2018 WSOP Main Event Draws Second-Largest Field Ever

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The 2018 WSOP Main Event is officially the second-largest Main Event in history. Three flights of Day 1s yielded 7,874 participants in this year’s edition of the most famous poker tournament in the world.

That amount of runners eclipsed the previous silver medalist, the 2010 event, by almost 500 entries. However, the 2006 event and its 8,773 participants remains unchallenged as the largest WSOP Main Event ever.

This year’s group is competing for a prize pool of $74,15,600. The winner of the tournament will earn $8,800,000, and every final tablist will win at least $1 million.

Second-largest field doesn’t mean second-largest top prize

Interestingly, that first prize figure is only the fifth-largest in Main Event history. Obviously, Jamie Gold‘s 2006 win remains the largest at $12 million.

However, the 2nd highest payout went to 2014’s champion, Martin Jacobson. His $10 million prize came from only the eighth-largest field of all time.

The reason for the disparity in payouts is due to tinkering on the part of the WSOP management. For the 2014 event, the powers-that-be declared that they wanted first prize to be $10 million.

In order to achieve such a high payout,...

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