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• Brian Rast [42] b. 1981 Denver, CO
  Five bracelets: 2011 $1,500 Pot-Limit Hold 'Em ($227,232), 2011 $50,000 Poker Players Championship ($1,720,328), 2016 $50,000 Poker Players Championship ($1,296,097), 2018 $10,000 No-Limit Deuce-to-Seven Draw ($259,670), & 2021 $3,000 No-Limit Hold 'Em 6-Max ($474,102).
  Wikipedia | WSOP.com | Hendon

• Elizabeth Hille [38] b. 1985 Bergen, Norway
  2012 WSOP Main Event 11th place ($590,442) busting just before Gaelle Baumann.
  WSOP.com | Hendon

• 2009: Mike Sexton Inducted Into Poker Hall of Fame
  Sexton is a WSOP bracelet winner but is better known as the face of the World Poker Tour.

• 2010: Erik Seidel and Dan Harrington Inducted Into Poker Hall of Fame
  Seidel is a 7-time bracelet winner and 1988 Main Event runner-up, while Harrington is the 1995 Main Event champ and four-time Main Event final tablist including back-to-back in 2003 and 2004. [Seidel won another bracelet in 2021.]

• 2011: Pius Heinz Wins 2011 WSOP Main Event
  Defeats field of 6,865, including Martin Staszko heads up, for $8,715,638.

• 2011: Barry Greenstein and Linda Johnson to Be Inducted into Poker Hall of Fame
  Barry Greenstein, the Robin Hood of Poker, is better known for donating his tournament profits to charity, while Johnson, the First Lady of Poker, is an open bracelet winner who published Card Player magazine for eight years and helped found the World Poker Tour and the Tournament Director’s Association. The pair are the Hall's 41st and 42nd inductees as a 40 year minimum age requirement is introduced.

• 2019: Robert Campbell Is WSOP Player of the Year
  Reaches a POY-record 6 final tables to upend Daniel Negreanu, who had been incorrectly deemed the winner due to a data entry error. Last year's winner, Shaun Deeb, actually finishes second.

{ Data is current through January 1, 2023. }