# World Series of Poker 2004

Les World Series of Poker 2004 ont vu le nombre de participants exploser en même temps que le jeu sur Internet. Un amateur qualifié sur internet Greg Raymer remporta le Main Event et la plus grosse récompense alors jamais reversée pour un sport individuel.

## Tournois

| # | Tournoi | Vainqueur | Gain | Finaliste |
| 1 | 500$ Casino Employee's Limit Hold'em | Carl Nessel | 40,000$ | Cory Pocket |
| 2 | 2,000$ No Limit Hold'em | James Vogl | 400,000$ | Shawn Rice |
| 3 | 1,500$ Seven Card Stud | Ted Forrest | 111,440$ | Chad Brown |
| 4 | 1,500$ Limit Hold-em | Aaron Katz | 234,940$ | Richard Gardner-Brown |
| 5 | 1,500$ Omaha Hi-Lo Split | Curtis Bibb | 160,000$ | Paul Phillips |
| 6 | 1,500$ Pot Limit Hold'Em | Minh Nguyen | 155,420$ | Lorne Persons |
| 7 | 1,000$ No-Limit Hold'Em | Gerry Drehobl | 365,900$ | John Juanda |
| 8 | 2,000$ Pot Limit Omaha | Chau Giang | 187,920$ | Robert Williamson III |
| 9 | 1,500$ No Limit Hold 'Em | Scott Fischman | 300,000$ | Joe Awada |
| 10 | 2,000$ Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo Split | Cyndy Violette | 135,900$ | Pete Kaufman |
| 11 | 2,500$ Limit Hold'Em | Eli Balas | 174,440$ | Steve Shkolnik |
| 12 | 2,000$ H.O.R.S.E. | Scott Fischman | 100,200$ | John Cover |
| 13 | 5,000$ No Limit Hold'Em | Thomas Keller | 382,020$ | Martin De Knijff |
| 14 | 1,500$ Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo Split | Hasan Habib | 93,060$ | Tommy Polk |
| 15 | 2,000$ Limit Hold' Em | Daniel Negreanu | 169,100$ | Chris Hinchcliffe |
| 16 | 5,000$ No-Limit Deuce to Seven Draw | Barry Greenstein | 296,200$ | Chris Ferguson |
| 17 | 1,500$ Limit Hold 'Em Shootout | Kathy Liebert | 110,180$ | Kevin Song |
| 18 | 1,500$ No-Limit Hold 'Em Shootout | Phi Nguyen | 180,000$ | Kirill Gerasimov |
| 19 | 2,000$ Omaha Hi-Lo Split | Annie Duke | 137,860$ | Ron Graham |
| 20 | 1,000$ Ladies Limit Hold 'Em | Crystal Doan | 58,530$ | Millie Shiu |
| 21 | 2,000$ Pot Limit Hold 'Em | Antonio Esfandiari | 58,530$ | Phi Nguyen |
| 22 | 5,000$ Omaha Hi-Lo Split | Brett Jungblut | 187,720$ | John Cernuto |
| 23 | 1,500$ No Limit Hold'em | Ted Forrest | 300,300$ | Susan Pritchett |
| 24 | 5,000$ Seven Card Stud | Joe Awada | 221,000$ | Marcel Lüske |
| 25 | 3,000$ Pot Limit Hold'Em | Gavin Griffin | 270,420$ | Garry Bush |
| 26 | 1,500$ Seven Card Razz | T. J. Cloutier | 90,500$ | Dutch Boyd |
| 27 | 1,000$ Deuce to Seven Triple Draw | Farzad Bonyadi | 86,980$ | Trung Ly |
| 28 | 1,000$ Seniors No-Limit Hold'em | Gary Gibbs | 136,960$ | Carl McKelvey |
| 29 | 5,000$ Limit Hold 'Em | John Hennigan | 325,360$ | An Tran |
| 30 | 3,000$ No-Limit Hold'em | Mike Sica | 503,160$ | John Kabbaj |
| 31 | 5,000$ Pot Limit Omaha | Ted Lawson | 500,000$ | Lee Watkinson |
| 32 | 1,500$ A-5 Draw Lowbal | Norm Ketchum | 84,500$ | Barry Greenstein |
| 33 | Tournoi de charité | Michael Kaplan | 10,000$ (charité) |

## Main Event

Il y avait 2576 participants au main event. Chacun a payé son droit d'entrée 10000$ et a la possibilité de remporter le plus gros tournoi de poker dans un casino de tous les temps (à l'époque). De nombreux participants sont des vainqueurs de tournois sur internet.

### Table finale

| Place | Nom | Gain |
| 1er | Greg Raymer | 5,000,000$ |
| 2e | David Williams | 3,500,000$ |
| 3e | Josh Arieh | 2,500,000$ |
| 4e | Dan Harrington | 1,500,000$ |
| 5e | Glenn Hughes | 1,100,000$ |
| 6e | Al Krux | 800,000$ |
| 7e | Matt Dean | 675,000$ |
| 8e | Mattias Andersson | 575,000$ |
| 9e | Michael McClain | 470,400$ |

### Autres performances

| Place | Nom | Gain |
| 10e | Marcel Lüske | 373,000$ |
| 17e | Gary Jones | 175,000$ |
| 18e | Harry Demetriou | 147,500$ |
| 26e | Chris Ferguson | 120,000$ |