26th Annual
World Series of Poker

The Winners

May 19, 1995

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Mary Winter (702) 382-1600

DAN HARRINGTON OF DOWNEY, CALIFORNIA, WINS WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP AND $1 MILLION IN 1995 WORLD SERIES OF POKER

Placing second in the Texas Hold'em championship event and winning $519,000 was Howard Goldfarb, a 33-year-old land developer from Toronto, Canada. A recreational poker player, Goldfarb has cashed in one previous World Series competition. He began playing poker just two years ago. Brent Carter of Oak Park, Illinois, won third place and $302,750. A 46-year-old retired businessman, Carter holds two World Series of Poker titles, as well as titles from the Hall of Fame Poker Classic, the Super Bowl of Poker, the L.A. Poker Classic, and the Diamond Jim Brady Poker Tournament. His introduction to poker came during grade school, when he began playing penny ante with his friends. Hamid Dastmalchi, the 1992 World Champion of Poker, finished in fourth place for $173,000. A 39-year-old real-estate investor from San Diego, California, Dastmalchi holds three World Series of Poker titles and has accumulated tournament earnings of $1,597,160. He currently holds down the No. 3 spot on the roster of all-time World Series money winners. Placing fifth and winning $114,180 was Barbara Enright, a professional poker player from Van Nuys, California. This is the highest finish ever for a woman in the championship no-limit Texas Hold'em event. The only two-time Women's World Poker Champion (1986, '94), Enright has total World Series earnings of $170,960 and now ranks No. 1 on the women's roster of all-time tournament money winners. Among the other highlights of this year's World Series of Poker are the following:

• Hilbert Shirey of Winterhaven, Florida, won two consecutive events -- the $2,500 buy-in pot-limit Omaha contest on May 9 and the $2,500 buy-in pot-limit Hold'em competition on May 10 -- becoming only the fourth player in World Series history to accomplish this feat.
• Men "The Master" Nguyen of Bell Gardens, California, also won two events -- the $2,500 buy-in Seven-Card Stud High-Low Split competition and the $2,500 buy-in limit Hold'em contest.
• Starla Brodie, the only woman who has entered the Women's Seven-Card Stud championship event all 18 years since it was first added to the tournament schedule in 1977, finally won the Women's World Poker Champion title and $35,200 in the 1995 competition.
• This year marks the first time in World Series history that a brother and sister have competed at the same final table. Annie Duke placed sixth in the $1,500 buy-in pot-limit Hold'em tournament, while her brother, Howard Lederer, finished ninth. In addition, Duke cashed in four events in the 1995 World Series and now ranks No. 4 on the women's roster of all-time tournament money winners.
• T.J. Cloutier placed second in the $5,000 buy-in Seven-Card Stud event for $88,550 and now has total World Series earnings of $1,008,610. He became the first player to top $1 million in tournament earnings without winning the no-limit Hold'em championship event.