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World Series of Poker Circuit gold ring along with prize money from 2005
The World Series of Poker Circuit events is a series of poker tournaments held annually at a variety of casinos since 2005 as a build-up to the World Series of Poker (WSOP).
All Championship events are competed in no limit Texas hold 'em, preliminary events may be different poker variants.
The following events took place in the build-up to the 2005 World Series of Poker. The money finishers in each event qualified for the World Series of Poker Tournament of Champions.
All tournaments were broadcast as a part of the ESPN coverage of the 2005 WSOP. The first tournament was split over two episodes.
| Date |
Location |
Winner |
Prize |
Runner-up |
Other Finalists |
| January 18, 2005 |
Harrah's Atlantic City |
Nghi Tran |
$780,615 |
Erick Lindgren |
|
| March 2, 2005 |
Harrah's Rincon |
Chris Ferguson |
$655,220 |
Prahlad Friedman |
|
| March 23, 2005 |
Rio All Suite Hotel and Casino Las Vegas |
Doug Lee |
$695,970 |
Jennifer Harman |
|
| May 8, 2005 |
Harrah's Lake Tahoe |
Jeff Lisandro |
$542,360 |
Phil Ivey |
|
| May 28, 2005 |
Harrah's New Orleans |
Walter Chambers |
$787,340 |
Corey Bierria |
- Antonio Esfandiari
- Nick Mao
- Mark Cole
- Harry Cullen Jr
- Imre Leibold
- Marlon Labbe
- Cyril Gittens
|
| August 25, 2005 |
Grand Casino Tunica |
Gregg Merkow |
$561,175 |
Robert Law |
- Sonny Perry
- Jeff Wood
- Steve Rassi
- Bryant King
- Johnny Clements
- John Juanda
- Darrell Struck
|
| September 16, 2005 |
Harrah's Las Vegas |
Chris Ferguson |
$362,088 |
Chade Layne |
|
| November 2, 2005 |
Caesars Indiana |
Vinny Vinh |
$437,760 |
Men Nguyen |
- Ron Hargrove
- Sam Whitt
- Douglas Carli
- Bill Edler
- Marlowe Rowe
- John Smith
- Clinton Keown
|
| November 22, 2005 |
Paris Las Vegas |
Thang Pham |
$453,456 |
J. C. Tran |
|
| December 9, 2005 |
Showboat Casino, Atlantic City |
Chris Reslock |
$335,235 |
John Juanda |
|
| Date |
Location |
Winner |
Prize |
Runner-up |
Other Finalists |
| January 26, 2006 |
Grand Casino Tunica |
Daniel Negreanu |
$755,525 |
Bryant King |
|
| February 17, 2006 |
Harrah's Atlantic City |
Abraham Korotki |
$433,008 |
Brian Jensen |
- Steven Jacobs
- Jody Garaventa
- Herbet Cheng
- Ed Corrado
- Earnest Shepherd
- Harry White
- Jianhua Zhou
|
| March 7, 2006 |
Harrah's Rincon |
Darrell Dicken |
$372,780 |
Weikai Chang |
|
| March 31, 2006 |
Caesars Atlantic City |
Jeffrey King |
$345,708 |
Rep Porter |
- Jamie Ligator
- Ben Bianco
- Eric Panayiotou
- Chris Ferguson
- Herbert Cheng
- Mickey Appleman
- Louie Esposito
|
| May 11, 2006 |
Caesars Palace |
John Spadavecchia |
$648,320 |
Sean McCabe |
|
| May 28, 2006 |
Harrah's New Orleans |
Peter Feldman |
$532,950 |
Gavin Smith |
- Matt Russell
- George Abdallah
- Kenny Brown
- Dana Diephouse
- Allie Prescott
- Benjamin Gordon
- David Babin
|
| June 19, 2006 |
Harrah's Lake Tahoe |
Clint Baskin |
$372,240 |
Brian Fidler |
- Tony Le
- R. C. W. Cheung
- Justin Scott
- J. C. Tran
- Joseph Dubois
- Matt Russell
- Jamin Stokes
|
| September 17, 2006 |
Harrah's Lake Tahoe |
Michael Arents |
$196,005 |
Jerrt Renfroe |
|
| October 4, 2006 |
Grand Casino Tunica |
Mark Smith |
$306,003 |
Manelic Minaya |
- Glyn Banks
- Harold Mahaffey
- Jody Stanfill
- Jae Chang
- Hoyt Lance
- Ryan Lenaghan
- Ronald Huerkamp
|
| November 3, 2006 |
Caesars Indiana |
Chad Batista |
$262,002 |
Hoyt Lance |
- Ed Corrado
- Hilbert Shirey
- Douglas Carli
- Joel Casper
- Robert Arthur
- William Brown
- Thomas Fuller
|
| December 19, 2006 |
Harrah's Atlantic City |
Rick Rossetti |
$368,096 |
Alex Gomez |
- John Racener
- Feming Chan
- Ken Goldin
- Michael Bernstein
- Ray Lin
- Drew Gliem
- Tam Ly
|
| Date |
Location |
Winner |
Prize |
Runner-up |
Other Finalists |
| January 17, 2007 |
Grand Tunica |
Dennis Perry |
$563,402 |
Gioi Luong |
- Lance Allred
- Larry Vance
- Peter Martin
- Michael Mizrachi
- Matt Dean
- Andi Chang
- Elvin Simpson
|
| February 7, 2007 |
Horseshoe Council Bluffs |
Kosta Sengos |
$219,576 |
Paul Kraus |
- Sam Von Duhn
- Jeff Banghart
- Doug Carli
- Larry Vance
- John Kincaid
- Thadd Wolff
- Everett Carlton
|
| February 22, 2007 |
Harrah's Rincon |
Peter Feldman |
$372,780 |
Davidson Matthew |
|
| March 14, 2007 |
Caesars Atlantic City |
Mehrdad Yousefzadeh |
$488,828 |
John McMahon |
- Eugene Fouksman
- Frank Vizza
- Matt Brady
- Rick Austin
- David Fox
- Grant Lang
- Chuck Norris
|
| April 6, 2007 |
Caesars Indiana |
Men Nguyen |
$238,756 |
Young Phan |
- Bryan Sapp
- Tim McCarthy
- Dennis Anness
- Steve Boyle
- George Lusby
- Dean Schultz
- Scott Fischman
|
| May 2, 2007 |
Caesars Las Vegas |
Cory Carroll |
$505,176 |
Justin Pechie |
|
| May 23, 2007 |
Harrah's New Orleans |
Louie Esposito |
$516,801 |
Clint Schafer |
- David Fox
- Phil Gordon
- Anthony Longoria
- JD Estilette
- David McLeroy
- Bobby Wisiak
- Scott Mitchell
|
| September 13, 2007 |
Grand Casino Tunica |
Jordan Morgan |
$216,852 |
Terry Hawkins |
- Jerry Saucier
- Gil George
- Glyn Banks
- Brian Rutland
- Jeff Cohen
- Steve Hyvonen
- Mark Garner
|
| November 2, 2007 |
Caesars Indiana |
Carlos Uz |
$175,034 |
Marc Fratter |
- Vito Casullo Jr.
- Terry Ogle
- Chris Moore
- Chris Viox
- James Lindsey
- Tom Schneider
- Thomas Hover
|
| November 18, 2007 |
Harrah's Lake Tahoe |
Chris Ferguson |
$203,649 |
Dustin Fox |
- Mark Bonsack
- Sylvester Geoghegan
- Gabriel Testa
- Michael Banducci
- George Saca
- Frank Lee
- Travis Erdman
|
| December 5, 2007 |
Harrah's New Orleans |
Andy Philachack |
$247,860 |
Josh Arieh |
- Ted McCollom
- David Fox
- Leonard Pruzansky
- Nic Gellepis
- Bruce MacGregor
- Philip Sparta
- Louie Esposito
|
| December 18, 2007 |
Harrah's Atlantic City |
John Racener |
$379,392 |
Eric Buchman |
- Feming Chan
- Joseph Brooks
- Thomas Fee
- David Fox
- Adrian Velez
- James Nelson
- Sam Skolnik
|
| Date |
Location |
Winner |
Prize |
Runner-up |
Other Finalists |
| January 22, 2008 |
Grand Casino Tunica |
Bart Tichelman |
$428,210 |
Donald Nicholson |
- Giovanni Maracci
- John Devia
- Ben Sabrin
- Mark Garner
- Ryan Young
- Tom Schneider
- Jordan Rich
|
| February 7, 2008 |
Harrah's Rincon San Diego North |
Mike Pickett |
$229,002 |
David Peters |
- Edward Sabat
- Kenny Bedoya
- Christian Avendano
- Gavin Smith
- Lee Watkinson
- Damien Oborne
- Jon Eaton
|
| February 27, 2008 |
Horseshoe Council Bluffs |
Ben Hock |
$169,327 |
Michael Martin |
- Nicholas Manganaro
- Bernard Lee
- Keith Murrell
- Samuel Shamburg
- Dan Jensen
- Ron Koenemann
- Howard Wolper
|
| March 15, 2008 |
Caesars Atlantic City |
Eric Haber |
$431,136 |
Dan Hicks |
- Sumeet Batra
- Soheil Shamseddin
- Steve Greenberg
- Nick Binger
- Scott Blackman
- Steven Merrifield
- Marc Morris
|
| April 14, 2008 |
Caesars Indiana |
Wilbur Futhey |
$180,289 |
Steve Merrifield |
- Dale Poynter
- Douglas Carli
- Ben Hock
- Jason Mann
- Giovanni Marcacci
- Jerry Martin
- Michael Iacovone
|
| May 1, 2008 |
Caesars Las Vegas |
Allen Cunningham |
$499,162 |
Ben Fineman |
|
| May 21, 2008 |
Harrah's New Orleans |
Nick Ceci |
$382,928 |
Timothy Miles |
- Floyd Vanderford
- Gabe Costner
- Jeff Tims
- Lou Esposito
- Chuck Kelley
- Ed Jatho
- Marc Fratter
|
| October 14, 2008 |
Horseshoe Southern Indiana |
Samuel Oberlin |
$143,064 |
Jerry Martin |
- David Kopacz
- Len Ashby
- Joey Couden
- Jamin Stokes
- Derek Whelan
- Dean Schultz
- Ray Lynn
|
| November 2, 2008 |
Harrahs Horseshoe Casino Hammond |
Steve Billirakis |
$208,885 |
Thomas Koral |
- Gary Leibovitz
- Kyle Schertz
- George Dietz
- Sameer Al-Dbhany
- Ravi Raghavan
- Jason DeWitt
- Dustin Woolf
|
| November 16, 2008 |
Harveys Resort & Casino, Lake Tahoe |
Michael Binger |
$181,379 |
Ty Stewart |
- Jake Solis
- Mike McClain
- Tay Nguyen
- Allen Kessler
- Travis Erdman
- Bill Bostick
- Scott Clements
|
| December 16, 2008 |
Harrah's Atlantic City |
Brent Roberts |
$280,940 |
Phillip Reed |
- Kyle Bowker
- Robert McLaughlin
- Allen Bari
- Tim Kelly
- Dwyte Pilgrim
- Scott Zakheim
- Rafael Camejo
|
| February 2, 2009 |
Harrahs Tunica, Robinsonville |
Kai Landry |
$183,974 |
David Dao |
- Matthew Stout
- Leonard Eidson
- Jeremy Byrum
- Mike Leah
- Glenn Hyde
- Brian McCoy
- Frank Wyville
|
