The 2004 World Series of Poker (WSOP) was held at Binion's Horseshoe after Harrah's Entertainment purchased the casino and the rights to the tournament in January. Harrah's announced that future WSOP tournaments will be held in a moving circuit of member casinos.

There were 32 preliminary bracelet events at the 2004 World Series of Poker.

Number	Event	Winner	Prize	Runner-up
1	$500 Casino Employees Limit Hold'em	Carl Nessel (1/1)	$40,000	Cory Pocket
2	$2,000 No Limit Hold'em	James Vogl (1/1)	$400,000	Shawn Rice
3	$1,500 Seven-card stud	Ted Forrest (1/4)	$111,440	Chad Brown
4	$1,500 Limit Hold-em	Aaron Katz (1/1)	$234,940	Richard Gardner-Brown
5	$1,500 Omaha Hi-Lo Split	Curtis Bibb (1/1)	$160,000	Paul Phillips
6	$1,500 Pot Limit Hold'Em	Minh Nguyen (1/2)	$155,420	Lorne Persons
7	$1,000 No-Limit Hold'Em	Gerry Drehobl (1/1)	$365,900	John Juanda (0/3)
8	$2,000 Pot Limit Omaha	Chau Giang (1/3)	$187,920	Robert Williamson III
9	$1,500 No Limit Hold 'Em	Scott Fischman (1/1)	$300,000	Joe Awada
10	$2,000 Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo Split	Cyndy Violette (1/1)	$135,900	Pete Kaufman
11	$2,500 Limit Hold'Em	Eli Balas (1/3)	$174,440	Steve Shkolnik
12	$2,000 H.O.R.S.E.	Scott Fischman (2/2)	$100,200	John Cover
13	$5,000 No Limit Hold'Em	Thomas Keller (1/1)	$382,020	Martin de Knijff
14	$1,500 Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo Split	Hasan Habib (1/1)	$93,060	Tommy Polk
15	$2,000 Limit Hold' Em	Daniel Negreanu (1/3)	$169,100	Chris Hinchcliffe
16	$5,000 No-Limit Deuce to Seven Draw	Barry Greenstein (1/1)	$296,200	Chris Ferguson (0/5)
17	$1,500 Limit Hold 'Em Shootout	Kathy Liebert (1/1)	$110,180	Kevin Song (0/1)
18	$1,500 No-Limit Hold 'Em Shootout	Phi Nguyen (1/2)	$180,000	Kirill Gerasimov
19	$2,000 Omaha Hi-Lo Split	Annie Duke (1/1)	$137,860	Ron Graham (0/1)
20	$1,000 Ladies Limit Hold 'Em	Hung Doan (1/1)	$58,530	Millie Shiu
21	$2,000 Pot Limit Hold 'Em	Antonio Esfandiari (1/1)	$58,530	Phi Nguyen (0/2)
22	$5,000 Omaha Hi-Lo Split	Brett Jungblut (1/1)	$187,720	John Cernuto (0/3)
23	$1,500 No Limit Hold'em	Ted Forrest (2/5)	$300,300	Susan Pritchett
24	$5,000 Seven Card Stud	Joe Awada (1/1)	$221,000	Marcel Lüske
25	$3,000 Pot Limit Hold'Em	Gavin Griffin (1/1)	$270,420	Garry Bush
26	$1,500 Seven Card Razz	T. J. Cloutier (1/5)	$90,500	Dutch Boyd
27	$1,000 Deuce to Seven Triple Draw	Farzad Bonyadi (1/2)	$86,980	Trung Ly
28	$1,000 Seniors No-Limit Hold'em	Gary Gibbs (1/1)	$136,960	Carl McKelvey
29	$5,000 Limit Hold 'Em	John Hennigan (1/2)	$325,360	An Tran (0/1)
30	$3,000 No-Limit Hold'em	Mike Sica (1/1)	$503,160	John Kabbaj
31	$5,000 Pot Limit Omaha	Ted Lawson (1/1)	$500,000	Lee Watkinson
32	$1,500 A-5 Draw Lowball	Norm Ketchum (1/1)	$84,500	Barry Greenstein (0/1)

There were 2,576 entrants to the main event – more than three times the number of the previous year. Each entry paid $10,000 to enter, with the top 225 players finishing in the money. Many entrants, including the overall winner, won their seat in online poker tournaments. 1995 main event champion Dan Harrington made the final table for the second consecutive year. His bid for a second main-event title came up short once again as he finished in fourth place.

Name	Number of chips (percentage of total)	WSOP Bracelets*	WSOP Cashes*	WSOP Earnings*
Greg Raymer	8,215,000 (32.4%)	0	1	$5,345
Matt Dean	4,920,000 (19.4%)	0	0	0
Josh Arieh	3,205,000 (12.6%)	1	6	$306,990
Glenn Hughes	2,275,000 (9.0%)	0	4	$44,270
Dan Harrington	2,245,000 (8.9%)	2	8	$1,975,858
David Williams	1,575,000 (6.2%)	0	0	0
Al Krux	1,305,000 (5.1%)	1	6	$345,705
Mike McClain	885,000 (3.5%)	0	2	$12,679
Mattias Andersson	740,000 (2.9%)	0	0	0

*Career statistics prior to the beginning of the 2004 Main Event.

Place	Name	Prize
1st	Greg Raymer	$5,000,000
2nd	David Williams	$3,500,000
3rd	Josh Arieh	$2,500,000
4th	Dan Harrington	$1,500,000
5th	Glenn Hughes	$1,100,000
6th	Al Krux	$800,000
7th	Matt Dean	$675,000
8th	Mattias Andersson	$575,000
9th	Michael McClain	$470,400

NB: This list is restricted to top 100 finishers with an existing Wikipedia entry.

Place	Name	Prize
10th	Marcel Lüske	$373,000
15th	Eddy Scharf	$275,000
18th	Harry Demetriou	$147,500
26th	Chris Ferguson	$120,000
32nd	Julian Gardner	$80,000
33rd	Matthew Hilger	$80,000
52nd	Gavin Smith	$45,000
53rd	Doyle Brunson	$45,000
54th	Blair Rodman	$45,000
59th	Daniel Alaei	$35,000
72nd	Dave Ulliott	$30,000
86th	Randy Holland	$20,000
87th	Mike Matusow	$20,000
90th	Burt Boutin	$20,000

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• Tournament results at the World Series of Poker

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