This list of 2006 World Series of Poker (WSOP) results includes statistics, final table results and payouts. The total money paid out in the 2006 events was $156,409,974.

Results Event 1: $500 No Limit Hold 'em--Casino Employees

This event kicked off the 2006 WSOP. It was a $500 buy-in no limit Texas hold 'em tournament reserved for casino employees that work in Nevada.

Number of buy-ins: 1,232 Total Prize Pool: $554,400 Number of Payouts: 101 Winning Hand: 3♣

+ Final TablePlace Name Prize 1st Chris Gros $127,496 2nd Bryan Devonshire $66,528 3rd R.J. Wright $38,531 4th Scott Clark $27,720 5th Christopher Himmenger $22,176 6th Craig Federspiel $19,404 7th David Wortham $16,632 8th Marsha Waggoner $13,860 9th Barry Goldberg $12,474

Event 2: $1,500 No Limit Hold 'em This event was a $1,500 buy-in no-limit Texas hold 'em tournament. It was the first public tournament of the 2006 WSOP.

Number of buy-ins: 2,776 Total Prize Pool: $3,789,240 Number of Payouts: 277 Winning Hand: Q♠

+ Final TablePlace Name Prize 1st Brandon Cantu $757,839 2nd Phong "Mark" Ly $416,816 3rd Drew Rubin $226,597 4th Lee Padilla $176,579 5th Brent Roberts $151,570 6th Don Zewin $126,940 7th Ron Stanley $107,614 8th Dustin Swartz $88,668 9th Juan Carlos Mortensen $71,617

Event 3: $1,500 Pot Limit Hold 'em This event was a $1,500 buy-in pot limit Texas hold 'em tournament. It was a three-day event with a first prize of $345,984.

Number of buy-ins: 1,102 Total Prize Pool: $1,504,230 Number of Payouts: 99 Winning Hand:

+ Final TablePlace Name Prize 1st Rafe Furst $345,984 2nd Rocky Enciso $180,508 3rd Eric Lynch $104,544 4th George Bronstein $75,212 5th Burt Boutin $60,169 6th Can Kim Hua $52,648 7th Richard Chase $45,127 8th John Juanda $37,606 9th Alan Gilbert $33,845

Event 4: $1,500 Limit Hold 'em This event was a $1,500 buy-in limit Texas hold 'em tournament. It was a three-day event with a first prize of $335,289.

Number of buy-ins: 1,068 Total Prize Pool: $1,457,820 Number of Payouts: 100 Winning Hand: 6♠

+ Final TablePlace Name Prize 1st Kianoush Abolfathi $335,289 2nd Eric Buchman $174,938 3rd Josh Schlein $101,318 4th Michele Lewis $72,891 5th Vipul Kothari $58,313 6th Hank Sparks $51,029 7th Patrick Maloney $43,735 8th Lars Hansen $36,446 9th Matt Elsby $32,801

Event 5: $2,500 No Limit Hold 'em short-handed This event was a $2,500 buy-in no limit Texas hold 'em tournament, with a maximum of six players per table instead of the normal nine. It was a three-day event with a first prize of $475,712.

Number of buy-ins: 824 Total Prize Pool: $1,895,200 Number of Payouts: 90 Winning Hand:

+ Final TablePlace Name Prize 1st Dutch Boyd $475,712 2nd Joe Hachem $256,800 3rd Jeff Knight $153,511 4th Mike Goodman $115,607 5th Pete Hassett $91,917 6th David Solomon $68,227

Event 6: $2,000 No Limit Hold 'em This event was a $2,000 buy-in no limit Texas hold 'em tournament. It was a three-day event with a first prize of $803,274.

Number of buy-ins: 1,919 Total Prize Pool: $3,492,580 Number of Payouts: 155 Winning Hand: Q♣ T♣

+ Final TablePlace Name Prize 1st Mark Vos $803,274 2nd Nam Le $401,647 3rd John Reiss Jr $209,555 4th Thomas Hunt III $160,659 5th Willard Chang $136,211 6th Kevin Peterson $115,285 7th Vanessa Selbst $101,285 8th David Wells $87,315 9th Juan Carlos Mortensen $73,344

Event 7: $3,000 Limit Hold 'em This event was a $3,000 buy-in limit Texas hold 'em tournament. It was a three-day event with a first prize of $343,618.

Number of buy-ins: 415 Total Prize Pool: $1,145,400 Number of Payouts: 46 Winning Hand:

+ Final TablePlace Name Prize 1st William Chen $343,618 2nd Yueqi Zhu $184,409 3rd Henry Nguyen $91,632 4th Karlo Lopez $80,178 5th Danny Ciaramella $68,724 6th Larry Thomas $57,270 7th Allan Puzantyan $45,816 8th Ernie Scherer III $34,362 9th Jeff Lisandro $22,908

Event 8: $2,000 Omaha Hi-low Split This event was a $2,000 buy-in Limit Omaha High-low split. It was a three-day event with a first prize of $341,426.

Number of buy-ins: 670 Total Prize Pool: $1,219,400 Number of Payouts: 65 Winning Hand: 7♣

+ Final TablePlace Name Prize 1st Jack Zwerner $341,426 2nd Rusty Mandap $176,813 3rd Jeff Madsen $97,552 4th Cong Do $85,358 5th Bob Mangino $73,164 6th Robert Collins $60,970 7th Daniel Negreanu $48,776 8th Russell Salzer $36,582 9th Steven Lustig $24,388

This was the first of four top-three finishes for Madsen at this year's WSOP.

Event 9: $5,000 No Limit Hold'em

Number of buy-ins: 622 Total Prize Pool: $2,293,400 Number of Payouts: 63 Winning Hand:

+ Final TablePlace Name Prize 1st Jeff Cabanillas $818,546 2nd Phil Hellmuth Jr $423,893 3rd Eugene Todd $233,872 4th Marcel Lüske $204,638 5th Isabelle Mercier $175,404 6th Thomas Schreiber $146,170 7th Douglas Carli $116,936 8th Vinny Vinh $87,702 9th Danny Smith $58,468

Event 10: $1,500 7 Card Stud

Number of buy-ins: 478 Total Prize Pool: $652,470 Number of Payouts: 40 Winning Hand: K♠ 4♣ 6♠ 4♠

+ Final TablePlace Name Prize 1st David Williams $163,118 2nd John Hoang $110,920 3rd Jack Duncan $71,772 4th Mitchell Ledis $45,673 5th John Cernuto $35,886 6th Ivan Schertzer $29,361 7th Johnny Chan $22,836 8th Matt Hawrilenko $16,312

Event 11: $1,500 Limit Hold'em

Number of buy-ins: 701 Total prize pool: $956,865 Number of Payouts: 72 Winning Hand: 3♠

+ Final TablePlace Name Prize 1st Bob Chalmers $258,344 2nd Tam Ho $135,396 3rd Warren Wooldridge $76,549 4th Thanh Nguyen $66,981 5th Doug Saab $57,412 6th Jan Sjåvik $47,843 7th Graham Duke $38,275 8th Bob Bartmann $28,706 9th David Calla $19,137

Event 12: $5,000 Omaha Hi-low Split This event was a $5,000 buy-in Limit Omaha High-low split. It was a two-day event with a first prize of $398,560.

Number of buy-ins: 265 Total Prize Pool: $1,245,000 Number of Payouts: 26

+ Final TablePlace Name Prize 1st Sam Farha $398,560 2nd Phil Ivey $219,208 3rd Kirill Gerasimov $112,095 4th Mike Henrich $87,185 5th Mike Wattel $74,730 6th Brian Nadell $62,275 7th Jeff King $49,820 8th Jim Ferrel $37,365 9th Ryan Hughes $24,910

Event 13: $2,500 No Limit Hold'em This was a three-day event.

Number of buy-ins: 1,290 Total Prize Pool: $2,967,000 Number of Payouts: 99 Winning Hand: J♣ 8♣

+ Final TablePlace Name Prize 1st Max Pescatori $682,389 2nd Anthony Reategui $356,040 3rd Justin Pechie $206,207 4th Michael Scott $148,350 5th Corey Cheresnick $118,680 6th Tri Ma $103,845 7th Mike Matusow $89,010 8th Terrence Chan $74,175 9th Matt Heinschel $66,578

Event 14: $1,000 No Limit Hold'em with rebuys This was a three-day event.

Number of buy-ins: 752 Number of rebuys: 1,670 Total Prize Pool: $2,317,887 Number of Payouts: 74 Winning Hand: A♣

+ Final TablePlace Name Prize 1st Allen Cunningham $625,830 2nd David Rheem $327,981 3rd Tom Franklin $185,431 4th Steve Wong $162,252 5th John Hoang $139,073 6th Tim Phan $115,894 7th Everett Carlton $92,715 8th Andy Bloch $67,357 9th Alex Jacob $46,358

Event 15: $1,000 Ladies No Limit Hold'em This was a two-day event for women only.

Number of buy-ins: 1,128 Total Prize pool: $1,026,480 Number of Payouts: 99

+ Final TablePlace Name Prize 1st Mary Jones Meyer $236,094 2nd Shanee Barton $123,178 3rd Beatrice Stranzinger $71,340 4th Reka Hallgato $51,324 5th Sue Luckenbaugh $41,059 6th Julie Allen $35,927 7th Devi Ortega $30,794 8th Laurie Scott $25,662 9th Ellie Ahlgren $23,096

2005 winner, actress Jennifer Tilly did not reach the money this year. Mimi Rogers reached 33rd place, winning $5,132.

Event 16: $10,000 Pot-Limit Omaha This was a three-day event.

Number of buy-ins: 218 Total Prize Pool: $2,049,200 Number of Payouts: 27

+ Final TablePlace Name Prize 1st Lee Watkinson $655,746 2nd Mike Guttman $360,659 3rd Mark Dickstein $184,428 4th Rafi Amit $143,444 5th Hasan Habib $122,952 6th Nick Gibson $102,460 7th Jani Vilmunen $81,984 8th Thomas Wahlroos $61,476 9th Mickey Appleman $40,984

Event 17: $1,000 No Limit Hold'em This was a three-day event.

Number of buy-ins: 2,891 Total Prize Pool: $2,630,810 Number of Payouts: 270

+ Final TablePlace Name Prize 1st Jon Friedberg $526,185 2nd John Phan $289,389 3rd Mike Pomeroy $157,322 4th Tom Hawkingberry $122,596 5th Kevin O'Donnell $105,232 6th Corey Chaston $88,132 7th Humberto Brenes $74,715 8th Michael Halford $61,561 9th Thang Luu $49,722

Event 18: $2,000 Pot Limit Hold'em This was a three-day event.

Number of buy-ins: 590 Total Prize Pool: $1,073,800 Number of Payouts: 54

+ Final TablePlace Name Prize 1st Eric Kesselman $311,403 2nd Hyon "Skip" Kim $164,291 3rd Christopher Viox $85,904 4th Kevin Ross $75,166 5th Jason Sagle $64,428 6th Jim McManus $53,690 7th Dustin Holmes $42,952 8th Christopher Black $32,214 9th Harry Thomas $21,476

Event 19: $1,000 Seniors No Limit Hold'em This was a two-day event.

Number of buy-ins: 1,184 Total Prize Pool: $1,077,440 Number of Payouts: 99

+ Final TablePlace Name Prize 1st Clare Miller $247,814 2nd Mike Nargi $129,293 3rd Jake Wells, Jr. $74,882 4th Judith Carlson $53,872 5th David Claiborne $43,098 6th Ron Rose $37,710 7th Doug Schuller $32,323 8th Stan Schrier $26,936 9th John Vorhaus $24,242

Event 20: $50,000 H.O.R.S.E. This was a three-day event alternating between limit Texas Hold'em, Omaha Hi-Lo, Razz, Seven Card Stud and Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo Eight or Better. For the final table, the play was shifted exclusively to no limit hold'em. This event had the highest buy-in ever at the WSOP at the time.

Number of buy-ins: 143 Total Prize Pool: $6,864,000 Number of Payouts: 16

+ Final TablePlace Name Prize 1st David "Chip" Reese $1,716,000 2nd Andy Bloch $1,029,000 3rd Phil Ivey $617,760 4th Jim Bechtel $549,120 5th T. J. Cloutier $480,480 6th David Singer $411,840 7th Dewey Tomko $343,200 8th Doyle Brunson $274,560 9th Patrik Antonius $205,920

Event 21: $2,500 No Limit Hold'em Shorthanded This was a three-day event, with a maximum of six players per table instead of the normal nine.

Number of buy-ins: 740 Total Prize Pool: $1,702,000 Number of Payouts: 72

+ Final TablePlace Name Prize 1st William Chen $442,511 2nd Nath Pizzolatto $238,280 3rd Mike Guttman $139,564 4th Dan Hicks $107,226 5th Alex Bolotin $78,292 6th Harry Demetriou $58,719

This was William Chen's second first-place finish and fifth in-the-money finish in this year's WSOP.

Event 22: $2,000 No Limit Hold'em This was a three-day event.

Number of buy-ins: 1,579 Total Prize Pool: $2,873,780 Number of Payouts: 156

+ Final TablePlace Name Prize 1st Jeff Madsen $660,948 2nd Paul Sheng $330,485 3rd Julian Gardner $172,427 4th Troy Parkins $132,194 5th Robert Cohen $112,077 6th Robert Bright $94,835 7th Michael Chow $83,340 8th Billy Duarte, Jr. $71,845 9th John Shipley $60,349

Jeff Madsen became the youngest bracelet winner, defeating the record set the previous year by Eric Froehlich.

Event 23: $3,000 Limit Hold'em This was a three-day event.

Number of buy-ins: 341 Total Prize Pool: $941,160 Number of payouts: 37

+ Final TablePlace Name Prize 1st Ian Johns $291,755 2nd Jerrod Ankenman $150,586 3rd Javier Torresola $75,293 4th Theo Tran $65,881 5th Mark Newhouse $56,470 6th Tad Jurgens $47,058 7th Brendan Taylor $37,646 8th Benjamin Robinson $28,235 9th Fi Tran $18,823

Event 24: $3,000 Omaha Hi-low Split This was a three-day event.

Number of buy-ins: 352 Total Prize Pool: $971,520 Number of payouts: 36

+ Final TablePlace Name Prize 1st Scott Clements $301,175 2nd Thor Hansen $155,443 3rd Brent Carter $77,772 4th Martin "Dick" Corpuz $68,006 5th Ronald Matsuura $58,291 6th Phil Hellmuth, Jr. $48,576 7th Peter Costa $38,861 8th Stephen Ladowsky $29,146 9th Alex Limjoco $19,430

Event 25: $2,000 No Limit Hold'em Shootout This was a three-day event.

Number of buy-ins: 600 Total Prize Pool: $1,092,000 Number of payouts: 100