document_title: History of the Caribbean

question_text: by the early 20th century which foreign country was dominant in the caribbean

question_tokens: by the early 20th century which foreign country was dominant in the caribbean

text: History of the Caribbean

text: Before European contact[edit]

text: The oldest evidence of human settlement in the Caribbean has been found at Ortoiroid sites on Trinidad dating to the mid-6th millennium BC.[1][2] They had reached Hispaniola and Cuba by the mid-5th millennium BCE, where their society is also known as the Casirimoid.[3] The hunter-gatherer Guanahatabey present in western Cuba at the time of Columbus's arrival may have represented a continuation of their culture or more recent arrivals from southern Florida or the Yucatan.

text: The islands were then repopulated by successive waves of invaders travelling south to north from initial bases in the Orinoco River valley. Between 400 and 200 BC, the Saladoid spread north from Trinidad, introducing agriculture and ceramic pottery. Sometime after AD 250, the Barrancoid followed and replaced them on Trinidad. This society's settlements in the Orinoco collapsed around 650 and another group, the Arauquinoid (the later "Taíno" or "Arawaks"), expanded into the area and northward along the island chain. Around 1200 or 1300, a fourth group, the Mayoid (the later "Caribs"), entered Trinidad. They remained dominant until the Spanish conquest.

text: At the time of the European arrival, three major Amerindian indigenous peoples lived on the islands: the Taíno in the Greater Antilles, The Bahamas and the Leeward Islands; the Island Caribs and Galibi in the Windward Islands; and the Ciboney in western Cuba. The Taínos are subdivided into Classic Taínos, who occupied Hispaniola and Puerto Rico, Western Taínos, who occupied Cuba, Jamaica, and the Bahamian archipelago, and the Eastern Taínos, who occupied the Leeward Islands.[4] Trinidad was inhabited by both Carib speaking and Arawak-speaking groups.

text: New scientific DNA studies have changed some of the traditional beliefs about pre-Columbian indigenous history. Juan Martinez Cruzado, a geneticist from the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez designed an island-wide DNA survey of Puerto Rico's people. According to conventional historical belief, Puerto Ricans have mainly Spanish ethnic origins, with some African ancestry, and distant and less significant indigenous ancestry. Cruzado's research revealed surprising results in 2003. It found that, in fact, 61% of all Puerto Ricans have Amerindian mitochondrial DNA, 27% have African and 12% Caucasian.[5]

text: Early colonial history[edit]

text: Soon after the voyages of Christopher Columbus to the Americas, both Portuguese and Spanish ships began claiming territories in Central and South America. These colonies brought in gold, and other European powers, most specifically England, the Netherlands, and France, hoped to establish profitable colonies of their own. Imperial rivalries made the Caribbean a contested area during European wars for centuries. In the Spanish American wars of independence in the early nineteenth century, most of Spanish America broke away from the Spanish Empire, but Cuba and Puerto Rico remained under the Spanish crown until the Spanish–American War of 1898.

text: Spanish conquest[edit]

text: During the first voyage of the explorer Christopher Columbus contact was made with the Lucayans in the Bahamas and the Taíno in Cuba and the northern coast of Hispaniola, and a few of the native people were taken back to Spain. Small amounts of gold were found in their personal ornaments and other objects such as masks and belts. The Spanish, who came seeking wealth, enslaved the native population and rapidly drove them to near-extinction.  To supplement the Amerindian labor, the Spanish imported African slaves. (See also Slavery in the Spanish New World colonies.) Although Spain claimed the entire Caribbean, they settled only the larger islands of Hispaniola (1493), Puerto Rico (1508),  Jamaica (1509), Cuba (1511), and Trinidad (1530). The Spanish made an exception in the case of the small 'pearl islands' of Cubagua and Margarita off the Venezuelan coast because of their valuable pearl beds, which were worked extensively between 1508 and 1530.[6][7]

text: Other European powers[edit]

text: The other European powers established a presence in the Caribbean after the Spanish Empire declined, partly due to the reduced native population of the area from European diseases. The Dutch, the French, and the British followed one another to the region and established a long-term presence. They brought with them millions of slaves imported from Africa to support the tropical plantation system that spread through the Caribbean islands.[8]

text:
Francis Drake was an English privateer who attacked many Spanish settlements.  His most celebrated Caribbean exploit was the capture of the Spanish Silver Train at Nombre de Dios in March, 1573.
British colonization of Bermuda began in 1612. British West Indian colonisation began with St. Kitts in 1623 and Barbados in 1627. The former was used as a base for British colonisation of neighbouring Nevis (1628), Antigua (1632),[9] Montserrat (1632), Anguilla (1650) and Tortola (1672).
French colonization too began on St. Kitts, the British and the French splitting the island amongst themselves in 1625. It was used as a base to colonise the much larger Guadeloupe (1635) and Martinique (1635), St. Martin (1648), St Barts (1648), and St Croix (1650), but was lost completely to Britain in 1713. From Martinique the French colonised St. Lucia (1643), Grenada (1649), Dominica (1715), and St. Vincent (1719).
The English admiral William Penn seized Jamaica in 1655 and it remained under British rule for over 300 years.[10]
Piracy in the Caribbean was widespread during the early colonial era, especially between 1640 and 1680.  The term "buccaneer" is often used to describe a pirate operating in this region.
In 1625 French buccaneers established a settlement on Tortuga, just to the north of Hispaniola, that the Spanish were never able to permanently destroy despite several attempts. The settlement on Tortuga was officially established in 1659 under the commission of King Louis XIV. In 1670 Cap François (later Cap Français, now Cap-Haïtien) was established on the mainland of Hispaniola. Under the 1697 Treaty of Ryswick, Spain officially ceded the western third of Hispaniola[11][12] to France.[13]
The Dutch took over Saba, Saint Martin, Sint Eustatius, Curaçao, Bonaire, Aruba,[14] Tobago, St. Croix, Tortola, Anegada, Virgin Gorda, Anguilla and a short time Puerto Rico, together called the Dutch West Indies, in the 17th century.
Denmark-Norway first ruled part, then all of the present U.S. Virgin Islands since 1672, Denmark sold sovereignty over the Danish West Indies in 1917 to the United States, which still administers them.

text: Huguenot corsairs[edit]

text: During the first three-quarters of the sixteenth century, matters of balance of power and dynastic succession weighed heavily on the course of European diplomacy and war. Europe’s largest and most powerful kingdoms, France and Spain, were the continent’s staunchest rivals. Tensions increased after 1516, when the kingdoms of Castile, León, and Aragon were formally unified under Charles I of Spain, who three years later expanded his domains after his election as Holy Roman Emperor. Now he ruled over the continent’s largest and most powerful confederation of kingdoms, whose territories menacingly surrounded France, like a wide-open mouth about to devour it. In 1521, France went to war with the Holy Roman Empire. Spanish troops routed French armies in France, the Italian Peninsula, and elsewhere, forcing the French Crown to surrender in 1526 and again in 1529. The Italian Wars, as the French-Spanish wars came to be known, reignited in 1536 and again in 1542. Intermittent warring between the Valois monarchy and the Habsburg Empire continued until 1559.[15]

text: French corsair attacks began in the early 1520s, as soon as France declared war on Spain in 1521. At the time, prodigious treasures from Mexico began to cross the Atlantic en route to Spain. French monarch Francis I challenged Spain’s exclusivist claims to the New World and its wealth, demanding to see “the clause in Adam’s will which excluded me from my share when the world was being divided.” Giovanni da Verrazzano (aka Jean Florin) led the first recorded French corsair attack against Spanish vessels carrying treasures from the New World. In 1523, off the Cape of St. Vincent, Portugal, his vessels captured two Spanish ships laden with a fabulous treasure consisting of 70,000 ducats worth of gold, large quantities of silver and pearls, and 25,000 pounds of sugar, a much-treasured commodity at the time.[15]

text: The first recorded incursion in the Caribbean happened in 1528, when a lone French corsair vessel appeared off the coast of Santo Domingo and its crew sacked the village of San Germán on the western coast of Puerto Rico. In the mid-1530s, corsairs, some Catholic but most of them Protestant (Huguenot), began routinely attacking Spanish vessels and raiding Caribbean ports and coastal towns; the most coveted were Santo Domingo, Havana, Santiago, and San Germán. Corsair port raids in Cuba and elsewhere in the region usually followed the rescate (ransom) model, whereby the aggressors seized villages and cities, kidnapped local residents, and demanded payment for their release. If there were no hostages, corsairs demanded ransoms in exchange for sparing towns from destruction. Whether ransoms were paid or not, corsairs looted, committed unspeakable violence against their victims, desecrated churches and holy images, and left smoldering reminders of their incursions.[15]

text: In 1536, France and Spain went to war again and French corsairs launched a series of attacks on Spanish Caribbean settlements and ships. The next year, a corsair vessel appeared in Havana and demanded a 700-ducat rescate. Spanish men-of-war arrived soon and scared off the intruding vessel, which returned soon thereafter to demand yet another rescate. Santiago was also victim of an attack that year, and both cities endured raids yet again in 1538. The waters off Cuba’s northwest became particularly attractive to pirates as commercial vessels returning to Spain had to squeeze through the 90-mile-long strait between Key West and Havana. In 1537–1538, corsairs captured and sacked nine Spanish vessels. While France and Spain were at peace until 1542, beyond-the-line corsair activity continued. When war erupted again, it echoed once more in the Caribbean. A particularly vicious French corsair attack took place in Havana in 1543. It left a gory toll of 200 killed Spanish settlers. In all, between 1535 and 1563, French corsairs carried out around sixty attacks against Spanish settlements and captured over seventeen Spanish vessels in the region (1536–1547).[15]

text: Wars of Religion[edit]

text: While Frenchmen and Spaniards fought one another in Europe and the Caribbean, England sided with Spain, largely because of dynastic alliances. In 1509, Prince Henry of England married Princess Catherine of Aragon and soon thereafter they were crowned king and queen. It was a tortuous marriage, to say the least, and Henry VIII began to separate from Catherine in 1527. When Pope Clement VII refused to annul the marriage, Henry VIII pushed the English Catholic Church to separate from Rome and become the Church of England, free from the pope’s authority. Following Henry VIII’s death in 1547, yet another Anglo-Spanish dynastic marriage was arranged, this time between Spain’s Prince Phillip and Queen Mary I, the Catholic daughter of Anglican Henry VIII. During their brief reign, the Church of England was again subject to the pope’s authority.[15]

text: When Mary I died in 1558, Phillip II ceased to be king of England and England broke from Rome again. Her successor, Elizabeth, actually rejected a plan to continue the Anglo-Spanish dynastic union when she refused to consider marrying Philip; she was to remain virgin and Protestant. As Protestantism spread further in European kingdoms such as England and France and it became predominant in other formerly Catholic nations, religious antagonisms played an increasingly important role in determining war and peace among the nations of Europe. Tensions increased between England and Spain, particularly following the ascent of Anglican Queen Elizabeth to the throne in 1558. The new English monarch’s anti-Catholic zeal mirrored Philip II’s trenchant hatred of the Protestant faith. Protestantism also spread in France and throughout parts of the Holy Roman Empire. By the mid-1560s, two discernible opposing blocs had taken shape: a southern European Catholic bloc led by Spain and a northern European bloc led by England.[15]

text: One of the most valuable ideological weapons of the Reformation and wars against Catholic Spain was the “Black Legend,” the systematic denigration of Spain and its people, culture, and religion. Largely fed by the works of Bartolomé de las Casas, English and Dutch Protestants portrayed Spaniards as backward, dishonest, fanatical, cruel, and lazy. Dutch, English, and German editions of las Casas’ Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies circulated throughout Europe beginning in 1578 with titles such as “Spanish cruelties and tyrannies.” Theodore De Bry, a Protestant, edited, illustrated, and published editions of las Casas’ book and others on related topics and included gruesome engravings depicting Spanish cruelty.[15]

text: Spain’s relations with England further soured upon the crowning of Elizabeth in 1558. She openly supported the Dutch insurrection and aided Huguenot forces in France. After decades of increasing tensions and confrontations in the northern Atlantic and the Caribbean, Anglo-Spanish hostilities broke out in 1585, when the English Crown dispatched over 7,000 troops to the Netherlands and Queen Elizabeth liberally granted licenses for privateers to carry out piracy against Spain’s Caribbean possessions and vessels. Tensions further intensified in 1587, when Elizabeth I ordered the execution of Catholic Mary Queen of Scotts after twenty years of captivity and gave the order for a preemptive attack against the Spanish Armada stationed in Cadiz. In retaliation, Spain organized the famous naval attack that ended tragically for Spain with the destruction of the “invincible” Armada in 1588. Spain rebuilt its naval forces, largely with galleons built in Havana, and continued to fight England until Elizabeth’s death in 1603. Spain, however, had received a near-fatal blow that ended its standing as Europe’s most powerful nation and virtually undisputed master of the Indies.[15]

text: Following the Franco-Spanish peace treaty of 1559, crown-sanctioned French corsair activities subsided, but piratical Huguenot incursions persisted and in at least one instance led to the formation of a temporary Huguenot settlement in the Isle of Pines, off Cuba. English piracy increased during the reign of Charles I, King of England, Scotland, and Ireland (1625–1649) and became more aggressive as Anglo-Spanish relations tensed up further during the Thirty Years’ War. Although Spain and the Netherlands had been at war since the 1560s, the Dutch were latecomers, appearing in the region only after the mid-1590s, when the Dutch Republic was no longer on the defensive in its long conflict against Spain. Dutch privateering became more widespread and violent beginning in the 1620s.[15]

text: English incursions in the Spanish-claimed Caribbean boomed during Queen Elizabeth’s rule. These actions originally took the guise of well-organized, large-scale smuggling expeditions headed by piratical smugglers the likes of John Hawkins, John Oxenham, and Francis Drake; their primary objectives were smuggling African slaves into Spain’s Caribbean possessions in exchange for tropical products. The first instances of English mercantile piracy took place in 1562–63, when Hawkins’ men raided a Portuguese vessel off the coast of Sierra Leone, captured the 300 slaves on board, and smuggled them into Santo Domingo in exchange for sugar, hides, and precious woods. Hawkins and his contemporaries mastered the devilish art of maximizing the number of slaves that could fit into a ship. He and other slave traders methodically packed slaves by having them lay on their sides, spooned against one another. Such was the case of the slave-trading vessel bearing the sub-lime name Jesus of Lübeck, into whose pestilent bowels, in partnership with Elizabeth I, Hawkins jammed 400 African slaves. In 1567 and 1568, Hawkins commanded two piratical smuggling expeditions, the last of which ended disastrously; he lost almost all of his ships and three-fourths of his men were killed by Spanish soldiers at San Juan de Ulúa, off the coast of Veracruz, the point of departure of the fleet of New Spain. Hawkins and Drake barely escaped but Oxenham was captured, convicted of heresy by the Inquisition and burned alive.[15]

text: Many of the battles of the Anglo-Spanish war were fought in the Caribbean, not by regular English troops but rather by privateers whom Queen Elizabeth had licensed to carry out attacks on Spanish vessels and ports. These were former pirates who now held a more venerable status as privateers. During those years, over seventy-five documented English privateering expeditions targeted Spanish possessions and vessels. Drake terrorized Spanish vessels and ports. Early in 1586, his forces seized Santo Domingo, retaining control over it for around a month. Before departing they plundered and destroyed the city, taking a huge bounty. Drake’s men destroyed church images and ornaments and even erected a defensive palisade with wooden images of saints in the hope that the Spanish soldiers’ Catholic fervor would keep them from firing saints as human shields of sorts.[15]

text: Slavery[edit]

text: The development of agriculture in the Caribbean required a large workforce of manual labourers, which the Europeans found by taking advantage of the slave trade in Africa. The Atlantic slave trade brought African slaves to British, Dutch, French, Portuguese and Spanish colonies in the Americas, including the Caribbean. Slaves were brought to the Caribbean from the early 16th century until the end of the 19th century. The majority of slaves were brought to the Caribbean colonies between 1701 and 1810. Also in 1816 there was a slave revolution in the colony of Barbados.[17]

text: The following table lists the number of slaves brought into some of the Caribbean colonies:[18]

text:
Caribbean colonizer
1492–1700
1701–1810
1811–1870
Total number of slaves imported

British Caribbean
263,700
1,401,300
—
1,665,000

Dutch Caribbean
40,000
460,000
—
500,000

French Caribbean
155,800
1,348,400
96,000
1,600,200

text: Abolitionists in the Americas and in Europe became vocal opponents of the slave trade throughout the 19th century. The importation of slaves to the colonies was often outlawed years before the end of the institution of slavery itself. It was well into the 19th century before many slaves in the Caribbean were legally free. The trade in slaves was abolished in the British Empire through the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act in 1807. Men, women and children who were already enslaved in the British Empire remained slaves, however, until Britain passed the Slavery Abolition Act in 1833. When the Slavery Abolition Act came into force in 1834, roughly 700,000 slaves in the British West Indies immediately became free; other enslaved workers were freed several years later after a period of forced apprenticeship.[19] Slavery was abolished in the Dutch Empire in 1814. Spain abolished slavery in its empire in 1811, with the exceptions of Cuba, Puerto Rico, and Santo Domingo; Spain ended the slave trade to these colonies in 1817, after being paid ₤400,000 by Britain. Slavery itself was not abolished in Cuba until 1886. France abolished slavery in its colonies in 1848.

text: Marriage, separation, and sale together[edit]

text: "The official plantocratic view of slave marriage sought to deny the slaves any loving bonds or long-standing relationships, thus conveniently rationalising the indiscriminate separation of close kin through sales."[20][a] "From the earliest days of slavery, indiscriminate sales and separation severely disrupted the domestic life of individual slaves."[21] Slaves could be sold so that spouses could be sold separately. "Slave couples were sometimes separated by sale .... They lived as single slaves or as part of maternal or extended families but considered themselves 'married.'"[22] Sale of estates with "stock" to pay debts, more common in the late period of slavery, was criticized as separating slave spouses.[21] William Beckford argued for "families to be sold together or kept as near as possible in the same neighbourhood"[21] and "laws were passed in the late period of slavery to prevent the breakup of slave families by sale, ... [but] these laws were frequently ignored".[21] "Slaves frequently reacted strongly to enforced severance of their emotional bonds",[21] feeling "sorrow and despair",[21] sometimes, according to Thomas Cooper in 1820, resulting in death from distress.[23] John Stewart argued against separation as leading slave buyers to regret it because of "despair[,] ... utter despondency[,] or 'put[ting] period to their lives'".[24] Separated slaves often used free time to travel long distances to reunite for a night[23] and sometimes runaway slaves were married couples.[23] However, "sale of slaves and the resulting breakup of families decreased as slave plantations lost prosperity."[25]

text: Colonial laws[edit]

text: European plantations required laws to regulate the plantation system and the many slaves imported to work on the plantations. This legal control was the most oppressive for slaves inhabiting colonies where they outnumbered their European masters and where rebellion was persistent such as Jamaica. During the early colonial period, rebellious slaves were harshly punished, with sentences including death by torture; less serious crimes such as assault, theft, or persistent escape attempts were commonly punished with mutilations, such as the cutting off of a hand or a foot.[26]

text: Under British rule, slaves could only be freed with the consent of their master, and therefore freedom for slaves was rare. British colonies were able to establish laws through their own legislatures, and the assent of the local island governor and the Crown. British law considered slaves to be property, and thus did not recognize marriage for slaves, family rights, education for slaves, or the right to religious practices such as holidays. British law denied all rights to freed slaves, with the exception of the right to a jury trial. Otherwise, freed slaves had no right to own property, vote or hold office, or even enter some trades.[26]

text: The French Empire regulated slaves under the Code Noir (Black Code) which was in force throughout the empire, but which was based upon French practices in the Caribbean colonies. French law recognized slave marriages, but only with the consent of the master. French law, like Spanish law, gave legal recognition to marriages between European men and black or Creole women. French and Spanish laws were also significantly more lenient than British law in recognizing manumission, or the ability of a slave to purchase their freedom and become a "freeman". Under French law, free slaves gained full rights to citizenship. The French also extended limited legal rights to slaves, for example the right to own property, and the right to enter contracts.[27]

text: Impact of colonialism on the Caribbean[edit]

text: Economic exploitation[edit]

text: The exploitation of the Caribbean landscape dates back to the Spanish conquistadors starting in the 1490s, who forced indigenous peoples held by Spanish settlers in encomienda to mine for gold. The more significant development came when Christopher Columbus wrote back to Spain that the islands were made for sugar development.[28] The history of Caribbean agricultural dependency is closely linked with European colonialism which altered the financial potential of the region by introducing a plantation system. Much like the Spanish exploited indigenous labor to mine gold, the 17th century brought a new series of oppressors in the form of the Dutch, the English, and the French. By the middle of the 18th century sugar was Britain's largest import which made the Caribbean that much more important as a colony.[29]

text: Sugar was a luxury in Europe prior to the 18th century. It became widely popular in the 18th century, then graduated to becoming a necessity in the 19th century. This evolution of taste and demand for sugar as an essential food ingredient unleashed major economic and social changes.[30] Caribbean islands with plentiful sunshine, abundant rainfalls and no extended frosts were well suited for sugarcane agriculture and sugar factories.

text: Following the emancipation of slaves in 1833 in the United Kingdom, many liberated Africans left their former masters. This created an economic chaos for British owners of Caribbean sugar cane plantations. The hard work in hot, humid farms required a regular, docile and low-waged labour force. The British looked for cheap labour. This they found initially in China and then mostly in India. The British crafted a new legal system of forced labour, which in many ways resembled enslavement.[31] Instead of calling them slaves, they were called indentured labour. Indians and southeast Asians began to replace Africans previously brought as slaves, under this indentured labour scheme to serve on sugarcane plantations across the British empire. The first ships carrying indentured labourers for sugarcane plantations left India in 1836. Over the next 70 years, numerous more ships brought indentured labourers to the Caribbean, as cheap and docile labor for harsh inhumane work. The slave labor and indentured labor - both in millions of people - were brought into Caribbean, as in other European colonies throughout the world.[32][33][34][35]

text: The New World plantations were established in order to fulfill the growing needs of the Old World. The sugar plantations were built with the intention of exporting the sugar back to Britain which is why the British did not need to stimulate local demand for the sugar with wages.[dubious  – discuss][further explanation needed] A system of slavery was adapted since it allowed the colonizer to have an abundant work force with little worry about declining demands for sugar.[36] In the 19th century wages were finally introduced with the abolition of slavery. The new system in place however was similar to the previous as it was based on white capital and colored labor.[37] Large numbers of unskilled workers were hired to perform repeated tasks, which made if very difficult for these workers to ever leave and pursue any non farming employment. Unlike other countries, where there was an urban option for finding work, the Caribbean countries had money invested in agriculture and lacked any core industrial base.[38] The cities that did exist offered limited opportunities to citizens and almost none for the unskilled masses who had worked in agriculture their entire lives. The products produced brought in no profits for the countries since they were sold to the colonial occupant buyer who controlled the price the products were sold at. This resulted in extremely low wages with no potential for growth since the occupant nations had no intention of selling the products at a higher price to themselves.[39]

text: The result of this economic exploitation was a plantation dependence which saw the Caribbean nations possessing a large quantity of unskilled workers capable of performing agricultural tasks and not much else. After many years of colonial rule the nations also saw no profits brought into their country since the sugar production was controlled by the colonial rulers. This left the Caribbean nations with little capital to invest towards enhancing any future industries unlike European nations which were developing rapidly and separating themselves technologically and economically from most impoverished nations of the world.

text: Wars[edit]

text: The Caribbean region was war-torn throughout much of colonial history, but the wars were often based in Europe, with only minor battles fought in the Caribbean. Some wars, however, were borne of political turmoil in the Caribbean itself.

text:
Thirty Years' War between the Netherlands and Spain.
The First, Second, and Third Anglo-Dutch Wars were battles for supremacy.
Nine Years' War between the European powers.
The War of Spanish Succession (European name) or Queen Anne's War (American name) spawned a generation of some of the most infamous pirates.
The War of Jenkins' Ear (American name) or The War of Austrian Succession (European name) Spain and Britain fought over trade rights; Britain invaded Spanish Florida and attacked the citadel of Cartagena de Indias in present-day Colombia.
The Seven Years' War (European name) or the French and Indian War (American name) was the first "world war" between France, her ally Spain, and Britain; France was defeated and was willing to give up all of Canada to keep a few highly profitable sugar-growing islands in the Caribbean. Britain seized Havana toward the end, and traded that single city for all of Florida at the Treaty of Paris in 1763. In addition France ceded Grenada, Dominica, and Saint Vincent (island) to Britain.
The American Revolution saw large British and French fleets battling in the Caribbean again. American independence was assured by French naval victories in the Caribbean, but all the British islands that were captured by the French were returned to Britain at the end of the war.
The French Revolutionary War enabled the creation of the newly independent Republic of Haiti. In addition, in the Treaty of Amiens in 1802, Spain ceded Trinidad to Britain.
Following the end of the Napoleonic War in 1814 France ceded Saint Lucia to Britain.
The Spanish–American War ended Spanish control of Cuba (which soon became independent) and Puerto Rico (which became a US colony), and heralded the period of American dominance of the islands.

text: Piracy in the Caribbean was often a tool used by the European empires to wage war unofficially against one another. Gold plundered from Spanish ships and brought to Britain had a pivotal effect on European interest in colonizing the region.

text: Slave rebellions[edit]

text: The plantation system and the slave trade that enabled its growth led to regular slave resistance in many Caribbean islands throughout the colonial era. Resistance was made by escaping from the plantations altogether, and seeking refuge in the areas free of European settlement. Communities of escaped slaves, who were known as Maroons, banded together in heavily forested and mountainous areas of the Greater Antilles and some of the islands of the Lesser Antilles. The spread of the plantations and European settlement often meant the end of many Maroon communities, although they survived on Saint Vincent and Dominica, and in the more remote mountainous areas of Jamaica, Hispaniola, Guadeloupe and Cuba.[40]

text: Violent resistance broke out periodically on the larger Caribbean islands. Many more conspiracies intended to create rebellions were discovered and ended by Europeans before they could materialize.[41] Actual violent uprisings, involving anywhere from dozens to thousands of slaves, were regular events, however. Jamaica and Cuba in particular had many slave uprisings. Such uprisings were brutally crushed by European forces.

text: Caribbean slave uprisings (1522–1844)[edit]

text: The following table lists slave rebellions that resulted in actual violent uprisings:

text:
Caribbean island
Year of slave uprising[41]

Antigua
1701, 1831

Bahamas
1830, 1832–34

Barbados
1816

Cuba
1713, 1729, 1805, 1809, 1825, 1826, 1830–31, 1833, 1837, 1840, 1841, 1843

Curaçao
1795

Dominica
1785-90, 1791, 1795, 1802, 1809-14

Grenada
1765, 1795

Guadeloupe
1656, 1737, 1789,1802

Jamaica
1673, 1678, 1685, 1690, 1730–40, 1760, 1765, 1766, 1791–92, 1795–96, 1808, 1822–24, 1831–32

Marie Galante
1789

Martinique
1752, 1789–92, 1822, 1833

Montserrat
1776

Puerto Rico
1527

Domingue
1791

Saint John
1733-34

Saint Kitts
1639

Saint Lucia
1795-96

Saint Vincent
1769-73, 1795–96

Santo Domingo
1522

Tobago
1770, 1771, 1774, 1807

Tortola
1790, 1823, 1830

Trinidad
1837

text: Independence[edit]

text: Haiti, the former French colony of Saint-Domingue on Hispaniola, was the first Caribbean nation to gain independence from European powers in 1804. This followed 13 years of war that started as a slave uprising in 1791 and quickly turned into the Haitian Revolution under the leadership of Toussaint l'Ouverture, where the former slaves defeated the French army (twice), the Spanish army, and the British army, before becoming the world's first and oldest black republic, and also the second-oldest republic in the Western Hemisphere after the United States. This is additionally notable as being the only successful slave uprising in history. The remaining two-thirds of Hispaniola were conquered by Haitian forces in 1821. In 1844, the newly formed Dominican Republic declared its independence from Haiti.

text: The nations bordering the Caribbean in Central America gained independence with the 1821 establishment of the First Mexican Empire—which at that time included the modern states of Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica. The nations bordering the Caribbean in South America also gained independence from Spain in 1821 with the establishment of Gran Colombia—which comprised the modern states of Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, and Panama.

text: Cuba and Puerto Rico remained as Spanish colonies until the Spanish–American War in 1898, after which Cuba attained its independence in 1902, and Puerto Rico became an unincorporated territory of the United States, being the last of the Greater Antilles under colonial control.

text: Between 1958 and 1962 most of the British-controlled Caribbean was integrated as the new West Indies Federation in an attempt to create a single unified future independent state—but it failed. The following former British Caribbean island colonies achieved independence in their own right; Jamaica (1962), Trinidad & Tobago (1962), Barbados (1966), Bahamas (1973), Grenada (1974), Dominica (1978), St. Lucia (1979), St. Vincent (1979), Antigua & Barbuda (1981), St. Kitts & Nevis (1983).

text: In addition British Honduras in Central America became independent as Belize (1981), British Guiana in South America became independent as Guyana (1966), and  Dutch Guiana also in South America became independent as Suriname (1975).

text: Islands currently under European or U.S. administration[edit]

text: It should be noted that as of the early 21st century, not all Caribbean islands have become independent. Several islands continue to have government ties with European countries, or with the United States.

text: French overseas departments and territories include several Caribbean islands.  Guadeloupe and Martinique are French overseas regions, a legal status that they have had since 1946.  Their citizens are considered full French citizens with the same legal rights. In 2003, the populations of St. Martin and St. Barthélemy voted in favour of secession from Guadeloupe in order to form separate overseas collectivities of France. After a bill was passed in the French Parliament, the new status took effect on 22 February 2007.

text: Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands are officially insular areas of the United States, but are sometimes referred to as "protectorates" of the United States. They are administered by the Office of Insular Affairs (OIA) within the United States Department of Interior.

text: British overseas territories in the Caribbean include:

text:
Anguilla
Bermuda
British Virgin Islands
Cayman Islands
Montserrat
Turks and Caicos

text: Aruba, Curaçao, and Sint Maarten are all presently separate constituent countries, formerly part of the Netherlands Antilles. Along with Netherlands, they form the four constituent countries of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.  Citizens of these islands have full Dutch citizenship.

text: History of U.S. relations[edit]

text: Since the Monroe Doctrine, the United States gained a major influence on most Caribbean nations. In the early part of the twentieth century this influence was extended by participation in The Banana Wars. Areas outside British or French control became known in Europe as "America's tropical empire".

text: Victory in the Spanish–American War and the signing of the Platt amendment in 1901 ensured that the United States would have the right to interfere in Cuban political and economic affairs, militarily if necessary. After the Cuban revolution of 1959 relations deteriorated rapidly leading to the Bay of Pigs Invasion, the Cuban Missile Crisis and successive US attempts to destabilise the island. The US invaded and occupied Hispaniola (present day Dominican Republic and Haiti) for 19 years (1915–34), subsequently dominating the Haitian economy through aid and loan repayments. The United States invaded Haiti again in 1994 and in 2004 were accused by CARICOM of arranging a coup d'état to remove elected Haitian leader Jean-Bertrand Aristide.

text: In 1965, 23,000 U.S. troops landed in the Dominican Republic to quash a military coup in what was the first U.S. military intervention in Latin America in more than 30 years.[42] President Lyndon Johnson had ordered the invasion to stem what he claimed to be a "Communist threat", but the mission appeared ambiguous and was condemned throughout the hemisphere as a return to gunboat diplomacy.[43] In 1983 the United States invaded Grenada to remove populist left-wing leader Maurice Bishop. The United States maintains a naval military base in Cuba at Guantanamo Bay. The base is one of five unified commands whose "area of responsibility" is Latin America and the Caribbean. The command is headquartered in Miami, Florida.

text: As an arm of the economic and political network of the Americas, the influence of the United States stretches beyond a military context. In economic terms, the United States represents a primary market for the export of Caribbean goods. Notably, this is a recent historical trend.  The post-war era reflects a time of transition for the Caribbean basin when, as colonial powers sought to disentangle from the region (as part of a larger trend of decolonization), the US began to expand its hegemony throughout the region.  This pattern is confirmed by economic initiatives such as the Caribbean Basin Initiative (CBI), which sought to congeal alliances with the region in light of a perceived Soviet threat.  The CBI marks the emergence of the Caribbean basin as a geopolitical area of strategic interest to the US.

text: This relationship has carried through to the 21st century, as reflected by the Caribbean Basin Trade Partnership Act.  The Caribbean Basin is also of strategic interest in regards to trade routes; it has been estimated that nearly half of US foreign cargo and crude oil imports are brought via Caribbean seaways.  During wartime, these figures only stand to increase.  It is important to note that the United States is also of strategic interest to the Caribbean. Caribbean foreign policy seeks to strengthen its participation in a global free market economy.  As an extension of this, Caribbean states do not wish to be excluded from their primary market in the United States, or be bypassed in the creation of “wider hemispheric trading blocs” that stand to drastically alter trade and production in the Caribbean Basin.  As such, the US has played an influential role in shaping the Caribbean’s role in this hemispheric market.  Likewise, building trade relationships with the US has always figured in strongly with the political goal of economic security in post-independence Caribbean states.

text: Economic change in the 20th century[edit]

text: The mainstay of the Caribbean economy, sugar, has declined gradually since the beginning of the 20th century, although it is still a major crop in the region. Caribbean sugar production became relatively expensive in comparison to other parts of the world that developed their own sugar cultivation industries, making it difficult for Caribbean sugar products to compete.[44] Caribbean economic diversification into new activities became essential to the islands.

text: Tourism[edit]

text: By the beginning of the 20th century, the Caribbean islands enjoyed greater political stability. Large-scale violence was no longer a threat after the end of slavery in the islands. The British-controlled islands in particular benefited from investments in the infrastructure of colonies. By the beginning of World War I, all British-controlled islands had their own police force, fire department, doctors and at least one hospital. Sewage systems and public water supplies were built, and death rates in the islands dropped sharply. Literacy also increased significantly during this period, as schools were set up for students descended from African slaves. Public libraries were established in large towns and capital cities.[45]

text: These improvements in the quality of life for the inhabitants also made the islands a much more attractive destination for visitors. Tourists began to visit the Caribbean in larger numbers by the beginning of the 20th century, although there was a tourist presence in the region as early as the 1880s. The U.S.-owned United Fruit Company operated a fleet of "banana boats" in the region that doubled as tourist transportation. The United Fruit Company also developed hotels for tourist accommodations. It soon became apparent, however, that this industry was much like a new form of colonialism; the hotels operated by the company were fully staffed by Americans, from chefs to waitresses, in addition to being owned by Americans, so that the local populations saw little economic benefit. The company also enforced racial discrimination in many policies for its fleet. Black passengers were assigned to inferior cabins, were sometimes denied bookings, and were expected to eat meals early before white passengers.[46] The most popular early destinations were Jamaica and the Bahamas; the Bahamas remains today the most popular tourist destination in the Caribbean.

text: Post-independence economic needs, particularly in the aftermath of the end of preferential agricultural trade ties with Europe, led to a boom in the development of the tourism industry in the 1980s and thereafter. Large luxury hotels and resorts have been built by foreign investors in many of the islands. Cruise ships are also regular visitors to the Caribbean.

text: Some islands have gone against this trend, such as Cuba and Haiti, whose governments chose not to pursue foreign tourism, although Cuba has developed this part of the economy very recently. Other islands lacking sandy beaches, such as Dominica, missed out on the 20th-century tourism boom, although they have recently begun to develop eco-tourism, diversifying the tourism industry in the Caribbean.

text: Financial services[edit]

text: The development of offshore banking services began during the 1920s. The close proximity of the Caribbean islands to the United States has made them an attractive location for branches of foreign banks. Clients from the United States take advantage of offshore banking services to avoid U.S. taxation. The Bahamas entered the financial services industry first, and continues to be at the forefront of financial services in the region. The Cayman Islands, the British Virgin Islands, and the Netherlands Antilles have also developed competitive financial services industries.[47]

text: Shipping[edit]

text: Ports both large and small were built throughout the Caribbean during the colonial era. The export of sugar on a large scale made the Caribbean one of the world's shipping cornerstones, as it remains today. Many key shipping routes still pass through the region.

text: The development of large-scale shipping to compete with other ports in Central and South America ran into several obstacles during the 20th century. Economies of scale, high port handling charges, and a reluctance by Caribbean governments to privatize ports put Caribbean shipping at a disadvantage.[48] Many locations in the Caribbean are suitable for the construction of deepwater ports for commercial ship container traffic, or to accommodate large cruise ships. The deepwater port at Bridgetown, Barbados, was completed by British investors in 1961. A more recent deepwater port project was completed by Hong Kong investors in Grand Bahama in the Bahamas.

text: Some Caribbean islands take advantage of flag of convenience policies followed by foreign merchant fleets, registering the ships in Caribbean ports. The registry of ships at "flag of convenience" ports is protected by the Law of the Sea and other international treaties. These treaties leave the enforcement of labour, tax, health and safety, and environmental laws under the control of the registry, or "flag" country, which in practical terms means that such regulations seldom result in penalties against the merchant ship. The Cayman Islands, Bahamas, Antigua, Bermuda, and St. Vincent are among the top 11 flags of convenience in the world. However, the flag of convenience practice has been a disadvantage to Caribbean islands as well, since it also applies to cruise ships, which register outside the Caribbean and thus can evade Caribbean enforcement of the same territorial laws and regulations.[49]

text: Notes[edit]

text: Jump up ^ Plantocratic, of a political order dominated by plantation owners

tag: ol


document_title: 2018 World Series of Poker results

question_text: who won 2018 main event world series of poker

question_tokens: who won 2018 main event world series of poker

root

text: 2018 World Series of Poker results

text: Key[edit]

text:
*

Elected to the Poker Hall of Fame

(#/#)

This denotes a bracelet winner. The first number is the number of bracelets won in the 2018 WSOP. The second number is the total number of bracelets won. Both numbers represent totals as of that point during the tournament.

Place

What place each player at the final table finished

Name

The player who made it to the final table

Prize (US$)

The amount of money awarded for each finish at the event's final table

tag: table

text: Results[edit]

tag: p

text: Event #1: $565 Casino Employees No Limit Hold'em[edit]

text:
2-Day Event: May 30-31
Number of Entries: 566
Total Prize Pool: $283,000
Number of Payouts: 85
Winning Hand: K♣ Q♦

tag: ul

text:
Final Table

Place

Name

Prize

1st
Jordan Hufty (1/1)
$61,909

2nd
Jodie Sanders
$38,246

3rd
Katie Kopp
$26,250

4th
Zachary Seymour
$18,332

5th
Won Kim
$13,031

6th
Tom Booker
$9,432

7th
Thomas Yenowine
$6,953

8th
Skyler Yeaton
$5,222

9th
Jason Pepper
$3,998

text: Event #2: $10,000 No Limit Hold'em Super Turbo Bounty[edit]

text:
1-Day Event: May 30
Number of Entries: 243
Total Prize Pool: $2,284,200
Number of Payouts: 37
Winning Hand: 2♣ 2♠

text:
Final Table

Place

Name

Prize

1st
Elio Fox (1/2)
$393,693

2nd
Adam Adler
$243,323

3rd
Paul Volpe (0/2)
$169,195

4th
Danny Wong
$119,659

5th
Charles Johanin
$86,096

6th
Alex Foxen
$63,042

7th
David Eldridge
$46,993

8th
Taylor Black
$35,671

9th
Joe Cada (0/2)
$27,582

text: Event #3: $3,000 No Limit Hold'em Shootout[edit]

text:
3-Day Event: May 31-June 2
Number of Entries: 363
Total Prize Pool: $980,100
Number of Payouts: 50
Winning Hand: J♥ 3♣

text:
Final Table

Place

Name

Prize

1st
Joe Cada (1/3)
$226,218

2nd
Sam Phillips
$139,804

3rd
Joe McKeehen (0/2)
$101,766

4th
Jack Maskill
$74,782

5th
Harry Lodge
$55,480

6th
Ihar Soika
$41,559

7th
Anthony Reategui (0/1)
$31,435

8th
Taylor Wilson
$24,013

9th
Joshua Turner
$18,526

10th
Jeffrey Trudeau
$14,437

text: Event #4: $1,500 Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better[edit]

text:
4-Day Event: May 31-June 3
Number of Entries: 911
Total Prize Pool: $1,229,850
Number of Payouts: 137
Winning Hand: K♦ 10♠ 4♦ 4♠

text:
Final Table

Place

Name

Prize

1st
Julien Martini (1/1)
$239,771

2nd
Kate Hoang
$148,150

3rd
Mack Lee
$104,016

4th
William Kopp
$74,058

5th
Brandon Ageloff
$53,482

6th
Chad Eveslage
$39,182

7th
Rafael Concepcion
$29,128

8th
Denny Axel
$21,977

9th
Tammer Ilcaffas
$16,832

text: Event #5: $100,000 No Limit Hold'em High Roller[edit]

text:
4-Day Event: June 1-4
Number of Entries: 105
Total Prize Pool: $10,185,000
Number of Payouts: 16
Winning Hand: Q♣ 8♠

text:
Final Table

Place

Name

Prize

1st
Nick Petrangelo (1/2)
$2,910,227

2nd
Elio Fox (1/2)
$1,798,658

3rd
Aymon Hata
$1,247,230

4th
Andreas Eiler
$886,793

5th
Bryn Kenney (0/1)
$646,927

6th
Stephen Chidwick
$484,551

7th
Jason Koon
$372,894

8th
Adrián Mateos (0/3)
$295,066

text: Event #6: $365 Giant No Limit Hold'em[edit]

text:
7-Day Event: June 1, 8, 15, 22, 29-July 1
Number of Entries: 8,920
Total Prize Pool: $2,676,000
Number of Payouts: 1,797
Winning Hand: K♦ 10♦

text:
Final Table

Place

Name

Prize

1st
Jeremy Perrin (1/1)
$250,000

2nd
Luis Vazquez
$154,512

3rd
Svetlozar Nestorov
$117,531

4th
Renato Kaneoya
$89,686

5th
Alexander Lakhov
$68,605

6th
Kevin Rines
$52,721

7th
Lawrence Chan
$40,627

8th
Matthew Smith
$31,403

9th
Daniel Fuhs (0/1)
$24,353

text: Event #7: $565 Colossus No Limit Hold'em[edit]

text:
6-Day Event: June 2-7
Number of Entries: 13,070
Total Prize Pool: $6,535,000
Number of Payouts: 1,754
Winning Hand: A♦ J♥

text:
Final Table

Place

Name

Prize

1st
Roberly Felicio (1/1)
$1,000,000

2nd
Sang Liu
$500,000

3rd
Joel Wurtzel
$300,000

4th
Scott Margereson
$220,040

5th
Timothy Miles
$166,091

6th
Song Choe
$126,158

7th
Gunther Dumsky
$96,431

8th
John Racener (0/1)
$74,178

9th
Steven Jones
$57,425

text: Event #8: $2,500 Mixed Triple Draw Lowball[edit]

text:
3-Day Event: June 4-6
Number of Entries: 321
Total Prize Pool: $722,250
Number of Payouts: 49
Winning Hand: J♠ 5♣ 3♦ A♥
Note: Includes A-5, 2-7 and Badugi

text:
Final Table

Place

Name

Prize

1st
Johannes Becker (1/1)
$180,455

2nd
Scott Seiver (0/1)
$111,516

3rd
Jesse Hampton
$71,547

4th
Chris Vitch (0/2)
$47,166

5th
George Trigeorgis
$31,973

6th
Luis Velador (0/2)
$22,304

text: Event #9: $10,000 Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better Championship[edit]

text:
4-Day Event: June 3-6
Number of Entries: 169
Total Prize Pool: $1,588,600
Number of Payouts: 26
Winning Hand: A♦ 10♠ 8♥ 3♥

text:
Final Table

Place

Name

Prize

1st
Paul Volpe (1/3)
$417,921

2nd
Eli Elezra (0/3)
$258,297

3rd
Adam Coats
$181,374

4th
Kyle Miaso
$129,648

5th
Viacheslav Zhukov (0/2)
$94,370

6th
Dustin Dirksen
$69,971

7th
Robert Mizrachi (0/4)
$52,866

8th
Daniel Zack
$40,715

9th
Per Hildebrand
$31,977

text: Event #10: $365 WSOP.com Online No Limit Hold'em[edit]

text:
1-Day Event: June 3
Number of Entries: 2,972
Total Prize Pool: $974,816
Number of Payouts: 333
Winning Hand: 10♦ 9♦

text:
Final Table

Place

Name

Prize

1st
William Reymond (1/1)
$154,996

2nd
Shawn Stroke
$94,265

3rd
Stephen Buell
$69,017

4th
Ryan Belz
$50,593

5th
Elliott Kampen
$37,530

6th
Josh King
$27,977

7th
Anthony Spinella (0/1)
$21,251

8th
Michael Hauptman
$16,279

9th
Jennifer Miller
$12,478

text: Event #11: $365 Giant Pot Limit Omaha[edit]

text:
7-Day Event: June 3, 10, 17, 24, July 1-3
Number of Entries: 3,250
Total Prize Pool: $975,000
Number of Payouts: 464
Winning Hand: A♠ A♣ K♦ 10♣

text:
Final Table

Place

Name

Prize

1st
Tim Andrew (1/1)
$116,015

2nd
Pete Arroyos
$71,703

3rd
Robert Cicchelli
$53,709

4th
Sandeep Pulusani (0/1)
$40,379

5th
Michael Mizrachi (1/4)
$30,461

6th
James Sievers
$23,076

7th
Kevin Nomberto
$17,541

8th
Raymond Walton
$13,384

9th
Srinivas Balasubramanian
$10,250

text: Event #12: $1,500 Dealers Choice 6-Handed[edit]

text:
3-Day Event: June 4-6
Number of Entries: 406
Total Prize Pool: $548,100
Number of Payouts: 61
Winning Hand: A♥ A♠ 8♠ 7♠ 6♦ (Big O)

text:
Final Table

Place

Name

Prize

1st
Jeremy Harkin (1/1)
$129,882

2nd
Frankie O'Dell (0/2)
$80,256

3rd
George Trigeorgis
$52,130

4th
Anthony Arvidson
$34,700

5th
James Woods
$23,686

6th
Scott Abrams
$16,589

text: Event #13: $1,500 Big Blind Antes No Limit Hold'em[edit]

text:
4-Day Event: June 5-8
Number of Entries: 1,306
Total Prize Pool: $1,763,100
Number of Payouts: 196
Winning Hand: A♣ J♠

text:
Final Table

Place

Name

Prize

1st
Benjamin Moon (1/1)
$315,346

2nd
Romain Lewis
$194,837

3rd
Colin Robinson
$138,938

4th
Steven Snyder
$100,268

5th
Nhathanh Nguyen
$73,242

6th
Bohdan Slyvinskyi
$54,160

7th
Eric Polirer
$40,549

8th
Benjamin Ho
$30,742

9th
Dutch Boyd (0/3)
$23,605

text: Event #14: $1,500 No Limit 2-7 Lowball Draw[edit]

text:
3-Day Event: June 5-7
Number of Entries: 260
Total Prize Pool: $351,000
Number of Payouts: 39
Winning Hand: 9♥ 7♠ 6♦ 4♣ 3♠

text:
Final Table

Place

Name

Prize

1st
Daniel Ospina (1/1)
$87,678

2nd
Tim McDermott
$54,180

3rd
Shaun Deeb (0/2)
$36,330

4th
Mike Wattel (0/2)
$24,920

5th
James Alexander
$17,494

6th
Brant Hale
$12,576

7th
Michael Gathy (0/3)
$9,263

8th
Matt Szymaszek
$6,996

text: Event #15: $1,500 H.O.R.S.E.[edit]

text:
4-Day Event: June 6-9
Number of Entries: 731
Total Prize Pool: $986,850
Number of Payouts: 110
Winning Hand: 9-2-4-Q-A-4-8 (Razz)

text:
Final Table

Place

Name

Prize

1st
Andrey Zhigalov (1/1)
$202,787

2nd
Timothy Frazin
$125,336

3rd
Bradley Smith
$87,769

4th
Matt Woodward
$62,379

5th
Nicholas Derke
$45,006

6th
Sandeep Vasudevan
$32,971

7th
Scott Clements (0/2)
$24,531

8th
J.W. Smith
$18,541

text: Event #16: $10,000 Heads Up No Limit Hold'em Championship[edit]

text:
3-Day Event: June 6-8
Number of Entries: 114
Total Prize Pool: $1,071,600
Number of Payouts: 8
Winning Hand: 4♥ 4♦

text:
Final Table

Place

Name

Prize

1st
Justin Bonomo (1/2)
$185,965

2nd
Jason McConnon
$114,933

SF
Juan Pardo Dominguez
$73,179

SF
Martijn Gerrits
$73,179

QF
Jan Eric Schwippert
$31,086

QF
Mark McGovern
$31,086

QF
Nicolai Morris
$31,086

QF
Kahle Burns
$31,086

text: Event #17: $1,500 No Limit Hold'em 6-Handed[edit]

text:
4-Day Event: June 7-10
Number of Entries: 1,663
Total Prize Pool: $2,245,050
Number of Payouts: 250
Winning Hand: K♦ 6♣

text:
Final Table

Place

Name

Prize

1st
Ognyan Dimov (1/1)
$378,743

2nd
Antonio Barbato
$233,992

3rd
Nick Schulman (0/2)
$163,785

4th
Ryan D'Angelo (0/1)
$116,118

5th
Joey Weissman (0/1)
$83,396

6th
Yue Du (0/1)
$60,686

text: Event #18: $10,000 Dealers Choice 6-Handed[edit]

text:
3-Day Event: June 7-9
Number of Entries: 111
Total Prize Pool: $1,043,400
Number of Payouts: 17
Winning Hand: 10♣ 3♠ 10♥ 5♠ Q♥ Q♠ A♥ (Stud Hi-Lo)

text:
Final Table

Place

Name

Prize

1st
Adam Friedman (1/2)
$293,275

2nd
Stuart Rutter
$181,258

3rd
Alexey Makarov
$127,487

4th
Chris Klodnicki (0/1)
$90,713

5th
David "ODB" Baker (0/1)
$65,308

6th
Marco Johnson (0/2)
$47,579

text: Event #19: $565 Pot Limit Omaha[edit]

text:
3-Day Event: June 8-10
Number of Entries: 2,419
Total Prize Pool: $1,209,500
Number of Payouts: 354
Winning Hand: K♦ J♣ 9♠ 5♠

text:
Final Table

Place

Name

Prize

1st
Craig Varnell (1/1)
$181,790

2nd
Seth Zimmerman
$112,347

3rd
Omar Mehmood
$81,852

4th
Maxime Heroux
$60,190

5th
Christopher Trang
$44,677

6th
Jonathan Duhamel (0/3)
$33,477

7th
Shaome Yang
$25,325

8th
Jason Lipiner
$19,344

9th
Ilian Li
$14,920

text: Event #20: $5,000 Big Blind Antes No Limit Hold'em[edit]

text:
4-Day Event: June 8-11
Number of Entries: 518
Total Prize Pool: $2,408,700
Number of Payouts: 78
Winning Hand: A♥ A♦

text:
Final Table

Place

Name

Prize

1st
Jeremy Wien (1/1)
$537,710

2nd
David Laka
$332,328

3rd
Eric Blair
$228,307

4th
Jake Schindler
$159,575

5th
John Amato
$113,510

6th
Shawn Buchanan
$82,199

7th
David Peters (0/1)
$60,618

8th
Richard Tuhrim
$45,538

9th
Patrick Truong
$34,862

text: Event #21: $1,500 Millionaire Maker No Limit Hold'em[edit]

text:
6-Day Event: June 9-14
Number of Entries: 7,361
Total Prize Pool: $9,937,350
Number of Payouts: 1,105
Winning Hand: 4♠ 2♠

text:
Final Table

Place

Name

Prize

1st
Arne Kern (1/1)
$1,173,223

2nd
Sam Razavi
$724,756

3rd
Joe McKeehen (0/2)
$538,276

4th
Michael Souza
$402,614

5th
Justin Liberto (0/1)
$303,294

6th
Manuel Ruivo
$230,120

7th
Barny Boatman (0/2)
$175,865

8th
Ralph Massey
$135,383

9th
Sean Marshall
$104,987

text: Event #22: $1,500 Eight Game Mix[edit]

text:
3-Day Event: June 9-11
Number of Entries: 481
Total Prize Pool: $649,350
Number of Payouts: 73
Winning Hand: Q-2-A-6-5-3-2 (Razz)

text:
Final Table

Place

Name

Prize

1st
Philip Long (1/1)
$147,348

2nd
Kevin Malis
$91,042

3rd
Daniel Negreanu* (0/6)
$59,788

4th
John Racener (0/1)
$40,151

5th
Per Hildebrand
$27,587

6th
Nicholas Derke
$19,404

text: Event #23: $10,000 No Limit 2-7 Lowball Draw Championship[edit]

text:
3-Day Event: June 10-12
Number of Entries: 95
Total Prize Pool: $893,000
Number of Payouts: 15
Winning Hand: 9-8-7-6-2

text:
Final Table

Place

Name

Prize

1st
Brian Rast (1/4)
$259,670

2nd
Mike Wattel (0/2)
$160,489

3rd
Dario Sammartino
$114,023

4th
James Alexander
$81,986

5th
Shawn Sheikhan
$59,669

6th
Doyle Brunson* (0/10)
$43,963

7th
John Hennigan (0/4)
$32,796

text: Event #24: $2,620 The Marathon No Limit Hold'em[edit]

text:
5-Day Event: June 11-15
Number of Entries: 1,637
Total Prize Pool: $3,860,046
Number of Payouts: 246
Winning Hand: A♣ K♥

text:
Final Table

Place

Name

Prize

1st
Michael Addamo (1/1)
$653,581

2nd
Mark Sleet
$403,870

3rd
Bart Lybaert
$290,315

4th
Taylor Paur (0/1)
$210,995

5th
Martin Jacobson (0/1)
$155,062

6th
Ying Chan
$115,244

7th
Anton Morgenstern
$86,631

8th
Cate Hall
$65,875

9th
Ihar Soika
$50,678

text: Event #25: $1,500 Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo 8 or Better[edit]

text:
3-Day Event: June 11-13
Number of Entries: 596
Total Prize Pool: $804,600
Number of Payouts: 90
Winning Hand: 4♣ 3♥ 6♠ 5♦ 2♥ 3♦ 5♥

text:
Final Table

Place

Name

Prize

1st
Benjamin Dobson (1/1)
$173,528

2nd
Tim Finne
$107,243

3rd
Jesse Martin (0/2)
$74,324

4th
Richard Monroe
$52,359

5th
Tom McCormick
$37,504

6th
James Nelson
$27,321

7th
Georgios Sotiropoulos (0/1)
$20,248

8th
Peter Brownstein
$15,271

text: Event #26: $1,000 Pot Limit Omaha[edit]

text:
3-Day Event: June 12-14
Number of Entries: 986
Total Prize Pool: $887,400
Number of Payouts: 148
Winning Hand: A♦ 7♦ 7♣ 4♠

text:
Final Table

Place

Name

Prize

1st
Filippos Stavrakis (1/1)
$169,842

2nd
Jordan Siegel
$104,924

3rd
Felipe Ramos
$73,989

4th
Clinton Monfort
$52,879

5th
Peter Klein
$38,309

6th
Pascal Damois
$28,137

7th
Thayer Rasmussen
$20,957

8th
Georgios Karavokyris
$15,832

9th
Robert Cowen
$12,133

text: Event #27: $10,000 H.O.R.S.E.[edit]

text:
3-Day Event: June 12-14
Number of Entries: 166
Total Prize Pool: $1,560,400
Number of Payouts: 25
Winning Hand: J♣ 3♥ (Limit Hold'em)

text:
Final Table

Place

Name

Prize

1st
John Hennigan (1/5)
$414,692

2nd
David "Bakes" Baker (0/2)
$256,297

3rd
Lee Salem
$179,216

4th
Iraj Parvizi
$127,724

5th
Randy Ohel (0/1)
$92,808

6th
Albert Daher
$68,783

7th
Daniel Zack
$52,016

8th
Michael Noori
$40,155

text: Event #28: $3,000 No Limit Hold'em 6-Handed[edit]

text:
4-Day Event: June 13-16
Number of Entries: 868
Total Prize Pool: $2,343,600
Number of Payouts: 131
Winning Hand: A♠ 8♥

text:
Final Table

Place

Name

Prize

1st
Gal Yifrach (1/1)
$461,798

2nd
James Mackey (0/1)
$285,377

3rd
Gary Hasson
$193,716

4th
Aaron Mermelstein
$133,731

5th
Darren Rabinowitz
$93,917

6th
Ana Marquez
$67,116

text: Event #29: $1,500 Limit 2-7 Lowball Triple Draw[edit]

text:
3-Day Event: June 13-15
Number of Entries: 356
Total Prize Pool: $480,600
Number of Payouts: 54
Winning Hand: 9-6-5-3-2

text:
Final Table

Place

Name

Prize

1st
Hanh Tran (1/1)
$117,282

2nd
Oscar Johansson
$72,471

3rd
David Prociak (0/1)
$46,729

4th
Cody Wagner
$30,926

5th
Brian Hastings (0/3)
$21,021

6th
Yong Wang
$14,687

text: Event #30: $1,500 Pot Limit Omaha[edit]

text:
3-Day Event: June 14-16
Number of Entries: 799
Total Prize Pool: $1,078,650
Number of Payouts: 120
Winning Hand: Q♥ Q♣ 8♦ 3♠

text:
Final Table

Place

Name

Prize

1st
Ryan Bambrick (1/1)
$217,123

2nd
Sampo Ryynanen
$134,138

3rd
Tim McDermott
$93,639

4th
Phil Riley
$66,342

5th
Jared Ingles
$47,713

6th
Jody Fayant
$34,843

7th
Danny Woolard
$25,841

8th
Randy White
$19,469

9th
Pushpinder Singh
$14,904

text: Event #31: $1,500 Seven Card Stud[edit]

text:
3-Day Event: June 14-16
Number of Entries: 310
Total Prize Pool: $418,500
Number of Payouts: 47
Winning Hand: 10♣ 9♠ A♥ 4♣ 2♦ 10♦ J♦

text:
Final Table

Place

Name

Prize

1st
Steven Albini (1/1)
$105,629

2nd
Jeff Lisandro (0/6)
$65,282

3rd
Katherine Fleck
$43,765

4th
Chris Ferguson (0/6)
$29,999

5th
Frankie O'Dell (0/2)
$21,035

6th
Paul Sexton
$15,096

7th
Michael Moore (0/1)
$11,095

8th
Esther Rossi
$8,355

text: Event #32: $1,000 Seniors No Limit Hold'em[edit]

text:
4-Day Event: June 15-18
Number of Entries: 5,919
Total Prize Pool: $5,327,100
Number of Payouts: 888
Winning Hand: K♦ 8♦

text:
Final Table

Place

Name

Prize

1st
Matthew Davis (1/1)
$662,983

2nd
Bill Stabler
$409,456

3rd
Scott Hamilton-Hill
$303,859

4th
Gary Friedlander
$227,111

5th
Bill Bennett (0/1)
$170,973

6th
Rachel Delatorre
$129,648

7th
Frank Berry
$99,032

8th
Joseph Schulman
$76,204

9th
Thad Smith
$59,074

text: Event #33: $50,000 Poker Players Championship[edit]

text:
5-Day Event: June 15-19
Number of Entries: 87
Total Prize Pool: $4,176,000
Number of Payouts: 14
Winning Hand: 9♥ 8♥ (No Limit Hold'em)

text:
Final Table

Place

Name

Prize

1st
Michael Mizrachi (1/4)
$1,239,126

2nd
John Hennigan (1/5)
$765,837

3rd
Dan Smith
$521,782

4th
Mike Leah (0/1)
$364,197

5th
Benny Glaser (0/3)
$260,578

6th
Aaron Katz (0/1)
$191,234

text: Event #34: $1,000 Double Stack No Limit Hold'em[edit]

text:
6-Day Event: June 16-21
Number of Entries: 5,700
Total Prize Pool: $5,130,000
Number of Payouts: 855
Winning Hand: K♥ Q♥

text:
Final Table

Place

Name

Prize

1st
Robert Peacock (1/1)
$644,224

2nd
Nicholas Salimbene
$397,908

3rd
Joshua Turner
$294,760

4th
Jacky Wong
$219,952

5th
Ralph Wong
$165,342

6th
Daniel Eichhorn
$125,215

7th
James Ostrowski
$95,538

8th
Pfizer Jordan
$73,446

9th
Takao Shizumi
$56,891

text: Event #35: $1,500 Mixed Omaha[edit]

text:
3-Day Event: June 16-18
Number of Entries: 773
Total Prize Pool: $1,043,550
Number of Payouts: 116
Winning Hand: K♠ K♣ J♣ 9♠

text:
Final Table

Place

Name

Prize

1st
Yueqi Zhu (1/1)
$211,781

2nd
Gabriel Ramos
$130,850

3rd
Carol Fuchs (0/1)
$89,488

4th
Matthew Gregoire
$62,226

5th
Jon Turner
$44,007

6th
Peter Neff
$31,662

7th
Ryan Hughes (0/2)
$23,182

8th
Nathan Gamble (0/1)
$17,279

text: Event #36: $1,000 Super Seniors No Limit Hold'em[edit]

text:
4-Day Event: June 17-20
Number of Entries: 2,191
Total Prize Pool: $1,971,900
Number of Payouts: 329
Winning Hand: 8♠ 8♦

text:
Final Table

Place

Name

Prize

1st
Farhintaj Bonyadi (1/1)
$311,451

2nd
Robert Beach
$192,397

3rd
Paul W. Lee
$140,273

4th
Linda Iwaniak
$103,215

5th
Russell Sutton
$76,655

6th
Alan Denkenson
$57,465

7th
Charles Thompson
$43,489

8th
Neil Henley
$33,227

9th
Bill Fogel
$25,633

text: Event #37: $1,500 No Limit Hold'em[edit]

text:
4-Day Event: June 18-21
Number of Entries: 1,330
Total Prize Pool: $1,795,500
Number of Payouts: 200
Winning Hand: A♠ J♥

text:
Final Table

Place

Name

Prize

1st
Eric Baldwin (1/2)
$319,580

2nd
Ian Steinman
$197,461

3rd
Enrico Rudelitz
$140,957

4th
Aaron Massey
$101,819

5th
Robert Georato
$74,434

6th
Michael Finstein
$55,077

7th
Stephen Song
$41,257

8th
Gilsoo Kim
$31,290

9th
Mathew Moore
$24,032

text: Event #38: $10,000 Seven Card Stud Championship[edit]

text:
3-Day Event: June 18-20
Number of Entries: 83
Total Prize Pool: $780,200
Number of Payouts: 13
Winning Hand: 5♣ 2♥ Q♠ 7♥ A♠ 9♥ 9♠

text:
Final Table

Place

Name

Prize

1st
Yaniv Birman (1/1)
$236,238

2nd
Jesse Martin (0/2)
$146,006

3rd
Ben Yu (0/2)
$99,540

4th
Lee Salem
$69,928

5th
Matt Grapenthien (0/1)
$50,669

6th
James Obst (0/1)
$37,904

7th
Joseph Cappello
$29,306

8th
Lars Gronning
$23,443

text: Event #39: $1,500 No Limit Hold'em Shootout[edit]

text:
3-Day Event: June 19-21
Number of Entries: 908
Total Prize Pool: $1,225,800
Number of Payouts: 100
Winning Hand: 9♦ 5♣

text:
Final Table

Place

Name

Prize

1st
Preston Lee (1/1)
$236,498

2nd
Corey Dodd
$146,146

3rd
Anthony Reategui (0/1)
$105,307

4th
Dylan Linde
$76,829

5th
Jesse Kertland
$56,763

6th
Young Phan
$42,476

7th
Royce Matheson
$32,198

8th
Alexander Lakhov
$24,728

9th
Bas De Laat
$19,245

10th
Endrit Geci
$15,180

text: Event #40: $2,500 Mixed Big Bet[edit]

text:
3-Day Event: June 19-21
Number of Entries: 205
Total Prize Pool: $461,250
Number of Payouts: 31
Winning Hand: 9♠ 9♣ 6♦ 8♥ 4♠ (Big O)

text:
Final Table

Place

Name

Prize

1st
Scott Bohlman (1/1)
$122,138

2nd
Ryan Hughes (0/2)
$75,477

3rd
Daniel Weinman
$49,541

4th
Aaron Rogers
$33,344

5th
Marcel Vonk (0/1)
$23,028

6th
Jeremy Harkin (1/1)
$16,329

text: Event #41: $1,500 Limit Hold'em[edit]

text:
3-Day Event: June 20-22
Number of Entries: 596
Total Prize Pool: $804,600
Number of Payouts: 90
Winning Hand: 10♠ 7♦

text:
Final Table

Place

Name

Prize

1st
Robert Nehorayan (1/1)
$173,568

2nd
Kevin Song (0/1)
$107,242

3rd
David Gee
$73,860

4th
Terricita Gutierrez
$51,733

5th
Michael Jex
$36,860

6th
Brad Albrinck
$26,725

7th
Oleg Chebotarev
$19,723

8th
Matt Russell
$14,820

9th
Matt Woodward
$11,343

text: Event #42: $25,000 Pot Limit Omaha High Roller[edit]

text:
4-Day Event: June 20-23
Number of Entries: 230
Total Prize Pool: $5,462,500
Number of Payouts: 35
Winning Hand: A♠ A♥ 9♠ 8♣

text:
Final Table

Place

Name

Prize

1st
Shaun Deeb (1/3)
$1,402,683

2nd
Ben Yu (0/2)
$866,924

3rd
Scotty Nguyen* (0/5)
$592,875

4th
James Calderaro (0/1)
$414,134

5th
Jason Koon
$295,606

6th
Ryan Tosoc
$215,718

7th
David Benyamine (0/1)
$161,020

8th
Bogdan Capitan
$123,004

text: Event #43: $2,500 No Limit Hold'em[edit]

text:
4-Day Event: June 21-24
Number of Entries: 1,248
Total Prize Pool: $2,808,000
Number of Payouts: 188
Winning Hand: K♣ Q♠

text:
Final Table

Place

Name

Prize

1st
Timur Margolin (1/1)
$507,274

2nd
Ismael Bojang
$313,444

3rd
Michael Marder
$223,564

4th
Chris Ferguson (0/6)
$161,371

5th
Dylan Linde
$117,894

6th
Ryan Laplante (0/1)
$87,189

7th
Jeff Hakim
$65,284

8th
Andre Haneberg
$49,498

9th
Josh Bergman
$38,009

text: Event #44: $10,000 Limit 2-7 Lowball Triple Draw Championship[edit]

text:
3-Day Event: June 21-23
Number of Entries: 109
Total Prize Pool: $1,024,600
Number of Payouts: 17
Winning Hand: 7-6-5-4-2

text:
Final Table

Place

Name

Prize

1st
Nicholas Seiken (1/1)
$287,987

2nd
Randy Ohel (0/1)
$177,992

3rd
Kristijonas Andrulis
$125,190

4th
Farzad Bonyadi (0/3)
$89,078

5th
Matt Glantz
$64,131

6th
Jason Gray
$46,722

text: Event #45: $1,000 Big Blind Antes No Limit Hold'em[edit]

text:
2-Day Event: June 22-23
Number of Entries: 1,712
Total Prize Pool: $1,540,800
Number of Payouts: 257
Winning Hand: Q♦ 6♦

text:
Final Table

Place

Name

Prize

1st
Mario Prats (1/1)
$258,255

2nd
Matthew Hunt
$159,532

3rd
Sebastian Dornbracht
$114,909

4th
Michael Wang (0/1)
$83,663

5th
Mark Schluter
$61,580

6th
Gregory Worner
$45,828

7th
D.J. MacKinnon
$34,486

8th
Martin Staszko
$26,245

9th
Lander Lijo
$20,202

text: Event #46: $2,500 Mixed Omaha/Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo 8 or Better[edit]

text:
3-Day Event: June 22-24
Number of Entries: 402
Total Prize Pool: $904,500
Number of Payouts: 61
Winning Hand: 8♦ 7♣ 6♦ 4♦

text:
Final Table

Place

Name

Prize

1st
David Brookshire (1/1)
$214,291

2nd
Brendan Taylor (0/1)
$132,443

3rd
Daniel Ospina (1/1)
$89,968

4th
Ian Shaw
$62,331

5th
Tyler Groth (0/1)
$44,059

6th
Hani Awad (0/1)
$31,789

7th
William Shelton
$23,421

8th
Eric Rodawig (0/1)
$17,628

text: Event #47: $565 WSOP.com Online Pot Limit Omaha 6-Handed[edit]

text:
1-Day Event: June 22
Number of Entries: 1,223
Total Prize Pool: $635,960
Number of Payouts: 99
Winning Hand: 9♥ 8♦ 5♠ 3♦

text:
Final Table

Place

Name

Prize

1st
Matthew Mendez (1/1)
$135,078

2nd
Marton Czuczor
$82,866

3rd
Anthony Zinno (0/1)
$57,300

4th
Alex Smith
$40,256

5th
Ankush Mandavia (0/1)
$28,745

6th
Ao Chen
$20,859

text: Event #48: $1,500 Monster Stack No Limit Hold'em[edit]

text:
5-Day Event: June 23-27
Number of Entries: 6,260
Total Prize Pool: $8,451,000
Number of Payouts: 939
Winning Hand: A♦ K♣

text:
Final Table

Place

Name

Prize

1st
Tommy Nguyen (1/1)
$1,037,451

2nd
James Carroll
$640,916

3rd
Frank Rusnak
$475,212

4th
Chris Chong
$354,903

5th
Daniel Corbett
$266,987

6th
Michael Benko
$202,327

7th
Shyam Srinivasan
$154,463

8th
Harald Sammer
$118,802

9th
Rittie Chuaprasert
$92,061

text: Event #49: $10,000 Pot Limit Omaha 8-Handed Championship[edit]

text:
4-Day Event: June 23-26
Number of Entries: 476
Total Prize Pool: $4,474,400
Number of Payouts: 72
Winning Hand: A♣ A♦ 3♦ 2♥

text:
Final Table

Place

Name

Prize

1st
Loren Klein (1/3)
$1,018,336

2nd
Rep Porter (0/3)
$629,378

3rd
Brandon Shack-Harris (0/2)
$433,259

4th
Jerry Wong
$303,491

5th
Ryan Hughes (0/2)
$216,391

6th
Scott Bohlman (1/1)
$157,097

7th
Mike Leah (0/1)
$116,166

8th
Alexey Makarov
$87,522

text: Event #50: $1,500 Razz[edit]

text:
3-Day Event: June 24-26
Number of Entries: 389
Total Prize Pool: $525,150
Number of Payouts: 59
Winning Hand: 4-3-Q-9-7-6-Q

text:
Final Table

Place

Name

Prize

1st
Jay Kwon (1/1)
$125,431

2nd
Dzmitry Urbanovich
$77,526

3rd
Adam Owen
$52,536

4th
Michael McKenna
$36,324

5th
Kevin Iacofano
$25,637

6th
Thomas Taylor
$18,477

7th
Jeff Mitseff
$13,605

8th
Jeanne David
$10,240

text: Event #51: $1,500 No Limit Hold'em Bounty[edit]

text:
4-Day Event: June 25-28
Number of Entries: 1,983
Total Prize Pool: $2,677,050
Number of Payouts: 298
Winning Hand: 10♣ 7♥

text:
Final Table

Place

Name

Prize

1st
Ryan Leng (1/1)
$272,765

2nd
Ranno Sootla
$168,464

3rd
Jay Farber
$121,932

4th
Christian Nolte
$89,151

5th
Javier Gomez
$65,851

6th
Russell Rosenblum
$49,146

7th
John Gulino
$37,063

8th
Mark Mazza
$28,247

9th
Mikhail Semin
$21,759

text: Event #52: $10,000 Limit Hold'em Championship[edit]

text:
3-Day Event: June 25-27
Number of Entries: 114
Total Prize Pool: $1,071,600
Number of Payouts: 18
Winning Hand: K♣ Q♥

text:
Final Table

Place

Name

Prize

1st
Scott Seiver (1/2)
$296,222

2nd
Matt Szymaszek
$183,081

3rd
Anthony Zinno (0/1)
$129,186

4th
Christopher Chung
$93,009

5th
Matt Glantz
$68,352

6th
Philip Cordano
$51,296

7th
Daniel Zack
$39,329

8th
Michael Moore (0/1)
$30,821

9th
Ken Deng
$24,700

text: Event #53: $1,500 Pot Limit Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better[edit]

text:
3-Day Event: June 26-28
Number of Entries: 935
Total Prize Pool: $1,262,250
Number of Payouts: 141
Winning Hand: A♦ Q♥ 5♥ 3♦

text:
Final Table

Place

Name

Prize

1st
Joey Couden (1/1)
$244,370

2nd
Bruno Fitoussi
$150,990

3rd
Eli Elezra (0/3)
$106,183

4th
Mike Matusow (0/4)
$75,708

5th
Christopher Conrad
$54,738

6th
Kim Kallman
$40,141

7th
Dustin Pattinson
$29,862

8th
Gregory Jamison
$22,541

9th
Daniel Negreanu* (0/6)
$17,268

text: Event #54: $3,000 Big Blind Antes No Limit Hold'em[edit]

text:
4-Day Event: June 26-29
Number of Entries: 1,020
Total Prize Pool: $2,754,000
Number of Payouts: 153
Winning Hand: K♠ 10♠

text:
Final Table

Place

Name

Prize

1st
Diogo Veiga (1/1)
$522,715

2nd
Barry Hutter (0/1)
$323,019

3rd
Radoslav Stoyanov
$228,241

4th
Jonathan Abdellatif
$163,404

5th
Tom McCormick
$118,552

6th
David Yan
$87,179

7th
Anna Antimony
$64,991

8th
Cathal Shine
$49,126

9th
Todd Ivens
$37,660

text: Event #55: $1,000 Tag Team No Limit Hold'em[edit]

text:
3-Day Event: June 27-29
Number of Entries: 1,032
Total Prize Pool: $928,800
Number of Payouts: 155
Winning Hand: 2♥ 2♦

text:
Final Table

Place

Name

Prize

1st
Nikita Luther (1/1)Giuseppe Pantaleo (1/1)
$175,805

2nd
Kazuki IkeuchiHiroki IwataSho Mori
$108,608

3rd
Manig LoeserJoelle ParenteauDaniel Weinand
$76,797

4th
Joanne MilburnMegan MilburnAlex Rocha
$55,016

5th
Carlos CaputoGabriel Neto
$39,936

6th
Ao ChenAdam LamphereYijie Zhang
$29,380

7th
Cord Garcia (0/1)Salah LevyFrank Mariani
$21,910

8th
Bienvenido CaballeroBon Koo
$16,565

9th
Loni Harwood (0/2)Kelly MinkinHaixia Zhang (0/1)
$12,700

text: Event #56: $10,000 Razz Championship[edit]

text:
4-Day Event: June 27-30
Number of Entries: 119
Total Prize Pool: $1,118,600
Number of Payouts: 18
Winning Hand: 3-2-2-7-4-Q-5

text:
Final Table

Place

Name

Prize

1st
Calvin Anderson (1/2)
$309,220

2nd
Frank Kassela (0/3)
$191,111

3rd
Julien Martini (1/1)
$134,587

4th
Mike Leah (0/1)
$96,744

5th
Jerry Wong
$71,014

6th
Alex Balandin
$53,253

7th
John Hennigan (1/5)
$40,817

8th
Dzmitry Urbanovich
$31,992

text: Event #57: $1,000/$10,000 Ladies No Limit Hold'em Championship[edit]

text:
3-Day Event: June 28-30
Number of Entries: 696
Total Prize Pool: $626,400
Number of Payouts: 105
Winning Hand: 8♥ 5♥

text:
Final Table

Place

Name

Prize

1st
Jessica Dawley (1/1)
$130,230

2nd
Jill Pike
$80,444

3rd
Lisa Fong
$55,812

4th
Mesha James
$39,334

5th
Jacqueline Burkhart
$28,167

6th
Tara Cain
$20,499

7th
Weiyi Mo
$15,167

8th
Molly Mossey
$11,411

9th
Tara Snow
$8,732

text: Event #58: $5,000 No Limit Hold'em 6-Handed[edit]

text:
4-Day Event: June 28-July 1
Number of Entries: 621
Total Prize Pool: $2,887,650
Number of Payouts: 94
Winning Hand: Q♠ Q♦

text:
Final Table

Place

Name

Prize

1st
Jean-Robert Bellande (1/1)
$616,302

2nd
Dean Lyall
$380,895

3rd
Andrew Graham
$254,684

4th
Tay Nguyen
$173,598

5th
Eric Blair
$120,669

6th
Kacper Pyzara
$85,570

text: Event #59: $1,000 No Limit Hold'em Super Turbo Bounty[edit]

text:
1-Day Event: June 29
Number of Entries: 2,065
Total Prize Pool: $1,858,500
Number of Payouts: 310
Winning Hand: K♦ J♣

text:
Final Table

Place

Name

Prize

1st
Mike Takayama (1/1)
$198,568

2nd
Lorenc Puka
$122,627

3rd
Matthew Smith
$88,938

4th
Steve Jelinek (0/1)
$65,145

5th
Spencer Baker
$48,196

6th
Kavish Shabbir
$36,019

7th
Elizabeth Montizanti
$27,193

8th
Jack Duong (0/1)
$20,743

9th
Oliver Rusing
$15,988

text: Event #60: $10,000 Pot Limit Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better Championship[edit]

text:
3-Day Event: June 29-July 1
Number of Entries: 237
Total Prize Pool: $2,227,800
Number of Payouts: 36
Winning Hand: A♦ 8♦ 7♥ 4♦

text:
Final Table

Place

Name

Prize

1st
Phil Galfond (1/3)
$567,788

2nd
Michael McKenna
$350,922

3rd
Ali Abduljabbar
$240,497

4th
Chad Power
$168,275

5th
Chris Lee (0/1)
$120,263

6th
Marco Johnson (0/2)
$87,830

7th
David "ODB" Baker (0/1)
$65,579

8th
Chase Steely
$50,086

text: Event #61: $1,000 WSOP.com Online No Limit Hold'em Championship[edit]

text:
1-Day Event: June 29
Number of Entries: 1,635
Total Prize Pool: $1,553,250
Number of Payouts: 180
Winning Hand: A♠ J♦

text:
Final Table

Place

Name

Prize

1st
Ryan Tosoc (1/1)
$283,778

2nd
Anthony Maio
$175,206

3rd
Joel Feldman
$124,570

4th
James Robinson
$89,777

5th
Justin Lapka
$65,391

6th
Markus Gonsalves
$48,306

7th
Russell Powers
$36,190

8th
Aurelien Guiglini
$27,337

9th
Aditya Sushant (0/1)
$20,968

text: Event #62: $888 Crazy Eights No Limit Hold-em[edit]

text:
5-Day Event: June 30-July 5
Number of Entries: 8,598
Total Prize Pool: $6,871,521
Number of Payouts: 1,218
Winning Hand: 9♠ 9♦

text:
Final Table

Place

Name

Prize

1st
Galen Hall (1/1)
$888,888

2nd
Eduards Kudrjavcevs
$476,888

3rd
Niels Herregodts
$355,888

4th
Andrey Zaichenko (0/1)
$266,888

5th
Alexander Kuzmin
$201,888

6th
Jeremiah Miesen
$153,888

7th
Martin Stausholm
$117,888

8th
Philip Tom (0/1)
$90,888

text: Event #63: $3,200 WSOP.com Online No Limit Hold'em High Roller[edit]

text:
1-Day Event: June 30
Number of Entries: 480
Total Prize Pool: $1,459,200
Number of Payouts: 63
Winning Hand: 6♣ 6♠

text:
Final Table

Place

Name

Prize

1st
Chance Kornuth (1/2)
$341,598

2nd
David Goodman
$212,021

3rd
Tim Nuter
$144,168

4th
Noah Bronstein
$99,809

5th
Frank Crivello
$70,625

6th
Taylor Black
$50,926

7th
Justin Liberto (0/1)
$37,355

8th
Jonas Mackoff
$28,016

9th
Pete Chen
$21,596

text: Event #64: $10,000 Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo 8 or Better Championship[edit]

text:
3-Day Event: July 1-3
Number of Entries: 141
Total Prize Pool: $1,325,400
Number of Payouts: 22
Winning Hand: 3♣ J♦ 4♦ 7♠ 7♥ 7♦ 3♦

text:
Final Table

Place

Name

Prize

1st
Dan Matsuzuki (1/1)
$364,387

2nd
Scott Bohlman (1/1)
$225,210

3rd
Ken Aldridge (0/1)
$154,648

4th
Chris Vitch (0/2)
$108,739

5th
Daham Wang
$78,337

6th
Jerry Wong
$57,855

7th
Bryce Yockey (0/1)
$43,833

8th
Joseph Michael
$34,089

text: Event #65: $10,000 No Limit Hold'em Main Event[edit]

text:
13-Day Event: July 2-14
Number of Entries: 7,874
Total Prize Pool: $74,015,600
Number of Payouts: 1,182
Winning Hand: K♣ J♣

text:
Final Table

Place

Name

Prize

1st
John Cynn (1/1)
$8,800,000

2nd
Tony Miles
$5,000,000

3rd
Michael Dyer
$3,750,000

4th
Nicolas Manion
$2,825,000

5th
Joe Cada (1/3)
$2,150,000

6th
Aram Zobian
$1,800,000

7th
Alex Lynskey
$1,500,000

8th
Artem Metalidi
$1,250,000

9th
Antoine Labat
$1,000,000

text: Event #66: $1,500 No Limit Hold'em[edit]

text:
4-Day Event: July 5-8
Number of Entries: 1,351
Total Prize Pool: $1,823,850
Number of Payouts: 203
Winning Hand: A♦ 7♥

text:
Final Table

Place

Name

Prize

1st
Longsheng Tan (1/1)
$323,472

2nd
Lanny Levine
$199,862

3rd
Jayaram Kovoorchathoth
$142,785

4th
Trey Brabham
$103,212

5th
Adam Laskey
$75,497

6th
Stephen Bierman
$55,892

7th
John Pannucci
$41,884

8th
Georgios Tavoularis
$31,775

9th
Jason Paradis
$24,409

text: Event #67: $1,500 Pot Limit Omaha Bounty[edit]

text:
3-Day Event: July 6-8
Number of Entries: 833
Total Prize Pool: $708,050
Number of Payouts: 125
Winning Hand: K♠ Q♣ Q♥ 9♦

text:
Final Table

Place

Name

Prize

1st
Anderson Ireland (1/1)
$141,161

2nd
Matt O'Donnell (0/1)
$87,198

3rd
Joon Park
$61,013

4th
Michal Maryska
$43,313

5th
Hai Chu
$31,203

6th
Andrew Holland
$22,816

7th
Jonathan Thomas
$16,937

8th
Harry Pozefsky
$12,767

9th
Jameson Painter
$9,776

text: Event #68: $1,000 + 111 The Little One for One Drop No Limit Hold'em[edit]

text:
5-Day Event: July 7-11
Number of Entries: 4,732
Total Prize Pool: $4,258,800
Number of Payouts: 710
Winning Hand: Q♠ 10♠

text:
Final Table

Place

Name

Prize

1st
Guoliang Wei (1/1)
$559,332

2nd
Francois Tosques
$345,415

3rd
Christopher Staats
$254,580

4th
Sung Joo Hyun
$189,098

5th
Richard Douglas
$141,565

6th
Jon Hoellein
$106,822

7th
Renato Kaneoya
$81,251

8th
Erwann Pecheux
$62,299

9th
Lester Edoc
$48,157

text: Event #69: $3,000 Pot Limit Omaha 6-Handed[edit]

text:
3-Day Event: July 8-10
Number of Entries: 901
Total Prize Pool: $2,432,700
Number of Payouts: 136
Winning Hand: K♥ 10♦ 10♥ 9♥

text:
Final Table

Place

Name

Prize

1st
Ronald Keijzer (1/1)
$475,033

2nd
Romain Lewis
$293,553

3rd
Scott Bohlman (1/1)
$199,572

4th
Mohammad Abedi
$137,954

5th
James Chen
$96,987

6th
Ryan Lenaghan
$69,369

text: Event #70: $3,000 Limit Hold'em 6-Handed[edit]

text:
3-Day Event: July 9-11
Number of Entries: 221
Total Prize Pool: $596,700
Number of Payouts: 34
Winning Hand: 4♥ 4♣

text:
Final Table

Place

Name

Prize

1st
Yaser Al-Keliddar (1/1)
$154,338

2nd
Juha Helppi
$95,380

3rd
Justin Thurlow
$62,187

4th
Andrew Yip
$41,665

5th
Mike Schneider
$28,708

6th
Barry Greenstein* (0/3)
$20,358

text: Event #71: $5,000 No Limit Hold'em[edit]

text:
2-Day Event: July 10-11
Number of Entries: 452
Total Prize Pool: $2,101,800
Number of Payouts: 68
Winning Hand: 3♠ 3♥

text:
Final Table

Place

Name

Prize

1st
Phil Hellmuth* (1/15)
$485,082

2nd
Steven Wolansky (0/2)
$299,807

3rd
Alan Sternberg
$204,789

4th
Aliaksei Boika
$142,458

5th
Ken Fishman
$100,956

6th
Matt Glantz
$72,911

7th
Paul Hoefer (0/1)
$53,682

8th
Ralph Wong
$40,309

9th
Eric Hicks
$30,881

text: Event #72: $1,500 Mixed No Limit Hold'em/Pot Limit Omaha 8-Handed[edit]

text:
3-Day Event: July 10-12
Number of Entries: 707
Total Prize Pool: $954,450
Number of Payouts: 107
Winning Hand: A♦ Q♥

text:
Final Table

Place

Name

Prize

1st
Jordan Polk (1/1)
$197,461

2nd
Fernando Brito
$122,032

3rd
Jesse Vilchez
$85,320

4th
Dan Matsuzuki (1/1)
$60,556

5th
Samuel Welbourne
$43,641

6th
Ryan Leng (1/1)
$31,942

7th
Kevin Iacofano
$23,751

8th
Alexander Ziskin (0/1)
$17,945

text: Event #73: $1,000 Double Stack No Limit Hold'em[edit]

text:
2-Day Event: July 11-12
Number of Entries: 1,221
Total Prize Pool: $1,098,900
Number of Payouts: 184
Winning Hand: 8♣ 7♣

text:
Final Table

Place

Name

Prize

1st
Denis Timofeev (1/1)
$199,586

2nd
Leo Margets
$123,297

3rd
Evan Lipshultz
$87,831

4th
Ben Yu (0/2)
$63,327

5th
Justin Young
$46,221

6th
Juan Carlos Martin
$34,157

7th
Hien Nguyen
$25,560

8th
Thiago Nishijima (0/1)
$19,371

9th
Jason Johnson
$14,871

text: Event #74: $10,000 Big Blind Antes No Limit Hold'em 6-Handed Championship[edit]

text:
3-Day Event: July 11-13
Number of Entries: 355
Total Prize Pool: $3,337,000
Number of Payouts: 54
Winning Hand: K♥ 4♣

text:
Final Table

Place

Name

Prize

1st
Shaun Deeb (2/4)
$814,179

2nd
Paul Volpe (1/3)
$503,196

3rd
Romain Lewis
$325,842

4th
Bin Duan
$216,370

5th
Scott Margereson
$147,431

6th
John Andress
$103,152

text: Event #75: $1,500 The Closer No Limit Hold'em[edit]

text:
4-Day Event: July 12-15
Number of Entries: 3,120
Total Prize Pool: $4,212,000
Number of Payouts: 457
Winning Hand: 10♥ 10♦

text:
Final Table

Place

Name

Prize

1st
Joe Cada (2/4)
$612,886

2nd
Paawan Bansal
$378,765

3rd
Jeffrey Tanouye
$278,774

4th
Richard Ali
$206,813

5th
Eric Afriat
$154,660

6th
Richard Cox
$116,595

7th
Jimmy Poper
$88,615

8th
Brayden Gazlay
$67,904

9th
Joshua Turner
$52,465

text: Event #76: $3,000 H.O.R.S.E.[edit]

text:
3-Day Event: July 12-14
Number of Entries: 354
Total Prize Pool: $955,800
Number of Payouts: 54
Winning Hand: A♥ 9♥ 5♣ 2♦ (Omaha Hi-Lo)

text:
Final Table

Place

Name

Prize

1st
Brian Hastings (1/4)
$233,202

2nd
Andrew Brown (0/1)
$144,128

3rd
Tim Marsters
$97,340

4th
Jeff Madsen (0/4)
$67,121

5th
Lee Markholt
$47,275

6th
Hye Park
$34,027

7th
Dutch Boyd (0/3)
$25,040

8th
Bruno Fitoussi
$18,849

text: Event #77: $50,000 Big Blind Ante No Limit Hold'em High Roller[edit]

text:
2-Day Event: July 13-14
Number of Entries: 128
Total Prize Pool: $6,144,000
Number of Payouts: 20
Winning Hand: K♠ Q♥

text:
Final Table

Place

Name

Prize

1st
Ben Yu (1/3)
$1,650,773

2nd
Sean Winter
$1,020,253

3rd
Nick Petrangelo (1/2)
$720,103

4th
Isaac Haxton
$518,882

5th
Igor Kurganov (0/1)
$381,874

6th
Manig Loeser
$287,174

7th
John Racener (0/1)
$220,777

8th
Jake Schindler
$173,604

text: Event #78: $1,000,000 The Big One for One Drop No Limit Hold'em[edit]

text:
3-Day Event: July 15-17
Number of Entries: 27
Total Prize Pool: $24,840,000
Number of Payouts: 5
Winning Hand: A♠ J♦

text:
Final Table

Place

Name

Prize

1st
Justin Bonomo (2/3)
$10,000,000

2nd
Fedor Holz (0/1)
$6,000,000

3rd
Dan Smith
$4,000,000

4th
Rick Salomon
$2,840,000

5th
Byron Kaverman (0/1)
$2,000,000