These annual summaries feature information from the Binion's Collection at UNLV Special Collections and other sources. For later years, annual summary pages contain links to other sites that have valuable information.

Some information, including champions, was compiled from other internet sites, and some is from the Binion's archives, paricularly the press kits. All information is accurate to the extent that it is presented as reported in the media guides issued by Binion's.

These summaries have been compiled by UNLV Special Collections student assistant Alycia-Marie Snow.

Player Biographies (from the 1978 media guide)

(1) 1970 World Series of Poker Champion: Johnny Moss

(2) 1971 World Series of Poker Champion: Johnny Moss

(3) 1972 World Series of Poker Champion: Amarillo "Slim" Preston

(4) 1973 World Series of Poker Champion: Puggy Pearson

(5) 1974 World Series of Poker Champion: Johnny Moss

(6) 1975 World Series of Poker Champion: Sailor Roberts

(7) 1976 World Series of Poker Champion: Doyle Brunson

(8) 1977 World Series of Poker Champion: Doyle Brunson

(9) 1978 World Series of Poker Champion: Bobby Baldwin

(10) 1979 World Series of Poker Champion: Hal Fowler

(11) 1980 World Series of Poker Champion: Stu Ungar

(12) 1981 World Series of Poker Champion: Stu Ungar

(13) 1982 World Series of Poker Champion: Jack Straus

(14) 1983 World Series of Poker Champion: Tom McEvoy

(15) 1984 World Series of Poker Champion: Jack Keller

(16) 1985 World Series of Poker Champion: Bill Smith

(17) 1986 World Series of Poker Champion: Berry Johnston

(18) 1987 World Series of Poker Champion: Johnny Chan

(19) 1988 World Series of Poker Champion: Johnny Chan

(20) 1989 World Series of Poker Champion: Phil Hellmuth

(21) 1990 World Series of Poker Champion: Mansour Matloubi

(22) 1991 World Series of Poker Champion: Brad Daugherty

(23) 1992 World Series of Poker Champion: Hamid Datsmalchi

(24) 1993 World Series of Poker Champion: Jim Bechtel

(25) 1994 World Series of Poker Champion: Russ Hamilton

(26) 1995 World Series of Poker Champion: Dan Harrington

(27) 1996 World Series of Poker Champion: Huck Seed

(28) 1997 World Series of Poker Champion: Stu Unger

(29) 1998 World Series of Poker Champion: Scotty Nguyen

(30) 1999 World Series of Poker Champion: Noel Furlong

(31) 2000 World Series of Poker Champion: Chris Ferguson

(32) 2001 World Series of Poker from Poker Pages Champion: Carlos Mortensen

(33) 2002 World Series of Poker from Poker Pages Champion: Robert Varkyoni

(34) 2003 World Series of Poker from Poker Pages Champion: Chris Moneymaker

(35) 2004 World Series of Poker from Poker Pages Champion: Greg Raymer

(36) 2005 World Series of Poker from Poker Pages Champion: Joseph Hachem

(37) 2006 World Series of Poker from Poker Pages Champion: Jamie Gold

(38) 2007 World Series of Poker from Poker Pages Champion: Jerry Yang