Because it turned out, the $15 million assure within the WPT World Championship was merely a place to begin. At round 7 p.m. PT throughout Wednesday’s Day 1c session, registration closed with 2,960 complete entries, making a World Poker Tour record-setting prize pool of $29,008,000.
On the ultimate Day 1 beginning flight, there have been 1,280 gamers, lots of whom had already fired no less than one bullet on this historic occasion. The event at Wynn Las Vegas has been a rousing success, to say the least. Simply check out these stats from the primary ever $10,400 purchase in WPT World Championship.
- Largest non-WSOP Predominant Occasion prize pool in historical past for a reside event with a purchase in beneath $1 million.
- Fourth largest non-WSOP Predominant Occasion prize pool ever no matter purchase in.
- Most entrants in a WPT Predominant Tour occasion.
- Largest WPT prize pool ever.
- twenty first largest reside event prize pool ever (consists of WSOP Predominant Occasion).
- Most entrants in a five-figure purchase in reside event (excludes WSOP Predominant Occasion).
- Excluding World Sequence of Poker occasions, it’s the largest prize pool in Las Vegas historical past.
A Event for the Ages
The biggest prize pool in poker historical past was the 2006 WSOP Predominant Occasion — $82,512,162 — received by Jamie Gold for $12 million. Excluding poker’s longest-standing annual event, the subsequent greatest pot was the 2019 Triton Million, a £1,000,000 purchase in with £54,000,000 ($65,660,000) up for grabs.
However there’s by no means been a event fairly just like the WPT World Championship. It is the primary non-WSOP $10k to even come near reaching a $30 million prize pool, and it almost doubled a lofty assured prize pool.
The construct up and hype for this occasion was intense. Thanks largely to the advertising and marketing efforts and preparation of the staffs throughout the WPT and on the Wynn, the event truly exceeded the hype.
Ivey, Hellmuth Take a Crack at World Poker Tour Glory
Phil Ivey
WPT ambassador Phil Ivey was amongst those that took a seat within the remaining Day 1 session. Sadly, for arguably the best participant in poker historical past, he was eradicated late within the day. Becoming a member of the two-time WPT champion amongst those that could not discover a bag included Bryn Kenney, Dylan Linde, Ema Zajmovic, Liv Boeree, and Shaun Deeb.
Phil Hellmuth, nonetheless, bagged chips — fairly a number of of them, actually. The host of the WPT’s “Uncooked Deal” phase completed with 225,000 chips, which does not put him up close to the highest of the leaderboard, however it’s good for 45 huge blinds. Not a foul bounce again for the “Poker Brat” following his latest loss to Jason Koon in a $1.6 million heads up match on PokerGO’s Excessive Stakes Duel III present.
Hellmuth did sufficient to advance, however he did not come near the chip chief — Krasimir Yankov — who left the Wynn with 1,062,000, the one participant within the discipline of 1,280 to bag a seven-figure stack. Justin Bonomo racked up 1,011,000 on Day 1a, whereas Aryan Oliveira went on a heater to the tune of 1,551,000 chips on Day 1b and can enter Day 2 with a large chip lead.
WPT World Championship Day 1c High Chip Counts
| 1 | Krasimir Yankov | 1,062,000 |
| 2 | Nissar Quraishi | 969,000 |
| 3 | Adnan Mohammad | 958,000 |
| 4 | Tim Reilly | 943,000 |
*Official outcomes and full chip counts will not be launched by the on line casino till Thursday morning.
The winner of the WPT World Championship, to be topped Dec. 20, will take residence a whopping $4,136,000, and the runner up will obtain $2,830,000. All six members of the ultimate desk can be paid greater than $1 million.
In complete, the highest 370 finishers will receives a commission, with the minimal money set at $17,400. With the blinds shifting to 2,500/5,000 (5,000 huge blind ante) when play resumes at 11 a.m. on Thursday, gamers will start to bust shortly, which suggests there is a sturdy risk the cash bubble will bust earlier than Day 3. There have been 1,212 complete entries who superior to Day 2.
