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1994 World Series of Poker

series of poker tournaments

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 22, 2026
Entity authorityQ1784641 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 1994 World Series of Poker (WSOP) was a series of poker tournaments held at Binion's Horseshoe.

Events

There were 20 preliminary events at the 1994 World Series of Poker.

Main Event

There were 268 entrants to the main event. Each paid $10,000 to enter the tournament, with the top 27 players finishing in the money. Since this was the 25th anniversary of the Main Event, the winner received $1,000,000, plus his/her weight in silver, in celebration of the WSOP's silver anniversary.

Final table

* Hamilton also won his weight in silver

In The Money Finishes

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

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “1994 World Series of Poker” as series of poker tournaments. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1994—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where World, Series and Poker can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as series of poker tournaments. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Feb 22, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1784641. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1994.

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This entry incorporates text from “1994 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.