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1991 World Series of Poker

poker tournament series

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 22, 2026
Entity authorityQ1784654 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 1991 World Series of Poker (WSOP) was a series of poker tournaments held at Binion's Horseshoe from April 26 to May 13, 1991. The 1991 World Series featured a then-record 18 bracelet events.

Events

The 1991 WSOP featured 17 preliminary events. Jay Heimowitz became the second player in WSOP history to win bracelets in three different decades.

Main Event

There were 215 entrants to the main event. Each paid $10,000 to enter the tournament, with the top 36 players finishing in the money. This was the first Main Event to offer a top prize of $1,000,000.

Final table

In The Money Finishes

NB: This list is restricted to In The Money finishers with an existing Wikipedia entry.

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“1991 World Series of Poker” enters the record as poker tournament series. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what World, Series and Poker can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “1991 World Series of Poker” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.