Ivey
$2,500 Omaha Hi-Lo Split	Layne Flack	$119,260	Men Nguyen
$2,000 Pot Limit Hold'em	Mickey Appleman	$147,280	Brian Plona
$1,000 Seniors' No Limit Hold'em	Ron Rose	$130,060	Ron McMillan
$2,500 Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo Split	John Juanda	$130,200	Shahram Sheikhan
$1,500 No Limit Hold'em	Amir Vahedi	$270,000	Cleve Haley
$2,000 S.H.O.E.	Daniel Negreanu	$100,440	Jim Pechac
$5,000 Pot Limit Omaha	Johnny Chan	$158,100	Emmanuel Sebag
$1,500 Limit Hold'em Shootout	Layne Flack	$120,000	Annie Duke
$3,000 Limit Hold'em	Tom Jacobs	$163,000	Jan Sjavik
$1,000 Ladies' 1/2 Hold'em, 1/2 Stud	Barb Rugolo	$40,700	J. J. Liu
$1,500 Omaha Hi-Lo Split	Frankie O'Dell	$133,760	Bill Schonsheck
$3,000 Pot Limit Hold'em	Charles Keith Lehr	$225,040	Chris Ferguson
$5,000 Seven Card Stud	Men Nguyen	$178,560	Mel Judah
$3,000 No Limit Hold'em	Phil Hellmuth Jr	$410,860	Daniel Negreanu
$2,500 Pot Limit Omaha	John Juanda	$203,840	O'Neil Longson
$5,000 Limit Hold'em	Juan Carlos Mortensen	$251,680	Mark Gregorich
$1,500 Ace to Five Triple Draw Lowball	Men Nguyen	$43,520	Charles Keith Lehr

Main Event[]

There were 839 entrants to the main event. Each paid $10,000 to enter what was the largest poker tournament ever played in a brick and mortar casino at the time. Many entrants, including the overall winner Chris Moneymaker, won their seat in online poker tournaments. The 2003 Main Event was the first tournament to pay out at least $2,500,000 to the winner. Dan Harrington made the final table and looked to win his second Main Event championship, but fell short in third place.

Final table[]

Name	Number of chips (percentage of total)	WSOP Bracelets*	WSOP Cashes*	WSOP Earnings*
Chris Moneymaker	2,344,000 (27.9%)	0	0	0
Amir Vahedi	1,407,000 (16.8%)	1	4	$314,950
Sam Farha	999,000 (11.9%)	1	2	$193,140
Tomer Benvenisti	922,000 (11.0%)	0	0	0
David Singer	750,000 (8.9%)	0	8	$93,115
Jason Lester	695,000 (8.3%)	0	11	$128,200
Dan Harrington	574,000 (6.8%)	2	7	$1,325,858
Young Pak	360,000 (4.3%)	0	4	$33,819
David Grey	338,000 (4.0%)	1	7	$306,664

*Career statistics prior to the beginning of the 2003 Main Event.

Final table results[]

Place	Name	Prize
1st	Chris Moneymaker	$2,500,000
2nd	Sam Farha	$1,300,000
3rd	Dan Harrington	$650,000
4th	Jason Lester	$440,000
5th	Tomer Benvenisti	$320,000
6th	Amir Vahedi	$250,000
7th	Young Pak	$200,000
8th	David Grey	$160,000
9th	David Singer	$120,000

Other Notable Finishes[]

Place	Name	Prize
10th	Phil Ivey	$82,700
11th	Minh Nguyen	$80,000
12th	Dutch Boyd	$80,000
13th	Kassem "Freddy" Deeb	$65,000
14th	Marcel Lüske	$65,000
15th	Bruno Fitoussi	$65,000
18th	Scotty Nguyen	$55,000
19th	Howard Lederer	$45,000
23rd	Dennis Waterman	$45,000
25th	Men Nguyen	$45,000
27th	Phil Hellmuth Jr	$45,000
29th	Victor Ramdin	$35,000