2024 Main Event Draws 10,112 Entries To Become Largest In World Series of Poker History

The 2024 World Sequence of Poker $10,000 buy-in no-limit maintain’em most important occasion is formally the biggest ever held within the storied 55-year historical past of the WSOP. The match drew 10,112 entries to beat the ten,043 made in 2023 by 69 gamers. Previous to final 12 months, the best turnout was the 8,773 entries made in 2006. Whereas that report stood for practically 17 years, the brand new excessive watermark was outstripped after simply 12 months.

The staggering variety of gamers who made their solution to Paris and Horseshoe Las Vegas for this occasion constructed a last prize pool of $94,041,600, the richest of any poker match ever run. The highest 1,517 finishers will make the cash and earn a bit of that pot, with a min-cash as soon as once more being value $15,000. A full record of the payouts is obtainable on the match’s web page in Card Participant’s database.

The eventual champion of this historic occasion can be awarded $10,000,000. They will even take residence the 2024 WSOP championship bracelet (pictured above), which was unveiled in the beginning of Monday’s Day 2D session by Jack Binion.

This marks the sixth time {that a} WSOP most important occasion champion has earned an eight-figure payday, with this 12 months’s winner becoming a member of 2023 world champion Daniel Weinman ($12,100,000), 2006 champion Jamie Gold ($12,000,000), 2022 champion Espen Jorstad ($10,000,000), 2019 champion Hossein Ensan ($10,000,000) and 2014 champion Martin Jacobson ($10,000,000).

The highest 9 finishers are all set to earn at the very least seven-figure paydays, with the runner-up taking residence $6 million and the third-place finisher incomes $6 million. The ultimate six will all be multi-millionaires because of their deep runs on this match. So as to lock up a $100,000 payday or extra, gamers might want to survive lengthy sufficient to be one of many final 125 contenders.

Late registration was open via the beginning of degree 8 on day 2D. A complete of 618 entries have been made on the ultimate day obtainable to gamers. Coming into Day 2D, there have been 9,494 entries made throughout Days 1A via 1D and day 2ABC, which additionally provided late registration up via the beginning of the third degree of the day (degree 8 general). Day 1D set a brand new report for the biggest turnout of any beginning flight with 5,014. The earlier high turnout was the 4,879 entries made on Day 1C again in 2019.

Right here is how the entries for this record-setting turnout break down by flight (with a comparability to 2023 numbers):

Day 1A – 915 (down 11.7 % from 1,037 in 2023)Day 1B – 831 (down 25.5 % from 1,115 in 2023) Day 1C – 2,528 (down 17.8 % from 3,075 in 2023)Day 1D – 5,014 (up 21.9 % from 4,113 in 2023)Day 2ABC – 206 (up 5.1 % from 196 in 2023)Day 2D – 618 (up 21.9 % from 507 in 2023)Complete – 10,112 (up 0.7 % from 10,043 in 2023)

Take a look at a video with the championship bracelet reveal from WSOP under:

Jack Binion, the visionary behind WSOP, joined us at present to kick off the Shuffle Up and Deal and unveil the 2024 Essential Occasion bracelet! #WSOP2024 pic.twitter.com/9tnb0jkwRU

— WSOP – World Sequence of Poker (@WSOP) July 8, 2024

Here’s a have a look at the ten largest WSOP most important occasions of all time (by area):

12 months
Champion
Entries
Prize Pool
High Payout

2024
TBD
10,112
$94,041,600
$10,000,000

2023
Daniel Weinman
10,043
$93,399,900
$12,100,000

2006
Jamie Gold
8,773
$82,512,162
$12,000,000

2022
Espen Jorstdad
8,663
$80,782,475
$10,000,000

2019
Hossein Ensan
8,569
$80,548,600
$10,000,000

2018
John Cynn
7,874
$74,015,600
$8,800,000

2010
Jonathan Duhamel
7,319
$68,798,600
$8,944,310

2017
Scott Blumstein
7,221
$67,877,400
$8,150,000

2011
Pius Heinz
6,865
$64,531,000
$8,715,638

2008
Peter Eastgate
6,844
$64,333,600
$9,152,416

Go to the Card Participant 2024 World Sequence of Poker web page for schedules, information, interviews, and the newest occasion outcomes. WSOP protection sponsored by World Poker.

Bracelet picture by way of PokerGO / Miguel Cortes.