If you go back and take a look at the results in the early and mid ´90s, you will see what I mean. There were often two-time and three-time event-winners a few years running. Even though you might chalk this up to the much lesser amount of entrants in the events, I assure you that these happenings defied probability to the very core of its definition.
I wrote about this extensively in my book "Dirty Poker." I changed the names of the tournaments and did not name the top players who I felt were involved in the collusion, but if you read in between the lines and the facts I laid out, you can figured out which players I intimated were involved in the WSOP collusion-cheating syndicates, most of whom are still very active in the WSOP today.