The 2023 World Series of Poker $10,000 buy-in no-limit maintain’em predominant occasion is formally the most important ever held.
With 10,043 complete gamers, this 12 months’s world championship drew 1,270 extra entries than the earlier report turnout of 8,773 made in 2006, a 14.5-percent improve. Thanks to the ocean of gamers that streamed into the Paris and Horseshoe Las Vegas for this event, the prize pool swelled to a report $93,399,900. That sum is about to be distributed among the many prime 1,507 finishers this 12 months, with a min-cash as soon as once more being price $15,000.
The eventual champion of this historic occasion might be awarded $12,100,000 to go together with the WSOP championship bracelet. It would be the largest prime prize ever paid out in the primary occasion, topping the $12,000,000 earned by 2006 world champion Jamie Gold.
The prime prize this 12 months solely will outstrip the prior report by $100,000, though this 12 months’s prize pool is sort of $10.9 million bigger than 2006’s. This is as a result of prime 15 p.c of the sector cashing this 12 months versus the ten p.c that did so again then.
This would be the fifth time {that a} WSOP predominant occasion champion has earned an eight-figure payday, with this 12 months’s winner becoming a member of Gold ($12,000,000), reigning champion Espen Jorstad ($10,000,000), 2019 champion Hossein Ensan ($10,000,000) and 2014 victor Martin Jacobson ($10,000,000).
The prime eight finishers will are all set to earn seven-figure paydays, with the runner-up taking dwelling $6.5 million and the third-place finisher incomes $4 million. The closing 5 will all be multi-millionaires due to their deep runs on this event. A full checklist of the payouts might be accessible on the occasion’s payout web page shortly.
Late registration was open by means of the beginning of degree 8 on day 2D. A complete of 507 entries had been made on the final day to see the full surpass the ten,000 milestone. Coming into the day, there have been 9,536 entries made by means of the 4 day 1 beginning flights and day 2ABC.
Below is a breakdown of the quantity of entries made on this record-demolishing occasion, by flight:
Day 1A – 1,037
Day 1B – 1,115
Day 1C – 3,075
Day 1D – 4,113
Day 2ABC – 196
Day 2D – 507
Here is a take a look at the ten largest WSOP predominant occasions of all time (by subject):
| Year | Champion | Entries | Prize Pool | Top Payout |
| 2023 | TBD | 10,043 | $93,399,900 | $12,100,000 |
| 2006 | Jamie Gold | 8,773 | $82,512,162 | $12,000,000 |
| 2022 | Espen Jorstdad | 8,663 | $80,782,475 | $10,000,000 |
| 2019 | Hossein Ensan | 8,569 | $80,548,600 | $10,000,000 |
| 2018 | John Cynn | 7,874 | $74,015,600 | $8,800,000 |
| 2010 | Jonathan Duhamel | 7,319 | $68,798,600 | $8,944,310 |
| 2017 | Scott Blumstein | 7,221 | $67,877,400 | $8,150,000 |
| 2011 | Pius Heinz | 6,865 | $64,531,000 | $8,715,638 |
| 2008 | Peter Eastgate | 6,844 | $64,333,600 | $9,152,416 |
| 2016 | Qui Nguyen | 6,737 | $63,327,800 | $8,005,310 |
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