World Series Of Poker Draws Almost 230,000 Total Entrants

The 2024 World Sequence of Poker is now within the books and sequence officers have launched some numbers from the pageant that present simply how huge the sequence turned out.

This 12 months’s sequence produced a number of new WSOP and stay event poker data. That included Jonathan Tamayo, of Humble, Texas, popping out on high of the most important primary occasion subject ever with 10,112 gamers and a $10 million first-place prize. The event additionally noticed the most important prize pool for a single occasion in stay event poker historical past at simply over $94 million.

“It’s particular to see the eagerness for poker proceed to ship data on an annual foundation,” WSOP Senior Vice President and Govt Director Ty Stewart stated. “The laundry listing of data that have been shattered this summer time on the WSOP proceed to indicate that the poker renaissance is upon us.”

Large Numbers

WSOP officers additionally made observe of a number of different data and accomplishments. In whole, the sequence produced 229,553 entries from all tournaments, essentially the most all-time. The primary occasion set a single-day entrants report on July 6, with 5,014 gamers as a part of flight 1D.

The prize pool for the $25,000 PLO Excessive Curler turned the most important pot-limit Omaha prize pool in stay event poker historical past at $11.2 million, whereas the $1,000 Thriller Bounty PLO turned the most important pot-limit Omaha subject with 4,280 entries.

The ten,939 entries within the Millionaire Maker set a report for the most important $1,500 buy-in subject in stay event poker historical past. The three,177 entries for the Mid-Stakes Championship turned the most important $3,000 buy-in subject ever.

A complete of 34,717 locations have been paid on the 2024 WSOP, topping final 12 months’s whole of 32,282 for a brand new report.

This 12 months’s WSOP additionally set the report for the variety of occasions exceeding $2 million prize swimming pools at 54 and a report for $10 million prize swimming pools at seven.

In associated information, sequence officers additionally lately introduced the official schedule for the WSOP Circuit and motion is now already underway on the Choctaw On line casino in Oklahoma. Particulars for the December WSOP Paradise within the Bahamas was additionally launched final week, which features a large $50 million assure.

Need to take a second to thank JackEffel</a> and <a href=”https://twitter.com/WSOP?ref_src=twsrcpercent5Etfw”>WSOP for placing on an exquisite occasion once more this 12 months. The ground workers was excellent this 12 months and high quality of sellers was nearly as good because it’s ever been. Thanks to all who labored the WSOP

— David Baker (@audavidb) July 18, 2024