Is Phil Ivey Among the Best High Roller & Seven Card Stud Players in WSOP History?

With each massive buy-in Excessive Curler and Seven Card Stud occasions going down proper now on the 2026 World Sequence of Poker (WSOP), PokerNews has determined to take a deep dive into the historical past of stated codecs on the sequence.

WSOP Excessive Curler Historical past

The WSOP just lately ended its $25,000 Heads-Up Championship, and proper now, the $25,000 No-Restrict Maintain’em Excessive Curler is coming into Day 3. Whereas there are many excessive rollers on this 12 months’s schedule, that wasn’t all the time the case.

The primary “Excessive Curler” WSOP event with a buy-in of $25,000 or extra was the 2006 $50,000 H.O.R.S.E., which has now turn into the $50,000 Poker Gamers Championship, received by Chip Reese for $1,784,640. He prevailed over a stacked area of 143 after an epic seven-and-a-half-hour heads-up battle with Andy Bloch.

It was the one recreation on the town till 2009, when the $40,000 fortieth Anniversary NLH Occasion turned the second excessive curler, though it was a one-time occasion received by Vitaly Lunkin for $1,891,018.

In 2010, the Poker Gamers Championship (PPC) formally joined the Las Vegas competition with a $50,000 buy-in and is now thought of by many to be the de facto world championship.

WSOP Europe joined the celebration in 2013 with the €25,000 NLH Excessive Curler (about $34,603 USD), whereas the primary on-line Excessive Rollers have been the 2020 $25,000 NLHE Poker Gamers Championship and $25,000 Heads-Up NLH: Folks’s Alternative Occasion on GGPoker.

The floodgates opened in 2023 when WSOP Paradise debuted and included two $25,000, one $50,000, and one $100,000 occasions.

$25,000+ Purchase-in Occasions By Yr

Relating to WSOP Excessive Curler bracelets, 11 gamers are tied with two every. The gamers with two excessive curler bracelets are Aleksejs Ponakovs, Alex Foxen, Chad Eveslage, Daniel Cates, Daniel Negreanu, Fedor Holz, Jason Koon, Jonathan Duhamel, Martin Kabrhel, Santhosh Suvarna, and Stephen Chidwick.

Brian Rast, Joao Vieira, and Michael Addamo are tied with three apiece, whereas Michael “The Grinder” Mizrachi and Shaun Deeb are tied for the all-time lead with 4.

Most Excessive Curler Last Tables

Most Excessive Curler Cashes

The gamers with 17 cashes are Probability Kornuth, Christoph Vogelsang, Dan Smith, Justin Bonomo, Martin Kabrhel, Nick Schulman, Scott Seiver, and Shaun Deeb.

Most Excessive Curler Winnings

This remaining checklist is, after all, dominated by outcomes from the three $1,000,000 Massive One for One Drop tournaments. In the event you take away these outcomes, the checklist seems like this:

Most Excessive Curler Winnings With out Massive One for One Drop

In the event you additionally take away the 2024 Paradise Island $500,000 Triton Million, Heath and Lococo drop off the checklist, changed by Joao Vieira and Isaac Haxton.

Historical past of Seven Card Stud Excessive on the WSOP

Seven Card Stud (high-only) was one of many unique video games performed on the World Sequence of Poker (WSOP). Puggy Pearson was named the Seven Card Stud Champion of the 1970 money video games, and adopted up by successful the occasion in 1971 (which was allegedly a money recreation format).

The report for the largest fields in WSOP historical past was set in Seven Card Stud in 1975 (44), 1976 (52), 1977 (83; Women), and 1980 (176).

The Women Championship was Stud from 1977 to 1999. The Combined Doubles was Stud in 4 of its 5 years, and thus the sport peaked at 4 occasions in 1979 and 1981-83, which was later matched from 1991-98.

The occasion bottomed out in 2013 with only a single $2,500 tourney. Since 2014, yearly has had one $1,500 occasion and one $10,000 championship.

WSOP Seven Card Stud occasion information:

Largest Area: 478 in 2006 $1,500 occasion.Most Locations Paid: 61 in 2024 $1,500 occasion.Largest Prize Pool: $1,485,200 in 2008 $10,000 World Championship Seven Card Stud.Largest Prize: $415,856 by Eric Brooks in similar occasion.

Relating to the highest Seven Card Stud (Excessive-Solely) gamers concerning bracelets, remaining tables (ninth place or higher), cashes, and winnings:

17 gamers are tied with two Stud bracelets apiece.The gamers with two bracelets are Barbara Enright, David Chiu, Don Williams, Doyle Brunson, Eli Elezra, Gary “Bones” Berland, Jeff Lisandro, Marty Sigel, Mel Judah, Puggy Pearson, Richard Ashby, Rod Pardey, Sam Mastrogiannis, Starla Brodie, Susie Isaacs, Ted Forrest, and Vasilis Lazarou.Artie Cobb, Johnny Moss, and Males Nguyen are tied with three every for the all-time Stud lead.11 gamers are tied with six Seven Card Stud remaining tables. The eleven gamers with six remaining tables are Bobby Schwing, Cyndy Violette, Esther Rossi, Gene Fisher, Harry Thomas, Jeff Lisandro, Johnny Moss, Rod Pardey, Starla Brodie, Stu Ungar, and Thor Hansen.Poker Corridor of Famer Roger Moore (not the actor) is in third place with seven, whereas Artie Cobb and Males Nguyen are tied for first with eight apiece.

Most Seven Card Stud Excessive Cashes

Most Seven Card Stud Winnings

Dubbed the “World’s Best Unknown WSOP Historian,” Robert Jen has been researching, analyzing, and writing concerning the world’s best recreation, and particularly the World Sequence of Poker (WSOP), since 2013.