The 2024 World Sequence of Poker (WSOP) shattered data and exceeded expectations, marking a spectacular chapter for the worldwide poker neighborhood. With a jaw-dropping rise in entries and a record-breaking complete in funds collected, this 12 months’s occasion has actually redefined what’s potential on the WSOP.
Highlights embody unprecedented participation numbers, a big leap in complete funds, and standout particular person performances. Be a part of PokerNews as we discover the small print of this historic poker collection.
This text focuses solely on the 99 dwell bracelet occasions and doesn’t account for 2024 WSOP On-line.
Variety of Entries Up From 2023
In final 12 months’s WSOP breakdown, PokerNews instructed you that the overall variety of entries throughout the pageant in 2023 was 215,655. Because of 4 extra dwell bracelet occasions this time round, that determine rose to 229,559, sufficient to fill three-and-a-half Allegiant Stadiums.
For a second consecutive 12 months, the $300 Gladiators of Poker was the best-attended occasion, garnering 20,647 entry slips. The $400 Colossus narrowly missed the 20K milestone, wrapping up with 19,303.
The opposite occasions with a five-figure inhabitants have been the $1,000 Thriller Tens of millions (18,409), $1,500 Millionaire Maker (10,939), and the record-breaking $10,000 Primary Occasion (10,112).
Moreover, if a participant wished to fireside a single bullet in every occasion, their bankroll would have to be $971,856 to cowl all the prices.
Nearly Half a Billion Gambled
Sure, that is proper. Practically $500 million was collected from the 2024 WSOP Bracelet occasions, a very eyebrow-raising determine.
The WSOP collected $480,764,185 throughout the summer season, $40 million greater than final 12 months’s complete. To place that into perspective, that is greater than the GDP of locations like:
Micronesia ($460m)Kiribati ($279m)Palau ($263m)Marshall Islands ($284m)Nauru ($154m)Tuvalu ($62m)*Figures are from World Financial institution estimates
And now, the bit that everyone needs to know. How a lot did the WSOP absorb rake?
From the $480,764,185 collected, $437,440,545 went into prize swimming pools, that means $43,323,640 went to the WSOP. As defined in 2023, the rake is shared between entry charges and the WSOP employees. From the rake, $30,274,048 was taken in entry charges, with $13,049,592 going to the employees.
Do you know? The $1,000 rake from the $250,000 buy-in Tremendous Excessive Curler goes straight to employees.
A complete of $67,020,895 was paid out in first-place prizes, with Jonathan Tamayo‘s $10 million payout for profitable the Primary Occasion being the best. Fifteen bracelet winners have been rewarded with seven-figure windfalls, along with the 2 gamers who pulled the $1 million Thriller Tens of millions prime bounty prizes.
Scott Seiver Joins an Unique Membership
Scott Seiver turned the primary participant to win three WSOP bracelets on the identical venue in the identical 12 months since Jeffrey Lisandro in 2009.
George Danzer gained three in 2014 however the first occurred within the World Sequence of Poker Asia Pacific (APAC) collection. Phil Ivey (2002), Phil Hellmuth (1993), Ted Forrest (1993), and Puggy Pearson (1973) are the one different gamers to win three WSOP titles in a single collection.
Seiver started the summer season with a victory for $426,744 within the $10,000 Omaha Hello-Lo 8-or-Higher Championship occasion. Two weeks later, he took down the $1,500 Razz match for $141,374. In doing so, he turned the favourite for Participant of the Yr. He’d tack on a 3rd bracelet in late June within the $10,000 No-Restrict 2-7 Lowball Draw Championship for $411,041.
With a trio of triumphs, Seiver was topped the 2024 WSOP Participant of the Yr, holding off the likes of Jeremy Ausmus, John Racener and Michael Rocco.
America led the way in which with 59 match victories, whereas European gamers additionally made a powerful impression. England, France, and Germany every secured three titles.
Australia and Canada have been well-represented, with three and 4 wins respectively. Gamers from Bulgaria, China, and Spain additionally achieved notable success (two wins every).
Gamers from Chile, Israel, Portugal, Sweden, Russia, Norway, Brazil, Argentina, India, Italy, Scotland, Japan, Hong Kong, Cyprus, and Lithuania additionally claimed single victories.
CountryNumber of Titles
United States59
Canada4
France3
Germany3
England3
Australia3
Bulgaria2
China2
Spain2
India2
Italy2
Russia2
Chile1
Cyprus1
Hong Kong1
Israel1
Lithuania1
Norway1
Portugal1
Sweden1
Scotland1
Japan1
Brazil1
Argentina1
Calum has been part of the PokerNews staff since September 2021 after working within the UK power sector. He performed his first hand of poker in 2017 and instantly fell in love with the sport.
Calum has written for numerous poker shops however discovered his house at PokerNews, the place he has contributed to numerous articles and dwell updates, offering insights and reporting on main poker occasions, together with the World Sequence of Poker (WSOP).