Ted & Michele Lawson Among Handful of Power Couples to Win WSOP Gold Bracelets
If you watched the World Series of Poker (WSOP) on ESPN back in 2004, there’s a good chance you saw Ted Lawson capture his gold bracelet. It happened in the $5,000 Pot-Limit Omaha event at a final table that included Freddy Deeb, Howard Lederer, and Daniel Negreanu (Fun Fact: Chris Moneymaker finished 10th in the tournament).
Lawson, who is deep in the 2026 WSOP Europe Main Event in Prague, is a consummate grinder with just over $3 million in lifetime tournament earnings dating back to 2000, according to The Hendon Mob. That includes a career-high $500,00 for winning his bracelet.
What’s interesting is that he’s not the only bracelet winner in his family. His wife of over 40 years, Michele Lawson, is a player herself, and in November 2024, she topped a field of 1,293 runners to win the WSOP Online Bracelet Event #27: NLH Hold’em for $41,567 and her own piece of gold.
“It meant a lot to both her and me, because as a couple, we're like one of seven couples or whatever it is to both win WSOP gold bracelets,” Ted told PokerNews.
Indeed, there aren’t many bracelet-winning poker couples in the industry – Kristen & Alex Foxen and Liv Boeree & Igor Kurganov are two that jump to mind – but the Lawsons are among them in a poker journey 20 years in the making.