All Time Poker Bracelet Winners
Phil Ivey has been branded the ‘Tiger Woods of Poker’ and although he bears a remarkable resemblance to the undisputed King of the Greens, Ivey has a lot more in common with the golfing legend than looks alone. He too is a natural at his chosen profession and even though he doesn’t have the experience of many others on the circuit he never fails to impress with his poker proficiency.
WSOP 2018: Justin Bonomo Wins 3rd Bracelet in The Big One for One Drop For $10 Million, Takes Top Spot in All Time Money List. Seidel is an eight-time WSOP bracelet winner who has made an impressive 35 final tables and whopping 92 cashes, including his 2 nd-place finish in the 1988 Main Event behind Johnny Chan. Seidel won his largest cash payout of almost $2.5 million at the 2011 Aussie Millions Poker Championship $250,000 Super High Roller NLHE event. The buy-in was massive at the time, even topping the $15,000 of the Bellagio’s Doyle Brunson Classic Championship (later the Five Diamond World Poker Classic). While he may not have been a poker legend like Brunson, Chiu had been around poker for years. That included four WSOP bracelets by the time he was playing WPT events. Howard Andrew won the first two events of the 1976 World Series of Poker and was officially the first 'bracelet winner.' While winners of events prior to 1976 are retroactively considered bracelet winners, Howard was technically the first. Since his wins that year the WSOP bracelet has become the most coveted prize in the game.
In recent times he has concentrated on high stakes cash games and is often found at the tables of the Bellagio in Las Vegas. One of his ‘Big Game’ achievements was when he happily appropriated a cool $16 million from Texan billionaire, Andy Beal, in just three days!
Perhaps what makes Ivey a legend in his own time is his success on virtually all the big international poker tours including the World Series of Poker, the World Poker Tour, the European Poker Tour and the failed European Poker Masters. He clearly travels well and is accomplished in most forms of poker, although he does have a propensity for Omaha.
Ivey has captured five WSOP bracelets in the eight years he has been contesting the event and 2002 was arguably his watershed year – he won three bracelets in that single innings and has joined the super ranks of Phil Hellmuth and Ted Forrest, the only other poker players ever to have achieved this feat!
Ivey’s Notable Achievements
Apart from his trio of wins at the 33rd edition of the WSOP he has won the Pot Limit Omaha on two occasions and in his inaugural WSOP outing in 2000 he became the first player in the long history of the tournament to defeat poker prodigy, Amarillo Slim, at the final table
All Time Wsop Bracelet Winners
His successes at the WPT are legendary –in January 2008 he smashed his unenviable duck of seven WPT final tables without a win when he out smarted Phil Hellmuth and Nam Le to capture the LA Poker Classic and nearly $1.6 million in cash!
At EPT Barcelona in 2006 Ivey finished runner-up to Norwegian Bjorn-Erik Glenne and at the London All Star Challenge, the maiden event of the inaugural EPM, he managed a 7th spot in a line-up that included the true greats of the game.
In 2005 he really hit the mother lode when he walked away with the title and the cash prize of the Monte Carlo Millions, only to return a day later to the tables of the Full Tilt Poker Invitational where he again outgunned his adversaries for the $600 000 prize. His rivals included Mike ‘the Mouth’ Matusow, Phil Hellmuth, Gus Hansen, Chris ‘Jesus’ Ferguson, Dave Ulliott and John Juanda – a veritable line-up of stars!
All-time Poker Bracelet Winners
The Bracelets
- 2000 – $2500 Pot Limit Omaha – $195 000
- 2002 – $2500 Seven Card Stud Hi/Lo – $118 440
- 2002 – $2000 S.H.O.E – $107 540
- 2002 – $1500 Seven Card Stud – $132 000
- 2005 – $5000 Pot Limit Omaha – $635 603