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Carter Phillips won the most recent $1,500 No-Limit Hold’em event at the World Series of Poker early Tuesday morning, overcoming the third-largest field of the tournament series thus far (2,811 entrants) to win $664,130 in prize money and the WSOP gold bracelet.

Larry Wright won the $1,500 Deuce-to-Seven Lowball event at the World Series of Poker on Sunday, collecting his first career WSOP gold bracelet and $101,975.

The well-known Card Player magazine attorney and writer collected $603,713 in prize money.

Timothy Adams, a 26-year-old professional poker player from Burlington, Ont., won the first Four-Handed No-Limit Hold'em event at the World Series of Poker on Saturday, claiming his first WSOP bracelet at the $392,476 first-place prize.

Ylon Schwartz, a former chess master and professional poker player, won his first World Series of Poker gold bracelet early on Saturday morning after topping a field of nearly 900 players in the $1,500 buy-in H.O.R.S.E. tournament to win $267,081.

Gabe Scott, a professional poker player from Norman, Okla., won the $3,000 Pot-Limit Omaha event at the World Series of Poker on Thursday, claiming his first gold bracelet and the $361,797 first-place prize at the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino.

Brian Meinders won the $1,500 buy-in Limit Hold'em Shootout tournament at the World Series of Poker to claim his first WSOP bracelet and $116,118 on Thursday.

Joe Cassidy defeated Scotty Nguyen heads up to claim his first World Series of Poker bracelet and $294,777 on Thursday.

One year after finishing as the runner-up in a World Series of Poker bracelet event, Canadian Simon Charette won his first WSOP bracelet and $567,624 in the $3,000 No-Limit Hold'em Six-Handed event.

Michael Gathy, a Belgian poker pro, won $440,829 and his first World Series of Poker gold bracelet on Wednesday morning.

Randy Ohel, a 26-year-old professional poker player from Las Vegas, won his first WSOP gold bracelet on Wednesday morning at the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas. He won the $2,500 buy-in Deuce-to-Seven Triple-Draw Lowball (Limit) title, collecting a $145,247 in prize money.

Benjamin Scholl, a 26-year-old financial analyst from Trappe, Pa., won the $5,000 Limit Hold'em event early on Tuesday morning at the World Series of Poker held at the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, claiming the $206,760 first-place prize.

Cliff Goldkind, a 24-year-old student from Potomac, Md., won the most recent $1,500 buy-in No-Limit Hold'em event at the World Series of Poker to collect a whopping $559,514 in prize money and his first WSOP gold bracelet at the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino.

Phil Hellmuth won his 12th World Series of Poker bracelet exactly five years to the day after he won his 11th, extending his lead over Johnny Chan and Doyle Brunson, who both have 10 career bracelets, on Sunday night.

Andy Frankenberger, a man whose style has earned derision from some, defeated Phil Ivey, a man with an unorthodox style that has earned him praise, to claim the $10,000 Pot-Limit Hold'em title at the World Series of Poker early on Monday morning.

At the rate Matt Matros is winning gold bracelets these days, he may very well become the all-time World Series of Poker victory leader by 2022.

Adam Friedman, who became known as the "agony of defeat" poster child in the 2005 WSOP Main Event, came from behind to defeat Todd Brunson to claim his first WSOP bracelet and $269,037 on Saturday morning.

Brandon Schaefer, a 31-year-old former online poker pro, won a WSOP gold bracelet and $311,174 just a week before he will head to Alabama to begin flight school in the U.S. Army.

There's an old saying that goes: "Never play poker with a man named 'Doc." At the World Series of Poker, apparently no one listened.