World Series of Poker
Main Event
Since 1972, the Main Event of the WSOP has been the $10,000 buy-in no-limit Texas Hold 'em (NLHE) tournament (in 1971 the buy-in was $5,000 and the inaugural 1970 event was an invitational with winner determined by a vote from the players).

World Series of Poker

Section Title: Main Event
Table Section Text: Since 1972, the Main Event of the WSOP has been the $10,000 buy-in no-limit Texas Hold 'em (NLHE) tournament (in 1971 the buy-in was $5,000 and the inaugural 1970 event was an invitational with winner determined by a vote from the players).

Year	Winner	Winning hand	First place prize (US$)	Entrants	Runner-up	Losing hand

1970	United States Johnny Moss	N/A	N/A	7	N/A	N/A

1971	United States Johnny Moss	N/A	30,000	6	United States Walter "Puggy" Pearson	N/A

1972	United States Thomas "Amarillo Slim" Preston, Jr.	K♥ J♦	80,000	8	United States Walter "Puggy" Pearson	6 6

1973	United States Walter "Puggy" Pearson	A♠ 7♠	130,000	13	United States Johnny Moss	K♥ J♠

1974	United States Johnny Moss	3♥ 3♠	160,000	16	United States Crandell Addington	A♣ 2♣

1975	United States Brian "Sailor" Roberts	J♠ J♥	210,000	21	United States Bob Hooks	J♣ 9♣

1976	United States Doyle Brunson	10♠ 2♠	220,000	22	United States Jesse Alto	A♠ J♦

1977	United States Doyle Brunson	10♠ 2♥	340,000	34	United States Gary Berland	8♥ 5♣

1978	United States Bobby Baldwin	Q♦ Q♣	210,000	42	United States Crandell Addington	9♦ 9♣

1979	United States Hal Fowler	7♠ 6♦	270,000	54	United States Bobby Hoff	A♣ A♥

1980	United States Stu Ungar	5♠ 4♠	385,000	73	United States Doyle Brunson	A♥ 7♠

1981	United States Stu Ungar	A♥ Q♥	375,000	75	United States Perry Green	10♣ 9♦

1982	United States Jack Straus	A♥ 10♠	520,000	104	United States Dewey Tomko	A♦ 4♦

1983	United States Tom McEvoy	Q♦ Q♠	540,000	108	United States Rod Peate	K♦ J♦

1984	United States Jack Keller	10♥ 10♠	660,000	132	United States Byron Wolford	6♥ 4♥

1985	United States Bill Smith	3♠ 3♥	700,000	140	United States T. J. Cloutier	A♦ 3♣

1986	United States Berry Johnston	A♠ 10♥	570,000	141	United States Mike Harthcock	A♦ 8♦

1987	United States Johnny Chan	A♠ 9♣	625,000	152	United States Frank Henderson	4♦ 4♣

1988	United States Johnny Chan	J♣ 9♣	700,000	167	United States Erik Seidel	Q♣ 7♥

1989	United States Phil Hellmuth	9♠ 9♣	755,000	178	United States Johnny Chan	A♠ 7♠

1990	Iran Mansour Matloubi	6♥ 6♠	895,000	194	United States Hans Lund	4♦ 4♣

1991	United States Brad Daugherty	K♠ J♠	1,000,000	215	United States Don Holt	7♥ 3♥

1992	Iran Hamid Dastmalchi	8♥ 4♣	1,000,000	201	United States Tom Jacobs	J♦ 7♠

1993	United States Jim Bechtel	J♠ 6♠	1,000,000	220	United States Glenn Cozen	7♦ 4♥

1994	United States Russ Hamilton	K♠ 8♥	1,000,000	268	United States Hugh Vincent	8♣ 5♥

1995	United States Dan Harrington	9♦ 8♦	1,000,000	273	Canada Howard Goldfarb	A♥ 7♣

1996	United States Huck Seed	9♦ 8♦	1,000,000	295	United States Bruce Van Horn	K♣ 8♣

1997	United States Stu Ungar	A♥ 4♣	1,000,000	312	United States John Strzemp	A♠ 8♣

1998	United States Scotty Nguyen	J♦ 9♣	1,000,000	350	United States Kevin McBride	Q♥ 10♥

1999	Republic of Ireland Noel Furlong	5♣ 5♦	1,000,000	393	United States Alan Goehring	6♥ 6♣

2000	United States Chris Ferguson	A♠ 9♣	1,500,000	512	United States T. J. Cloutier	A♦ Q♣

2001	Ecuador Juan Carlos Mortensen	K♣ Q♣	1,500,000	613	United States Dewey Tomko	A♠ A♥

2002	United States Robert Varkonyi	Q♦ 10♠	2,000,000	631	England Julian Gardner	J♣ 8♣

2003	United States Chris Moneymaker	5♦ 4♠	2,500,000	839	Lebanon Sam Farha	J♥ 10♦

2004	United States Greg Raymer	8♠ 8♦	5,000,000	2,576	United States David Williams	A♥ 4♠

2005	Australia Joe Hachem	7♣ 3♠	7,500,000	5,619	United States Steve Dannenmann	A♦ 3♣

2006	United States Jamie Gold	Q♠ 9♣	12,000,000	8,773	United States Paul Wasicka	10♥ 10♠

2007	United States Jerry Yang	8♦ 8♣	8,250,000	6,358	Canada Tuan Lam	A♦ Q♦

2008	Denmark Peter Eastgate	A♦ 5♠	9,152,416	6,844	Russia Ivan Demidov	4♥ 2♥

2009	United States Joe Cada	9♦ 9♣	8,547,042	6,494	United States Darvin Moon	Q♦ J♦

2010	Canada Jonathan Duhamel	A♠ J♥	8,944,310	7,319	United States John Racener	K♦ 8♦

2011	Germany Pius Heinz	A♠ K♣	8,715,638	6,865	Czech Republic Martin Staszko	10♣ 7♣

2012	United States Greg Merson	K♦ 5♦	8,531,853	6,598	United States Jesse Sylvia	Q♠ J♠

2013	United States Ryan Riess	A♥ K♥	8,361,570	6,352	United States Jay Farber	Q♠ 5♠

2014	Sweden Martin Jacobson	10♥ 10♦	10,000,000	6,683	Norway Felix Stephensen	A♥ 9♥

2015	United States Joe McKeehen	A♥ 10♦	7,683,346	6,420	United States Joshua Beckley	4♣ 4♦

2016	United States Qui Nguyen	K♣ 10♣	8,005,310	6,737	United States Gordon Vayo	J♠ 10♠

2017	United States Scott Blumstein	A♥ 2♦	8,150,000	7,221	United States Dan Ott	A♦ 8♦

2018	United States John Cynn	K♣ J♣	8,800,000	7,874	United States Tony Miles	Q♣ 8♥

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In World Series of Poker, the number of participants grew from 839 in 2003 to 8,773 in 2006.

final_sentence: In World Series of Poker, the number of participants grew from 839 in 2003 to 8,773 in 2006.