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The 1996 World Series of Poker was held at Binion's Horseshoe. The winner of the WSOP in 1996 was none other than the six-foot-seven Huck Seed. For the final event there were 295 players entered, with each participant paying $10,000 to buy in.

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Huck Seed - Quiet yet Intimidating

Seed is a poker character to the fullest, and is known for his quiet yet intimidating presence at the table. Seed once lost a $50,000 friendly bet to Phil Helmuth, who dared Seed to stand in water up to his shoulders for 18 hours. Seed lost the bet and only made it three hours. Seed's final challenger at the 1996 event was Keith Van Horn. Here is how the final hand went:

Seed drew 9D 8D
Van Horn drew KC 8C

Action on the Flop

Van Horn started the action off with raising on his suited clubs, King high, and Huck Seed called the bet. The flop came out 9H 8H 4C. This gave Seed a great advantage with two pair, but Van Horn also had a pair so the hand would be interesting. Seed bet his two pair, and Van Horn re-raised, leading Seed to go all-in, and Van Horn called.

The last two cards were AC and 3S. There was some tension after the turn card, with Van Horn having many possible outs with a Flush Draw, but when the river landed on the wrong black suit, the drama ended with the behemoth Huck Seed walking off with a million dollars, and the coveted WSOP bracelet.

Same Winner Hand as Harrington

Incidentally, the 1995 WSOP winner Harrington drew the same suited 8D 9D hand at the final table, the year before. Just a coincidence. Maybe not. Who knows?

1996 WSOP Tournaments and Winners

Event	Winner	Prize	Entrants
$,10,000 Championship Event	Huck Seed	$1,000,000	295
$1,000 Women's 7-Card Stud	Susie Isaacs	$42,000	105
$5,000 Limit Hold'em	Hieu Ngoc Ma	$236,000	118
$2,500 No-Limit Hold'em	Mel Weiner	$250,315	267
$5,000 Seven-Card Stud	Henry Orenstein	$130,000	65
$2,500 Pot-Limit Hold'em	Barbara Enright	$180,000	180
$2,500 Pot-Limit Omaha with rebuys	Sam Fahra	$145,000	78 (67)
$2,500 Seven-Card Stud	Marty Sigel	$144,000	144
$3,000 Limit Hold'em	Donny Kerr	$200,400	167
$5,000 Chinese Poker with rebuys	Jim Feldhouse	$50,000	10 (10)
$1,500 A-5 Draw	Hans "Tuna" Lund	$71,400	119
$2,500 Omaha 8 or Better	Men "The Master" Nguyen	$110,000	110
$5,000 2-7 Draw with rebuys	Kassem "Freddy" Deeb	$146,250	24 (41)
$2,500 Seven-Card Stud Split	Frank Thompson	$94,000	94
$1,500 Pot-Limit Hold'em	Al Krux	$156,375	278
$1,500 Pot-Limit Omaha with rebuys	Jim Huntley	$168,600	133 (148)
$1,500 No-Limit Hold'em	John Morgan	$227,815	405
$1,500 Omaha 8 or Better	Adeeb Harb	$155,815	277
$1,500 Razz	Randy Holland	$87,000	145
$1,500 Seven-Card Stud Split	"Miami" John Cernuto	$147,000	245
$1,500 Limit Omaha	Dody Roach	$102,600	171
$1,500 Seven-Card Stud	Gary Benson	$148,200	247
$2,000 Limit Hold'em	David Chiu	$396,000	528
$1,500 Chinese Poker	Gregory Grivas	$37,200	62

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