{"id":29701,"date":"2021-11-08T11:45:41","date_gmt":"2021-11-08T17:45:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/blog\/?p=29701"},"modified":"2022-02-07T11:31:55","modified_gmt":"2022-02-07T17:31:55","slug":"10-biggest-main-event-winnings-of-all-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/blog\/10-biggest-main-event-winnings-of-all-time\/","title":{"rendered":"The Top 10 Biggest Main Event Winnings Of All Time"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

As you might know, poker surged in popularity\nafter 2003. Ever since, Main Events have had huge fields with the winners\ntaking home massive prizes that those who came before them couldn\u2019t ever have\ndreamed of.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This article will look into the 10 biggest ever\nMain Event winnings on record. If you’ve been on the fence about trying your\nluck at the WSOP, these numbers might help tip the scale.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1. $12 Million – Jamie Gold (2006) <\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
\"Jamie
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The 2006 WSOP Main Event remains the biggest one to date. The tournament attracted a record-breaking field of 8,773 runners, creating by far the biggest prize pool<\/a> in WSOP history. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

When the dust settled, it was announced the\nwinner would receive $12 million!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This was the first time the winner was poised\nfor an eight-figure amount, and it was a rather big increase compared to the\nprevious two years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After a grueling multi-day battle on the felt, Jamie Gold<\/a> took home the win and the $12 million. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gold was an amateur player who got into the Main Event thanks to his deal with a casino operator and went on the hottest run of his life to secure the win in the biggest-ever Main Event field.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gold\u2019s victory was marked by some controversy,\nas it later came to light he agreed beforehand to give half of his Main Event\nwinnings to one Crispin Leyser, the man who helped him get the deal. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the end, Gold agreed to pay Leyser an\nundisclosed amount of money, so he wasn\u2019t able to keep the entire amount.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2. $10 Million – Martin Jacobson (2014)<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
\"Martin
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For the most part, the prize for the Main Event\nwinner is a direct reflection of the total number of buy-ins. The more entries\nthere are, the bigger the win. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, Martin Jacobson managed to pocket $10\nmillion for his 2014 win, although this wasn’t one of the biggest Main Events\nin history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That year, the organizers decided to try a\nlittle experiment, and they guaranteed the payout of $10 million for the\nwinner, regardless of the overall prize pool. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This was great for whoever would walk away with\nthe bracelet but not so great for the runner-up and other players who made it\nto the final table.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jacobson took home $10 million but his fellow\npro Felix Stephensen, who finished in second place, won \u201conly\u201d $5.1 million. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This was by far the biggest discrepancy between\nthe first and the second place in Main Events, and it didn’t go over too well\nwith the players. So, the WSOP abandoned the idea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To add insult to injury, Stephensen had to pay more than 50 percent in taxes<\/a> on his winnings. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jacobson, being a UK resident, didn\u2019t have to pay any taxes, so in the end his payout was four times bigger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

3. $10 Million – Hossein Ensan (2019) <\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
\"Hossein
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Although the Main Event saw a massive uptick in\n2006, it turned out to be a bit of a fluke. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the years to follow, prize pools couldn\u2019t\nget anywhere near the 2006 record. In fact, it took all the way until 2019\nbefore another Main Event would come close.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2019, 8,569 players descended upon Las Vegas\nin their quest for fame and fortunes, coming very close to setting a brand new\nrecord. Although that didn\u2019t happen, the prize pool exceeded $80.5 million, and\n$10 million of that was set aside for the winner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This time around, Lady Luck favored Hossein\nEnsan, an Iranian-born German player whose rather unorthodox and bold playing\nstyle left his opponents puzzled and perplexed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ensan defeated the Italian pro Dario Sammartino\nin the final skirmish, locking up what is by far the biggest win of his poker\ncareer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

4. $9,152,416 – Peter Eastgate (2008)<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
\"Peter
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The 2008 WSOP Main Event was a very important one in WSOP history<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was the first time ever that the tournament\ndidn’t play down to the winner. Instead, the final table play was suspended\nuntil November, when players would come back to Rio to play until there was a\nwinner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The concept, which came to be known as the\n“November Nine”, stuck around for quite a few years before organizers\nwent back to the old way of doing things.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Coincidentally, this was also the year that\nawarded the fourth-largest prize for the Main Event winner. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The final nine came back to play for the massive first-place prize of over $9.1 million. When it was all said and done, the Danish player P<\/a>e<\/a>ter Eastgate<\/a> held all the chips.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Eastgate didn\u2019t break the record for the\nbiggest Main Event win, but he did become the youngest-ever Main Event winner\nat the time. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

That record was short-lived, though, as it was broken the very next year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

5. $8,944,310 – Jonathan Duhamel (2010)<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
\"Jonathan
Image: YouTube<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The year 2010 saw 7,319 players going to Las\nVegas to play in the Main Event. It was the second-largest tournament field in\nthe event’s history up to that point, and it stayed in this spot until 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite the large field and the total prize\npool of almost $69 million, the winner took home only the fifth-biggest prize\nin history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Canadian pro Jonathan Duhamel took home the\nvictory and the coveted bracelet after outlasting every aspiring player in the\ntournament. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

For his efforts, Duhamel received $8,944,310.\nThis was also the first of three WSOP bracelets that he\u2019s managed to win up to\nthis point.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2011, the Canadian was a victim of a home\ninvasion, and his Main Event bracelet was stolen. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

He did eventually get it back when a street\ncleaner found it, but it was in a really bad condition, with many pieces\nmissing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Luckily, the thieves were only able to get\n$150,000 in cash from his home, half of which was retrieved when the police\ncaught the perpetrators.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

6. $8.8 Million – John Cynn (2018)<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
\"John
Image: YouTube<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

It was only in 2018 that the 2010 Main Event\nlost its spot as the second-biggest. That year saw a total of 7,874 players cough\nup $10,000 each, generating the prize pool of over $74 million.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was an important moment in the WSOP\u2019s\nhistory, as numbers were ticking up once again, beating the previous year\u2019s\ncount of 7,221.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As is usually the case, a massive chunk of the\noverall prize pool was set aside for the winner. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This time around, it was a nice-looking number\nof $8.8 million. It may not have been the biggest ever Main Event payout, but\nit was definitely a life-changing amount.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Interestingly enough, one of the players at the\nfinal table was the 2009 Main Event winner Joe Cada, who was in a great spot to\nmake history and claim the second ME bracelet. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This didn\u2019t happen, though, as he was\neventually sent to the rail in fifth, earning a $2.1 million consolation prize.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The title, the glory, and the $8.8 million went\nto John Cynn, a US-born poker pro, whose biggest cash win up to that point was\n$650,000 for the 11th<\/sup> place finish in the 2016 Main Event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

7. $8,711,956 – Pius Heinz<\/strong> (2011)<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
\"Pius
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There are quite a few strong players hailing\nfrom Germany, but it was only in 2011 that the country got its first Main Event\nwinner. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was Pius Heinz, a young professional born in\n1989, who outlasted the field of 6,868 runners and pocketed more than $8.7\nmillion for his performance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Interestingly enough, Heinz has never been too\nkeen on playing live poker. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

He honed his skills playing poker online<\/a> and found the live play way too slow and boring. Yet, he decided to give that 2011 Main Event a try, entering Day 1A, with plans to get over it quickly and go home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Little did he know that Lady Luck had very\ndifferent plans in store for him. After several days of play, he was the one\nholding all the chips and taking the winner’s photos for the media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite this huge success, it seems his\napproach to live tournaments hasn’t changed much. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Heinz has only cashed in a few events since his\nMain Event victory, and his total live tournament winnings (including the ME)\ncurrently stand at close to $9.1 million.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

8. $8,547,042 \u2013 Joe Cada (2009)<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
\"Joe
Image: YouTube<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

In 2008, Peter Eastgate became the youngest\nMain Event winner in the history of the competition. He was 22 when he won,\ntaking down the record long-held by none other than Phil Hellmuth. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unlike Hellmuth, who got to enjoy his\nachievement for almost two decades, Eastgate\u2019s record was broken the very next\nyear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Joe Cada was only 21 when he entered the 2009\nMain Event, and this was the first year he was legally allowed to play. The\nminimum age limit to play in most casinos in the US is 21, and it\u2019s the age\nlimit in place for the World Series.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That year saw 6,494 players generate the prize\npool of $61 million, with over $8.5 million set aside for the winner. In the\nend, it was Cada standing tall, claiming the big win, and becoming the youngest\nMain Event champion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But, this wasn\u2019t the only thing that marked\nthat final table.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The runner-up Darvin Moon was the talk of the tournament. His story was similar to that of Chris Moneymaker<\/a>, and if he were to win, many believed it would trigger another poker boom. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the end, Moon finished in second place,\npocketing close to $5.2 million, but there wasn\u2019t a massive influx of players\nafter that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The second interesting story was that of Phil Ivey<\/a>, one of the best poker players in the world still awaiting his Main Event breakthrough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That year, Ivey made it to the final table, and\nthere were countless fans around the world rooting for him to take it down. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unfortunately, things didn\u2019t quite pan out for Ivey\nwho was eliminated in 7th<\/sup> when his AK couldn’t hold up against\nMoon’s AQ.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

9. $8,527,982 – Greg Merson (2012)<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
\"Greg
Image: YouTube<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The 2012 Main Event saw very similar numbers to\nthe one from 2009. Although the number of entries was slightly larger (6,598),\nthe final prize for the winner was a bit smaller. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Greg Merson walked away with the win, pocketing\n$8,527,982 for his performance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Merson was a young gun who came up playing\nonline cash games. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, 2012 was a huge year for him, as he\nended up winning another WSOP bracelet, claiming the victory in the $10,000\n6-max Championship. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a result of this and other cashes during the\nSeries, he also claimed the coveted title of the Player of the Year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite his success on the felt, Merson had to\nfight many demons on a personal level. He became addicted to drugs when he was\n17, and his battle with addiction was a long and grueling one. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to him, he finally overcame it in December\n2011, just a few months prior to his stellar performance in the 2012 World\nSeries of Poker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

10. $8,359,531 – Ryan Riess (2013)<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
\"Ryan
Image: YouTube<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Rounding up this list of the biggest Main Event\nwinnings is the 2013 Main Event won by Ryan \u201cThe Beast\u201d Riess. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in 1990, Riess was 23 when he took down\nthe title after outlasting the field of 6,352 players.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This was the first year of playing live poker\nseriously for the man with the peculiar nickname. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

He certainly started things off with a bang, as\nhis win netted him $8,359,531. Riess continued playing in the years to follow,\nand his live tournament winnings currently stand at just over $15 million.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For more WSOP content, check out:
We Analyzed Every WSOP Winner Since 2003 To See If A Certain Personality Makes You A Born Champion<\/a><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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