This 12 months’s World Poker Tour World Championship essential occasion was the primary within the match’s three-year historical past to not function a headline-grabbing assure. The inaugural working of the $10,400 buy-in no-limit maintain’em occasion, hosted at Wynn Las Vegas in 2022, sported a $15 million assure that was practically doubled. The following 12 months, organizers set a lofty $40 million aim and fell simply brief, leading to a $2.4 million overlay.
In 2024, the occasion was going up in opposition to each the World Series of Poker Paradise’s record-setting $50 million assured Super Main Event and the tail finish of the European Poker Tour Prague essential occasion. Despite this main competitors, the WPT World Championship managed to attract 2,392 whole entries, leading to a remaining prize pool of $23,441,600.
While this was the smallest turnout but for the occasion, it’s nonetheless an enormous subject at this value level, particularly given the shortage of a assure.
The prime 299 finishers are set to make the cash, with the highest prize sitting at $3,138,900. The final 39 gamers standing will all earn a minimum of six-figure paydays, with seven-figure scores for the ultimate 4.
The match featured three beginning flights, with 751 entries on day 1A, one other 681 on day 1B, and at last 960 from day 1C.
There are greater than 800 gamers set to return for day 2 motion on Tuesday, Dec. 17. More than 500 eliminations stand between them and the min-cash of $19,600. Play will resume at midday, with 5 90-minute ranges on the schedule earlier than the day involves an finish.
Here is a have a look at the complete payouts for the occasion:
1st: $3,138,900
2nd: $2,075,000
third: $1,550,000
4th: $1,150,000
fifth: $875,000
sixth: $665,000
seventh: $515,000
eighth: $400,000
Ninth-Tenth: $310,000
Eleventh-Twelfth: $255,000
Thirteenth-Fifteenth: $215,000
Sixteenth-Nineteenth: $176,000
Twentieth-Twenty third: $146,000
Twenty fourth-Thirty first: $121,000
Thirty second-Thirty ninth: $101,000
Fortieth-Forty seventh: $85,000
Forty eighth-Fifty fifth: $71,000
56th-63rd: $59,000
Sixty fourth-79th: $50,000
Eightieth-99th: $42,000
One hundredth-A hundred and twentieth: $35,500
121st-One hundred and fiftieth: $29,500
151st-192nd: $25,000
193rd-240th: $21,600
241st-299th: $19,600
Photo credit score: WPT.
