2001 World Series of Poker

The 2001 World Series of Poker (WSOP) was held at Binion's Horseshoe.

2001 World Series of Poker
Location	Binion's Horseshoe, Las Vegas, Nevada
Dates	April 20 – May 19
Champion
Carlos Mortensen

Preliminary events

Event	Winner	Prize	Runner-up
$500 Casino Employees Limit Hold'em	Travis Jonas (1/1)	$40,200	Jae Kim
$2,000 Limit Hold'em	Nani Dollison (1/2)	$441,440	John Pires
$1,500 Omaha Hi-Lo Split 8 or better	Chris Ferguson (1/3)	$164,735	Men Nguyen (0/4)
$1,500 Seven-card stud	Adam Roberts (1/1)	$146,430	Sal Dimicelli
$2,000 No Limit Hold'em	Phil Hellmuth (1/7)	$316,550	T. J. Cloutier (0/4)
$1,500 Limit Omaha	Eddy Scharf (1/1)	$83,810	Michael Davis
$1,500 Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo Split 8 or better	Barry Shulman (1/1)	$123,820	Dan Heimiller
$1,500 Pot Limit Omaha w/Rebuys	Galen Kester (1/1)	$167,035	Dave Ulliott (0/1)
$2,000 S.H.O.E.	David Pham (1/1)	$140,455	Skip Wilson
$3,000 Limit Hold'em	Jim Lester (1/1)	$233,490	Alex Brenes
$2,500 Seven Card Stud	Paul Darden (1/1)	$147,440	Tom Franklin (0/1)
$2,000 Pot Limit Hold'em	Burt Boutin (1/1)	$193,800	Dave Ulliott (0/1)
$1,500 Razz	Berry Johnston (1/5)	$83,810	Mike Wattel (0/1)
$2,500 Pot Limit Omaha w/Rebuys	Scotty Nguyen (1/3)	$178,480	Jim Lester (0/1)
$2,500 Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo Split 8 or better	Rich Korbin (1/1)	$159,080	Alex Papachatzakis
$1,500 Ace to Five Draw Lowball	Cliff Yamagawa (1/1)	$73,915	David Danheiser
$2,500 Omaha Hi-Lo Split 8 or better	Bob Slezak (1/1)	$173,625	Tony Ma (0/2)
$5,000 No Limit Deuce to Seven Draw w/Rebuys	Howard Lederer (1/2)	$165,870	Freddy Deeb (0/1)
$1,000 Seniors' No Limit Hold'em	Jay Heimowitz (1/6)	$115,430	Garry Pollak
$3,000 Pot Limit Hold'em	Steve Zolotow (1/2)	$243,335	Mike Magee
$5,000 Seven Card Stud	Allen Cunningham (1/1)	$201,760	Michael Danino
$3,000 No Limit Hold'em	Erik Seidel (1/5)	$411,300	Johnny Chan (0/6)
$5,000 Omaha Hi-Lo Split 8 or better	Scotty Nguyen (1/2)	$207,580	Phil Hellmuth (0/7)
$5,000 Limit Hold'em	Hemish Shah (1/1)	$312,340	Tony Duong
$1,000 Ladies' Limit Hold'em/Seven Card Stud	Nani Dollison (2/3)	$41,130	Patty Gallagher

Main Event

There were 613 entrants to the main event. Each paid $10,000 to enter, with the top 45 players finishing in the money. It was the largest poker tournament ever played in a non-online casino at the time. The 2001 Main Event was the first tournament in history to pay out at least $1,000,000 to two players. Phil Hellmuth made the final table and looked to become a two-time Main Event champion, but fell short in fifth place.

Final table

Name	Number of chips (percentage of total)	WSOP Bracelets*	WSOP Cashes*	WSOP Earnings*
Henry Nowakowski	1,076,000 (17.6%)	0	0	0
Carlos Mortensen	873,000 (14.2%)	0	1	$22,575
Phil Hellmuth	859,000 (14.0%)	7	31	$2,561,145
Mike Matusow	767,000 (12.5%)	1	5	$380,220
Phil Gordon	681,000 (11.1%)	0	2	$8,000
Stan Schrier	672,000 (11.0%)	0	0	0
Dewey Tomko	467,000 (7.6%)	3	27	$816,729
Steve Riehle	407,000 (6.6%)	0	0	0
John Inashima	328,000 (5.4%)	0	3	$22,128

*Career statistics prior to the beginning of the 2001 Main Event.

Final table results

Place	Name	Prize
1st	Carlos Mortensen (1/1)	$1,500,000
2nd	Dewey Tomko (0/3)	$1,098,925
3rd	Stan Schrier	$699,315
4th	Phil Gordon	$399,610
5th	Phil Hellmuth (0/7)	$303,705
6th	Mike Matusow (0/1)	$239,765
7th	Henry Nowakowski	$179,825
8th	Steve Riehle	$119,885
9th	John Inashima	$91,190

In The Money Finishes

NB: This list is restricted to In The Money finishers with an existing Wikipedia entry.

Place	Name	Prize
11th	Daniel Negreanu (0/1)	$63,940
20th	Kevin Song (0/1)	$39,960
23rd	Jim Bechtel (0/1)	$39,960
24th	Alex Brenes	$39,960
26th	John Esposito (0/1)	$39,960
27th	Allen Cunningham (0/1)	$39,960
29th	Mike Sexton (0/1)	$30,000
30th	Chris Bjorin (0/2)	$30,000
33rd	Barny Boatman	$30,000
37th	Billy Baxter (0/6)	$20,000
42nd	Bill Gazes	$20,000
44th	David Pham (0/1)	$20,000

External links

• Tournament results at the World Series of Poker