The 2024 World Series of Poker is now within the books and sequence officers have launched some numbers from the pageant that present simply how huge the sequence turned out.
This 12 months’s sequence produced a number of new WSOP and dwell event poker information. That included Jonathan Tamayo, of Humble, Texas, popping out on prime of the biggest most important occasion subject ever with 10,112 gamers and a $10 million first-place prize. The event additionally noticed the biggest prize pool for a single occasion in dwell event poker historical past at simply over $94 million.
“It’s special to see the passion for poker continue to deliver records on an annual basis,” WSOP Senior Vice President and Executive Director Ty Stewart mentioned. “The laundry list of records that were shattered this summer at the WSOP continue to show that the poker renaissance is upon us.”
Big Numbers
WSOP officers additionally made be aware of a number of different information and accomplishments. In whole, the sequence produced 229,553 entries from all tournaments, probably the most all-time. The most important occasion set a single-day entrants file on July 6, with 5,014 gamers as a part of flight 1D.
The prize pool for the $25,000 PLO High Roller grew to become the biggest pot-limit Omaha prize pool in dwell event poker historical past at $11.2 million, whereas the $1,000 Mystery Bounty PLO grew to become the biggest pot-limit Omaha subject with 4,280 entries.
The 10,939 entries within the Millionaire Maker set a file for the biggest $1,500 buy-in subject in dwell event poker historical past. The 3,177 entries for the Mid-Stakes Championship grew to become the biggest $3,000 buy-in subject ever.
A complete of 34,717 locations have been paid on the 2024 WSOP, topping final 12 months’s whole of 32,282 for a brand new file.
This 12 months’s WSOP additionally set the file for the variety of occasions exceeding $2 million prize swimming pools at 54 and a file for $10 million prize swimming pools at seven.
In associated information, sequence officers additionally lately introduced the official schedule for the WSOP Circuit and motion is now already underway on the Choctaw Casino in Oklahoma. Details for the December WSOP Paradise within the Bahamas was additionally launched final week, which features a large $50 million assure.
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JackEffel</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/WSOP?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">WSOP for placing on an exquisite occasion once more this 12 months. The flooring workers was excellent this 12 months and high quality of sellers was pretty much as good because it’s ever been. Thank you to all who labored the WSOP— David Baker (@audavidb) July 18, 2024
