The Poker Player's Championship

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		1,784,640
2007		148	Freddy Deeb		2,276,832
2008		148	Scotty Nguyen		1,989,120
2009		095	David Bach		1,276,802
2010	8 game	116	Michael Mizrachi		1,559,046
2011		128	Brian Rast		1,720,328
2012		108	Michael Mizrachi		1,451,527
2013		132	Matthew Ashton		1,774,089
2014		102	John Hennigan		1,517,767
2015	10 game	084	Mike Gorodinsky		1,270,086
2016	8 game	091	Brian Rast		1,296,097
2017		100	Elior Sion		1,395,767
2018		087	Michael Mizrachi		1,239,126
2019		074	Phillip Hui		1,099,311
2020		because COVID-19 pandemic postponed

Web links

• Official World Series of Poker website

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)