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Top 5 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Stats That Will Amaze You
TournamentsNovember 2, 2021·1 min read

Top 5 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Stats That Will Amaze You


The World Series of Poker (WSOP) is a major event in the poker world, and this year has seen some remarkable achievements. Phil Hellmuth won his 16th WSOP bracelet, outlasting 271 players and winning $84,951.

Roland Israelashvili holds the record for the most WSOP cashes with 291, 73 cashes ahead of Arkadiy Tsinis who’s in second place with 218.

Doyle Brunson won the $5,000 No-Limit 2-7 Draw Lowball event for $90,250 and the main event for $220,000 in the 1976 WSOP. Johnny Chan won the Main Event two years in a row, in 1987 for $625,000, and in 1988 for $700,000. Jamie Gold won the largest WSOP Main Event prize pool ever in 2006, taking $12,000,000 from a $82,512,162 prize pool.

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