Seniors Championship

This article is about the poker tournament. For the snooker tournament see World Seniors Championship .

The Seniors Championship and Super Seniors Championship are poker tournaments played annually at the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas .

structure

The Seniors Championship was first played in May 2001 . To the tournament in the variant No-Limit Texas Hold'em to participate, a player to the tournament starts must be at least 50 years old. Since the 2015 WSOP , the Super Seniors Championship has also been held, and you have to be at least 60 years old (from 2015 to 2017 even 65 years old) to participate. This event was won twice in a row in 2016 and 2017 by the American James Moore and in 2018 by Farhintaj Bonyadi , mother of the three-time bracelet winner Farzad Bonyadi . The buy-in is at all tournaments in 1000 US dollars .

Previous events

Seniors

Dan Heimiller won the 2014 event

year	Attendees	winner	origin	Prize money (in $ )
2001	0340	Jay Heimowitz		115,430
2002	0396	Bill Swan		134,000
2003	0378	Ron Rose		130.060
2004	0519	Gary Gibbs		136.960
2005	0825	Paul McKinney		202.725
2006	1184	Clare Miller		247.814
2007	1882	Ernest Bennett		348.423
2008	2218	Dan Lacourse		368,832
2009	2707	Michael Davis		437.358
2010	3142	Harold Angle		487.994
2011	3752	James Hess		557.435
2012	4128	Allyn Jaffrey Shulman		603.713
2013	4407	Kenneth Lind		634,809
2014	4425	Dan Heimiller		627,462
2015	4193	Travis Baker		613.466
2016	4499	Johnnie Craig		538.204
2017	5389	Frank Maggio		617.303
2018	5919	Matthew Davis		662.983
2019	5917	Howard Mash		662,594
2020	because COVID-19 pandemic postponed

Super Seniors

year	Attendees	winner	origin	Prize money (in $)
2015	1533	Jon Andlovec		262.220
2016	1476	James Moore		230,626
2017	1720	James Moore		259.230
2018	2191	Farhintaj Bonyadi		311,451
2019	2650	Michael Blake		359,863
2020	postponed due to COVID-19 pandemic

Web links

• Official World Series of Poker website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Tournament Schedule on the World Series of Poker website, accessed January 3, 2018
2. ↑ James Moore in the World Series of Poker database, accessed January 3, 2018
3. ↑ Farhintaj Bonyadi in the World Series of Poker database, accessed June 20, 2018.