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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

Event	Winner	Prize	Entrants
$,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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