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1998 WSOP

The 1998 WSOP, as usual, was held at Binion's Horseshoe. In the main event, 350 players paid $10,000 to enter.

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Scotty Nguyen Champion

This year's WSOP champion was none other than Scotty Nguyen. Nguyen was the first player to knock out two players in one hand at the final table. Nguyen's final challenger was Kevin McBride, who earned over $650,000 for coming in second.

The final hand, one of the more interesting final hands in WSOP history, looked like this:

Nguyen drew a JD 9C.
McBride had a QH 10H.

McBride opened the betting with $50,000 and Nguyen called.

The flop came 8C 9D 9H giving Nguyen three of a kind, and McBride a straight draw. The hand only gets better. Nguyen checked and McBride bet $100,000. Nguyen called. The turn card was an 8H giving McBride a possible flush and straight draw, but Nguyen already had a full house.

"It's All Over Baby"

McBride would need a straight flush. Nguyen checked again, and again McBride bet $100,000. The river came to be an 8S, giving a full house to the board, but Nguyen had a higher full house than the board. Nguyen lured McBride all-in by saying his classic words "You call this one and it's all over baby." McBride called hoping for a split pot, but it never came, and Nguyen was the winner bringing home a cool $1,000,000, and the WSOP main event bracelet.

1998 WSOP Tournaments and Winners

EventWinnerPrizeEntrants
$,10,000 Championship Event Scotty Nguyen $1,000,000 350
$1,000 Women's 7-Card Stud Mandy Commanda $40,000 100
$5,000 Limit Hold'em Patrik Bruel $224,000 112
$5,000 Seven-Card Stud Jan Chen $208,000 104
$3,000 No-Limit Hold'em Ken Buntjer $68,620 242
$5,000 No-Limit 2-7 Draw with rebuys Erik Seidel $132,750 26 (33)
$3,000 Pot-Limit Hold'em Steve Rydel $206,400 172
$3,000 Omaha 8 or Better Paul Rowe $133,200 111
$3,000 Limit Hold'em David Chiu $205,200 171
$2,500 Seven-Card Stud Split Bill Gempel $120,000 120
$2,500 Pot-Limit Omaha with rebuys T.J. Cloutier $136,000 82 (54)
$2,500 Seven-Card Stud Artie Cobb $152,000 152
$2,000 Pot-Limit Hold'em Daniel Negreanu $169,460 229
$2,000 Omaha 8 or Better Chau Giang $150,960 204
$2,000 No-Limit Hold'em Jeff Ross $259,000 350
$1,500 Seven Card Stud Split Tommy Hufnagle $139,305 251
$1,500 Pot-Limit Omaha with rebuys Donnacha O'Dea $154,800 139 (119)
$1,500 Seven-Card Stud Kirk Morrison $148,185 267
$1,500 Limit Omaha Michael Shadkin $109,800 183
$1,500 Razz Doyle Brunson $93,000 155
$2,000 Limit Hold'em Farzad Bonyadi $429,940 581

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