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What is the Greatest WSOP Achievement of All-Time?

View Poll Results: What is the Greatest WSOP Achievement of All-Time?

Johnny Moss Main Event Champ 1970, 71 and 74

1 0.66%

Doyle Brunson back to back ME Champ 76, 77, 3rd in 83

0 0%

Stu Ungar ME champ 80, 81, and 1997

10 6.62%

Johnny Chan back to back ME champ 1987 and 88, second place 89

26 17.22%

Dan Harrington 1995 ME champ, 3rd and 4th in 2003 and 2004

11 7.28%

Phil Hellmuth 16 bracelets

64 42.38%

Maurice Hawkins 14 rings Circuit

1 0.66%

Adam Friedman 3-peat Dealer's Choice titles

18 11.92%

Mizrachi 3 non-consecutive 50k buy-in wins

14 9.27%

Jeff Lisandro 3 gold bracelets in one year

6 3.97%

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10-21-2021 , 12:26 PM

Reggie Steer

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What is the Greatest WSOP Achievement of All-Time? Why?

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10-21-2021 , 12:28 PM

Tuma

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Join Date: Aug 2012 Posts: 16,399

Ungar 3-peat

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10-21-2021 , 12:37 PM

Defarse

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Originally Posted by Tuma

Ungar 3-peat

Not consecutive

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10-21-2021 , 01:20 PM

LimpDitka

Pooh-Bah

Join Date: Jun 2010 Posts: 4,024

Id vote Johnny Chan #1 followed by Adam Friedmans recent run.

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10-21-2021 , 02:10 PM

David Lyons

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Join Date: May 2003 Posts: 1,459

Doyle asking to be cashed out of a tournament (!) to protect his anonymity.

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10-21-2021 , 03:30 PM

Punker

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Jan 2003 Posts: 8,352

Where's Mark Newhouse finishing 9th/6352 in the 2013 Main, then tweeting out in 2014 he's not finishing 9th again, then finishing 9th/6683

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10-21-2021 , 03:37 PM

Defarse

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Join Date: Aug 2017 Posts: 895

Joe McKeehen

1/6420 2015 Main Event
2/7862 2014 Monster Stack
3/7361 2018 Millionaire Maker

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10-21-2021 , 03:43 PM

davepoker

centurion

Join Date: Apr 2008 Posts: 193

Ben Lamb
Main events
2009 - 14th/6494
2011 - 3rd/6865
2017 - 9th/7221

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10-21-2021 , 04:02 PM

pwnsall

CFBBPC

Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 65,626

Ungar greatest vorp

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10-21-2021 , 04:23 PM

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News777

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Join Date: Sep 2007 Posts: 765

Chainsaw min cashes, amazing record.

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10-21-2021 , 04:37 PM

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drowski

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Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 1,519

Chainsaw min cashing notwithstanding I think this has got to be stuey. He could have had a fourth too but on the final day decided an empty chair could beat his competition. Unfortunately he was wrong

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10-21-2021 , 04:41 PM

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Dr. Meh

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Join Date: Aug 2013 Posts: 3,351

Maurice Hawkins’ circuit event rings shouldn’t even be an option on this list. They’re just circuit event rings. I wouldn’t even consider them actual WSOP even though they’re the WSOP circuit events.

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10-21-2021 , 04:44 PM

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Dr. Meh

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Joe Cada ME winner in 2009, 5th in 2018, enters and won The Closer in 2018 after finishing 5th in the ME that year. Wouldn’t get my vote but definitely deserves to be an option on the list.

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10-21-2021 , 04:49 PM

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Defarse

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Are Ben Lamb, Joe Cada, and Mark Newhouse the only three to make the final 9 twice post-Moneymaker?

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10-21-2021 , 05:06 PM

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wsopfinaltable

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Join Date: Jul 2019 Posts: 599

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Originally Posted by Defarse

Are Ben Lamb, Joe Cada, and Mark Newhouse the only three to make the final 9 twice post-Moneymaker?

Dan Harrington

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10-21-2021 , 05:45 PM

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PerDoom

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Winning dealers choice 10k 3 times in a row and its not even close. It's literally all pros playing and Adam Friedman won it 3 times in a row.

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10-21-2021 , 05:46 PM

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MikeyBu

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Johnny Chan’s 87/88/89 by far

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10-21-2021 , 06:01 PM

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PokerGoats

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Originally Posted by Defarse

Are Ben Lamb, Joe Cada, and Mark Newhouse the only three to make the final 9 twice post-Moneymaker?

Saout if I remember correctly?

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10-21-2021 , 06:23 PM

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davepoker

centurion

Join Date: Apr 2008 Posts: 193

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Originally Posted by PokerGoats

Saout if I remember correctly?

Does James akhenhead count?
Made the wsop Europe main final table too

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10-21-2021 , 07:11 PM

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PTLou

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Join Date: Nov 2008 Posts: 5,516

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Originally Posted by PerDoom

Winning dealers choice 10k 3 times in a row and its not even close. It's literally all pros playing and Adam Friedman won it 3 times in a row.

100%

If we were just talking back to back in the 10K DC, then OK some of the others mentioned above could compete.

but back to back to back... in a 10K Dealers Choice... playing against that field... in a world of its own . nothing is close,

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10-21-2021 , 07:30 PM

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trob888

Pooh-Bah

Join Date: May 2008 Posts: 5,403

Greg Merson 2012. Won the 10k 6 max then the Main Event immediately after.

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10-21-2021 , 07:32 PM

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MikkeD

old hand

Join Date: Sep 2008 Posts: 1,498

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Originally Posted by PerDoom

Winning dealers choice 10k 3 times in a row and its not even close. It's literally all pros playing and Adam Friedman won it 3 times in a row.

But it's a pretty small field.

I mean, even PH can come second........

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10-21-2021 , 08:38 PM

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easyfnmoney

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Didn't Phil Hellmuth win 3 bracelets in 3 days in 1993? That's pretty remarkable and not one of the choices listed above.

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10-21-2021 , 09:04 PM

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Reggie Steer

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Originally Posted by easyfnmoney

Didn't Phil Hellmuth win 3 bracelets in 3 days in 1993? That's pretty remarkable and not one of the choices listed above.

Either in 1992 or 93, Hellmuth and Ted Forrest won 3 bracelets a piece while Humberto Brenes won 2. None did it in consecutive days.

I decided that Lisandro's 3 bracelets over a decade later was more important because it was against bigger fields.

The polls topped out at 10 choices.

Cada, Newhouse, Lamb, Merson and McKeehan had to be left out. Mansour Matloubi won the ME in 1990 and made the final 5 in 1993. Hamid Dastmalchi won in 1992 and finished top 6 in 1995. Cloutier and Tuna Lund have had multiple final table finishes in the Main Event. Had to be left out from the poll.

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10-21-2021 , 09:17 PM

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easyfnmoney

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Originally Posted by Reggie Steer

Yeah, I just fact checked myself and I was right.

Hellmuth won:

Event #9: $5,000 Limit Hold'em
$5,000 buy-in 1993/04/28 1st $138,000

Event #8: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em
$1,500 buy-in 1993/04/27 1st $161,400

Event #7: $2,500 No-Limit Hold'em
$2,500 buy-in 1993/04/26 1st $173,000

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