Wsop Attendance History

guiplosuntio1983.netlify.com › ∎ Wsop Attendance History ∎

Wsop Attendance History 6,6/10 5481 votes

Wsop Attendance History

»News
»The Five Biggest WSOP Main Event Prizes In History

2011 WSOP Statistics – Full Preliminary Event Totals: NOTE: Stats provided by WSOP. Through the conclusion of Event No. 57 the 2011 WSOP has attracted 65,335.
This now becomes the second largest WSOP Main Event attendance bested only by the 8,773 entries of 2006. Added to that, the massive 4,571 draw of Day 1C set a record high as the single biggest flight in the tour’s history. Moving on to more jaw-dropping figures, let’s have a look at the prize pool and the payouts.

The 2019 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event, the 50th such tournament in the WSOP’s history, shuffles up for the first time on July 3rd and runs through to July 16th when a new world champion is crowned. Attendances at the 2019 WSOP are way up on previous years, pointing towards the 50th-anniversary edition of the WSOP Main Event being one of the biggest ever held in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Highest Average WSOP Tournament Attendance – 1,563. Another record that sticks out is how the 69 tournaments this summer drew an average of 1,563 players. This is amazing when you consider that the WSOP Main Event didn’t even reach this number until 2004. Most WSOP Players to Cash – 15,767. The 2019 World Series of Poker is now in the history books. On Tuesday night, July 16, the last of the tournaments awarded bracelets to their respective winners, making a total of 90 WSOP champions for the summer. One of those events, however, was the shining star of the series, as usual. The $10K No Limit Hold’em World Championship was also known as Event 73 but more commonly as the WSOP.

Johnny Moss won the inaugural WSOP Main Event back in 1970. Only seven players entered and the winner was chosen by a vote. Moss won the 1971 WSOP Main Event, which saw six players enter the $5,000 buy-in Main Event. The buy-in for the WSOP Main Event has been $10,000 from 1972 onwards.

It was the 1982 WSOP Main Event that was the first to break through the 100 entrants barrier, attracting a field of 104 who were all outlasted by Jack “Tree Top” Straus who was down to a single chip before marching onto victory, thus coining the poker term “a chip and a chair.”

The Moneymaker Effect

Chris Moneymaker won the last WSOP Main Event not to have four-figures worth of players competing in it. Moneymaker triumphed over 839 players to scoop the $2.5 million first-place prize after winning his $10,000 seat in an $86 buy-in online satellite at PokerStars.

This created what is affectionately known as the “Moneymaker Effect” and thousands of poker wannabes flocked to Las Vegas the following year for the 2004 WSOP Main Event that saw a then-record 2,576 field and a $5 million top prize secured by Greg Raymer.

While impressive, these figures are nothing compared to the five biggest WSOP Main Event prizes in history. Lets us take a look at those gargantuan winners.

1.) Jamie Gold: $12,000,000

Jamie Gold won the 2006 WSOP Main Event which still holds the record attendance with 8,773 players buying in. Gold defeated Paul Wasicka heads-up for the title, his queen-nine prevailing against Wasicka’s pocket tens. Wasicka walked away with $6,102,499 for his second-place finish.

2.) Martin Jacobson: $10,000,000

Martin Jacobson: 2014 WSOP Main Event champion

Swedish superstar Martin Jacobson is second on our list with his 2014 WSOP Main Event victory netting him a cool $10 million. You may be surprised to learn that Jacobson’s win was over one of the smallest field in recent times with 6,683 players battling it out to become world champion.

The reason Jacobson’s haul is the second-largest is the WSOP ran a promotion in 2014 that guaranteed $10 million to first-place, much to Jacobson’s delight as any other year he would have returned home with approximately $1.5 million less.

3.) Peter Eastgate: $9,152,416

Peter Eastgate occupies third-place in the biggest ever WSOP Main Event prizes after he banked $9,152,416 for his victory in 2008. Primarily an online poker cash game player, Denmark’s Eastgate defeated Russia’s Ivan Demidov heads-up to lock up the huge prize.

While Demidov went onto become a Team PokerStars Pro for several years, Eastgate quit playing poker and even put his WSOP Main Event bracelet up for sale on the auction site ebay.

4.) Jonathan Duhamel: $8,944,310

Jonathan Duhamel: 2010 WSOP Main Event champion

Canadian pro Jonathan Duhamel won $8,944,310 when he outlasted 7,318 opponents in the 2010 WSOP Main Event. The final table was a pro-heavy affair with the likes of Matthew Jarvis, Michael Mizrachi and Joseph Cheong present and correct. It was Duhamel, however, who emerged victorious, defeating John Racener one-on-one for poker’s most prestigious title.

Duhamel has gone on to win more than $9 million in additional cashes since that victory, although has been a notable absentee at the 2019 WSOP so far.

5.) John Cynn: $8,800,000

Rounding off our leaderboard is the reigning WSOP Main Event champion John Cynn whose 2018 victory netted him $8,800,000. All eyes were on Joe Cada at the final table because he won the 2009 WSOP Main Event and would have become the first player to win two such tournaments in the modern era.

Cada fell in fifth-place and Cynn went on to take the title and the life-changing sum of money after defeating Tony Miles on what was the 442nd hand of the final table action.

Another World Series of Poker (WSOP) in Las Vegas has come to a close with all but one of the 69 bracelets awarded. Nine players remain in the WSOP Main Event and they will return October 30 to determine the 2016 World Champion.

With the busiest schedule yet, the WSOP reached a new record number of entries in the series’ 47-year history. There were a total of 107,833 entries across the 69 events that ran from May 31 to July 19 and a total of $221,211,336 in prizes was paid to players.

There were players from 107 different countries including, of course, our Canadian contingent who made the trip south to play in the world’s biggest poker series. As usual, Canadians made up the second-largest portion of the field behind the dominating host nation. There were 4,586 Canadian entries this year which was, as predicted before the series began, a drop from last year.

There was one WSOP bracelet won by a Canadian this year. Kristen Bicknell won Event #46: $1,500 Bounty No-Limit Hold’em for $290,768. This was her second WSOP bracelet after winning the Ladies Event in 2013. Her victory marked the first bracelet awarded to a woman this summer. She also became the only Canadian woman to win a second bracelet, and the only Canadian woman to win an open WSOP event.

There is still one more Canadian hope for a bracelet — the biggest one of all. Griffin Benger has found a seat at the WSOP Main Event final table and is guaranteed at least $1 million for making it that far. But he’ll have his sights set on the title of World Champion which comes with $8 million and the final WSOP bracelet of the summer.

Canadian WSOP Attendance

Year	Total Entries	Countries Represented	Bracelet Events	American Entries (Bracelets)	Canadian Entries (Bracelets)
2016	107,833	107	69	84,027 (52)	4,586 (1)
2015	103,512	111	68	82,439 (46)	4,871 (4)
2014	82,360	107	65	78,165 (51)	6,045 (0)
2013	79,471	106	62	57,040 (41)	4,118 (10)

Despite the growth of the WSOP in both the number of events and the number of players, Canadian attendance is on a downward trend. This could be due to the current poor state of the Canadian dollar or the continued frustration for the tax deduction on prize money or the increased number of top-quality Canadian and European poker series that Canadians would rather play.

In other statistics, the average field size for WSOP events reached an all-time high of 1,563. The average age of players was 41 and female players made up just over five percent of tournament entries. There were three players who won two bracelets this summer: Jason Mercier, Benny Glaser, and Ian Johns all found victory twice.

The Main Event received 6,737 entries which was a five percent increase over last year. And Day 1c of the Main Event was the largest Main Event starting flight ever, receiving 4,240 entries in a single day.

The final Canadian hope of the summer is on Griffin Benger who will return to the felt on the big stage under the bright lights on October 30 to try to become the 2016 WSOP World Champion as the action is broadcast live around the world on ESPN across three nights.

_{Details and photo courtesy of WSOP.}

Get all the latest PokerNews Canada updates on social media. Follow us on Twitter and like us on Facebook!