A Look Back at the WSOP Main Events

Now that the number of entrants and first-place prize have been announced for the 2013 World Series of Poker, we thought you'd might like to see how it stacks up in the event's 44-year history.

World Series of Poker Main Events

Year	Entries	Winner	Prize
1970	7	Johnny Moss	N/A
1971	6	Johnny Moss	$30,000
1972	8	Thomas "Amarillo Slim" Preston	$80,000
1973	13	Walter "Puggy" Pearson	$130,000
1974	16	Johnny Moss	$160,000
1975	21	Brian "Sailor" Roberts	$210,000
1976	22	Doyle Brunson	$220,000
1977	34	Doyle Brunson	$340,000
1978	42	Bobby Baldwin	$210,000
1979	54	Hal Fowler	$270,000
1980	73	Stu Ungar	$385,000
1981	75	Stu Ungar	$375,000
1982	104	Jack Straus	$520,000
1983	108	Tom McEvoy	$540,000
1984	132	Jack Keller	$660,000
1985	140	Bill Smith	$700,000
1986	141	Berry Johnston	$570,000
1987	152	Johnny Chan	$625,000
1988	167	Johnny Chan	$700,000
1989	178	Phil Hellmuth, Jr,	$755,000
1990	194	Mansour Matloubi	$895,000
1991	215	Brad Daugherty	$1,000,000
1992	201	Hamid Dastmalchi	$1,000,000
1993	220	Jim Bechtel	$1,000,000
1994	268	Russ Hamilton	$1,000,000
1995	273	Dan Harrington	$1,000,000
1996	295	Huck Seed	$1,000,000
1997	312	Stu Ungar	$1,000,000
1998	350	Scotty Nguyen	$1,000,000
1999	393	Noel Furlong	$1,000,000
2000	512	Chris Ferguson	$1,500,000
2001	613	Juan Carlos Mortensen	$1,500,000
2002	631	Robert Varkonyi	$2,000,000
2003	839	Chris Moneymaker	$2,500,000
2004	2,576	Greg Raymer	$5,000,000
2005	5,619	Joe Hachem	$7,500,000
2006	8,773	Jamie Gold	$12,000,000
2007	6,358	Jerry Yang	$8,250,000
2008	6,844	Peter Eastgate	$9,152,416
2009	6,494	Joe Cada	$8,546,435
2010	7,319	Jonathan Duhamel	$8,944,310
2011	6,865	Pius Heinz	$8,715,638
2012	6,598	Greg Merson	$8,531,853
2013	6,352	?	$8,359,531