One more file has been set in poker’s greatest annual occasion, with attendance for the 2024 World Sequence of Poker (WSOP) Fundamental Occasion cracking final yr’s historic numbers.
Registration is but to shut on Monday afternoon, Day 2, and the official determine has but to be introduced. However the WSOP has introduced that the file has been damaged, with a minimum of 10,044 gamers getting into the event
Late registration stays open till the tip of Degree 7 (5:10 pm ET). We’ll replace you accordingly when the ultimate determine is introduced and payouts have been confirmed.
Breaking Information on the World Sequence of Poker
One yr in the past, Daniel Weinman obtained $12,100,000 for profitable the most important Fundamental Occasion ever — 10,043 gamers. Previous to final yr, the largest subject within the prestigious event occurred in 2006 with 8,773 entries, an occasion gained by Jamie Gold for precisely $12 million.
In 2022, there was some buzz about breaking the file, and it virtually occurred. On the finish of registration, there have been 8,663 gamers within the subject, simply 110 off the 2006 file. After which Poker Increase 2.0 occurred final yr, main to an enormous spike in attendance on the 2023 WSOP, with the Fundamental Occasion reaching unthinkable heights.
Heading into the 2024 WSOP Fundamental Occasion, there was some dialogue about the potential of this being one other record-breaking yr.
After a gradual begin, numbers began to creep up. And after Day 2abc on Sunday, June 7, it turned apparent that it was going to come back all the way down to the wire on Monday. There have been 9,494 gamers registered by the tip of the day. That meant the WSOP wanted a minimum of 550 extra gamers to register earlier than the third blind degree of Day 2nd started.
At round 2:30 p.m., Kevin “Kevmath” Mathers tweeted that Fundamental Occasion subject had reached 10,000 entries in whole, simply 34 shy of tying the file.
By that stage, it felt like a case of when not if, and finally information got here by means of that the file had been damaged. And though the official quantity has not been confirmed, it is nonetheless one other unimaginable second within the historical past of the WSOP.
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The World Sequence of Poker Fundamental Occasion first happened in 1970 with simply seven entrants. Fifty 4 years later and the sector has surpassed 10,000 entrants in consecutive years. Fittingly, the collection founding father Jack Binion revealed the Fundamental Occasion bracelet and “shuffle up and deal” previous to the beginning of Day 2nd.
Poker’s booming, the WSOP is booming, and now the one questions that stay are, who will win the 2024 WSOP Fundamental Occasion, and can subsequent yr’s world championship occasion be even greater? Keep tuned to seek out out.
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