Jan Sorensen Wins $2,500 Pot-Limit Omaha for Denmark's First Bracelet Defeats field of 89 (105 rebuys) for $185,000. Runner-up Brent Carter made a little extra money by striking a heads-up deal that was accepted by Sorensen's backer, angering the Dane who later refused Carter's congratulatory handshake.
Jennifer Harman Traniello Wins $5,000 Limit Hold 'Em to Become First Woman With Two Open Bracelets Defeats field of 113 for $146,250 and ties Annie Duke's record with second final table of year (8th in $2,500 Seven-Card Stud for $5,780).
Phil Hellmuth Last Champ Standing in Main Event Exits in 61st place, 16 spots out of the money.
May 23
Johnny Chan Wins Seventh Bracelet Wins $2,500 Match Play for $34,000, defeating Phil Hellmuth in the heads up final in the unofficial tournament of champions (bracelet required to enter).
$2,500 No-Limit Hold 'Em - Gold Bracelet Match Play (Event #9, began 4/26)
Lyle Berman and Johnny Chan Inducted Into Poker Hall of Fame Berman is a 3-time bracelet winner who reached the 1989 Main Event final table, while Chan is a 7-time bracelet winner who won the WSOP Main Event back-to-back in 1987 and 1988 before falling one sport short in 1989. [Chan added three more bracelets since joining the HOF.]
$10,000 Main Event - No-Limit Hold 'Em (Event #35, began 5/20)
