July 5

• Brad Daugherty [72] b. 1951 Mountain Grove, MO
  1991 WSOP Main Event winner ($1,000,000). 1993 WSOP Main Event 9th place ($24,000).
  Wikipedia | WSOP.com | Hendon

• David Benyamine [51] b. 1972 Paris, France
  Cash game player who won the 2008 $10,000 Omaha Hi/Lo ($535,687). 18 final tables and over $3 million in winnings.
  Wikipedia | WSOP.com | Hendon

• Workaholics Day: From June 2 to June 6, 2010, Phil Laak set a record for consecutive hours playing poker while making a profit. He logged 115 hours with only a 5-minute bankable break every hour.
  {https://www.pokerstrategy.com/news/world-of-poker/Phil-Laak-Breaks-World-Record-for-Longest-Poker-Session_33449/}

• 2005: Cyndy Violette Sets Women's Record With Third Final Table of Year
  Finishes 7th in the $3,000 Limit Hold 'Em for $44,820 after placing 2nd in the $2,000 No-Limit Hold 'Em for $295,970 and 7th in the $5,000 Pot-Limit Hold 'Em for $44,930.

• 2005: Jennifer Harman Sets Record With Fifth Cash of Year
  Finishes 81st in $1,000 No-Limit Hold 'Em for $3,290 to go with cashes in $2,000 Seven-Card Stud Hi/Lo (3rd for $53,903), $5,000 No-Limit Hold 'Em (16th for $15,330), and $1,000 No-Limit Hold 'Em (48th for $5,265).

• 2005: Jack Binion and Crandell Addington Inducted Into Poker Hall of Fame
  Binion became president of the Horseshoe in 1963, helped create the World Series of Poker in 1970, and owned the Horseshoe from 1989 to 2004.
  Addington finished in the final ten of the WSOP Main Event seven times, including second place in 1974 and 1978.

• 2007: Tom Schneider Is WSOP Player of the Year
  Wins two bracelets to beat out Jeff Lisandro.

• 2008: Erick Lindgren Is WSOP Player of the Year
  Cashes five times for over $1.3 million to narrowly edge Barry Greenstein.

• 2009: Phil Hellmuth Enters Main Event Dressed as Julius Caesar
  Hellmuth wears fur stoals, a chest plate, and a wreath crown accompanied by an entourage consisting of ten muses and 50 models in toga-inspired dresses.

• 2010: Huck Seed Wins Tournament of Champions
  Defeats field of 27, including Howard Lederer heads up, to win $500,000 in non-bracelet event.

• 2010: Daniel Alaei Wins $10,000 Pot-Limit Omaha for Third Bracelet
  Defeats field of 346 for $780,599.

• 2013: Eli Elezra Wins $2,500 Deuce-to-Seven Triple Draw for Second Bracelet
  Defeats field of 282, including Daniel Negreanu heads up, for $173,236.

• 2016: David Peters Wins $1,500 No-Limit Hold 'Em for First Bracelet
  Defeats field of 1,860 for $412,557.

• 2018: Phil Hellmuth Enters Main Event Dressed as Thor
  The faux god wears a red cape and wields a hammer and leads a train of 14 models dressed like Wonder Woman.

• 2019: Susan Faber Wins $500 No-Limit Hold 'Em Salute to Warriors to Become Oldest Female to Win Open Event
  71 years old, two decades older than the previous record holder, Vera Richmond, who was the first woman to win an open bracelet in 1982

{ Data is current through January 1, 2023. }