WPT World Championship Sets Field-Size Record, Misses Guarantee By $2.4 Million

This August the World Poker Tour introduced that the 2023 WPT World Championship at Wynn Las Vegas would function a $40,000,000 assure, the biggest in poker match historical past. This bold purpose did certainly encourage an enormous turnout. A complete of three,835 entries have been made throughout the $10,400 buy-in no-limit maintain’em match’s 4 beginning flights earlier than registration closed on Friday, Dec. 15. This set a brand new report for the biggest subject in WPT essential tour historical past, blowing away the two,960 entries made in final 12 months’s inaugural working of this occasion with a 29.6 % year-over-year improve.

The breakdown of this 12 months’s beginning flights was as follows:

Day 1A: 609 entries
Day 1B: 730 entries
Day 1C: 973 entries
Day 1D: 1,523 entries

While this 12 months’s subject measurement was a brand new high-water mark for the tour, it was nonetheless not fairly sufficient to fulfill the unprecedented $40 million assure. Each entry added $9,800 to the prize pool, leading to $37,583,000 for an overlay of $2,417,000.

The $40 million will probably be paid out among the many prime 480 finishers, with a min-cash good for $18,700 whereas the eventual champion will stroll away with $5,678,000. The winner can even earn a seat into subsequent 12 months’s working of this occasion.

The prime 48 finishers will money for not less than six figures, whereas all six gamers to make the televised ultimate desk will all earn seven-figure scores. A full itemizing of the payouts will be discovered on the backside of this text.

This was removed from the primary time that an eight-figure assure was missed lately. The 2018 Caribbean Poker Party essential occasion missed its $10 million assure by over $900,000, whereas the 2014 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open essential occasion overlayed by $2.5 million after hitting the identical $10 million assure in its inaugural working the 12 months prior.

The WPT confronted loads of competitors from different prime excursions, with each the principle occasions of the inaugural World Series of Poker Paradise and the European Poker Tour Prague stops overlapping with the WPT World Championship. The WSOP Paradise $5,300 essential occasion had its personal lofty $15 million assure, which was technically surpassed (with the three % workers payment counting in the direction of assembly the assure) after drawing 3,010 entries. Over within the Czech Republic, a record-setting turnout of 1,285 entries made this 12 months’s ongoing EPT Prague essential occasion the biggest within the historical past of the €5,300 buy-in match.

All instructed, these three overlapping essential occasions can have paid out greater than $61 million in complete prize cash between them.

2023 WPT World Championship at Wynn Las Vegas Payouts:

1st: $5,678,000
2nd: $3,772,200
third: $2,798,700
4th: $2,095,300
fifth: $1,583,100
sixth: $1,207,000
seventh: $928,900
eighth: $721,600
Ninth-Tenth: $566,900
Eleventh-Twelfth: $456,500
Thirteenth-14th: $363,300
Fifteenth-Sixteenth: $291,700
Seventeenth-Twentieth: $236,300
Twenty first-Twenty fourth: $193,100
Twenty fifth-Thirty second: $159,200
Thirty third-Fortieth: $132,500
Forty first-Forty eighth: $111,300
Forty ninth-56th: $94,400
57th-Sixty fourth: $80,700
Sixty fifth-72nd: $69,700
73rd-Eightieth: $60,800
81st-88th: $53,500
89th-104th: $47,100
One hundred and fifth-One hundred and twentieth: $41,900
121st-136th: $37,600
137th-152nd: $34,100
153rd-168th: $31,300
169th-184th: $28,900
185th-208th: $27,000
209th-232nd: $25,500
233rd-264th: $24,400
265th-296th: $23,200
297th-328th: $22,200
329th-360th: $21,200
361st-408th: $20,200
409th-444th: $19,300
445th-480th: $18,700

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