The final flight of the 2010 World Series of Poker Main Event has drawn to a close, with a further 2,391 players flocking to the Rio’s poker tables.
Day 1D’s attendance was the largest of the four flights, as has become the Main Event tradition and made for a total of 7,319 in all, making it the second largest WSOP Main Event field in history. Only 2006, the year that Jamie Gold lived up to his name, has seen more participants in the $10,000 No Limit Hold’em Championship Event, a tournament which has come a long way since its humble beginnings in 1971, when just six players stumped up the buy-in.
The winner that year was Johnny Moss and he picked up $30,000 for his poker playing efforts but this year, the 41st World Series of Poker Main Event champion will walk away with an $8.9 million payday, from a whopping $68 million total prize pool. Whoever that may be, they won’t be crowned until November – a change to the tournament format which was introduced in 2008, to a mixed reception.
Amazingly, this year’s series has seen a total of $187,109,850 in prize money, which has surpassed all previous records, prompting WSOP Vice President Ty Stewart to describe the event as “the most successful World Series of Poker in the event’s illustrious 41-year history”. The 57 tournaments attracted a total of 72,966 players, all hungry to pick up a WSOP bracelet and a place in poker history.
Poker player Dutch Boyd also had positive things to say about the World Series of Poker, declaring the WSOP Main Event as “the tournament to play”. He also said, “the WPT, NAPT and EPT are all good series, but they are nothing like the WSOP”.
Day 1D saw Steve “MrSmokey1″ Billirakis emerge as chip leader, with a stack that left him third in the overall Day 1 standings, behind James Danielson and overall leader Corwin Cole. Big names to survive until Day 2 included Phil Ivey, Jason Mercier, Josh Arieh, David Benyamine and Kara Scott. Some of the less fortunate poker professionals were brothers Tony and Joe Hachem, Phil Gordon and John Juanda.
Day 2A will see the return of 2,412 players from Days 1A and 1C, all of them vying for that coveted WSOP Main Event bracelet and a life changing sum of money.
Stay tuned for WSOP updates.
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