I love to watch it. I love to play it.

Poker is the game; No limit Texas Hold 'Em is the name.

Do you know who the past winner's have been? Do you want to? You came to the right place.

Scroll down and see the World Series of Poker winners year by year. 

The first championship in the World Series of Poker was held in 1970.

Below is a list of the winner's and their winnings from 1970-1979.

At right are pictures that I could find of the winner's.

1. 1970-Johnny Moss-no winning's of a pot (awarded by player vote)
2. 1971-Johnny Moss-$30,000
3. 1972-Amarillo Slim Preston-$80,000
4. 1973-Puggy Pearson-$130,000
5. 1974-Johnny Moss-$160,000
6. 1975-Sailor Roberts-$210,000
7. 1976-Doyle Brunson-$220,000
8. 1977-Doyle Brunson-$340,000
9. 1978-Bobby Baldwin-$210,000
10. 1979-Hal Fowler-$270,000 

Here are these years winners with pictures at right.

1. 1980-Stu Ungar-$385,000
2. 1981-Stu Ungar-$375,000
3. 1982-Jack Strauss-$520,000
4. 1983-Tom McEvoy-$580,000
5. 1984-Jack Keller-$660,000
6. 1985-Bill Smith-$700,000
7. 1986-Berry Johnston-$570,000
8. 1987-Johnny Chan-$625,000
9. 1988-Johnny Chan-$700,000
10. 1989- Phil Hellmuth Jr.-$755,000

Here's the poker star's of the years above. Their pictures are at the right.

1. 1990-Mansour Matloubi-$895,000
2. 1991-Brad Daugherty-$1,000,000
3. 1992-Hamid Dastmalchi-$1,000,000
4. 1993-Jim Bechtel-$1,000,000
5. 1994-Russ Hamilton-$1,000,000
6. 1995-Dan Harrington-$1,000,000
7. 1996-Huck Seed-$1,000,000
8. 1997-Stu Ungar-$1,000,000
9. 1998-Scotty Nguyen-$1,000,000
10. 1999-J.J."Noel" Furlong-$1,000,000
11. 2000-Chris Ferguson-$1,500,000

The pot's have really jumped in these last few years. Here are the winner's with picture's.

1. 2001- Carlos Mortensen-$1,500,000
2. 2002-Robert Varkonyi-$2,000,000
3. 2003-Chris Moneymaker-$2,500,000
4. 2004-Greg Raymer-$5,000,000
5. 2005-Joe Hachem-$7,500,000
6. 2006-Jamie Gold-$12,000,000
7. 2007-Jerry Yang-$8,250,000
8. 2008-Peter Eastgate-$9,119,517 

I sure had fun answering this request by Ryan Hupfer.

Hope you all learned something.

Well I'm off to watch an old re-run of the World Series of Poker.

© G.L. Boudonck