The Poker Player's Championship

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The Poker Player's Championship (until 2009: HORSE Championship ) is a poker tournament that is played once a year at the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas . Along with the main event, it is one of the most prestigious events on the tournament schedule.

history

The H.ORSE variant was played from 2006 to 2009 . From 2010 to 2014, the event was held as an 8-game mix and, due to the all-around poker skills required and the buy-in amount of 50,000 US dollars, had smaller fields of participants, mainly made up of the world's best poker players were. In 2015, the tournament was held as a 10-game mix, which led to the lowest player participation of only 84 participants. 8-Game has been played again since the 2016 WSOP .

Previous events

Michael Mizrachi is a record winner with three titles
year variant Attendees winner origin Prize money (in $ )
2006 HORSE 143 David Reese United StatesUnited States 1,784,640
2007 148 Freddy Deeb United StatesUnited States 2,276,832
2008 148 Scotty Nguyen United StatesUnited States 1,989,120
2009 095 David Bach United StatesUnited States 1,276,802
2010 8 game 116 Michael Mizrachi United StatesUnited States 1,559,046
2011 128 Brian Rast United StatesUnited States 1,720,328
2012 108 Michael Mizrachi United StatesUnited States 1,451,527
2013 132 Matthew Ashton United KingdomUnited Kingdom 1,774,089
2014 102 John Hennigan United StatesUnited States 1,517,767
2015 10 game 084 Mike Gorodinsky United StatesUnited States 1,270,086
2016 8 game 091 Brian Rast United StatesUnited States 1,296,097
2017 100 Elior Sion United KingdomUnited Kingdom 1,395,767
2018 087 Michael Mizrachi United StatesUnited States 1,239,126
2019 074 Phillip Hui United StatesUnited States 1,099,311
2020 because COVID-19 pandemic postponed

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Tournament Results: Event # 44: The Poker Players Championship on the World Series of Poker website, accessed on February 19, 2016 (English)
  2. Tournaments on wsop.com, accessed on March 23, 2016 (English)