- All the Day 1s have now bee completed and the WSOP ME field starts the first Day 2.
- The final Day 1 produced the largest ever Day 1 field, but overall numbers are down on last year.
- The prize money is now set, with the winner due to take home over $8.3m.
It was another historic day at the World Series of Poker on Monday when 3,467 players took their seats on the final flight of Day 1’s for the $10,000 No-Limit Hold’em Main Event.
With large turnouts for the mega satellites in the past few days, officials were expecting a healthy turn out for Day 1c but the actual figure turned out to be the largest starting day in Main Event history and bolstered the final number of participants to a total of 6,352.
Though the number of runners may be down from the nearly 6,600 of 2012, the tournament is still one of the richest in history, and will award its eventual winner a life-altering $8,359,531. In fact, 7 of the eventual November 9 will walk away millionaires, while a mincash in the event is worth a respectable $19,106.
As you might imagine, though it’s early, some big names are already wielding big stacks. Day 1c had its own share of pros amassing chips as Michael “The Grinder Mizrachi, Joseph Cheong, Isaac Haxton, Haralabos Voulgaris, Freddy Deeb, Randy Lew, Vivek Rajkumar, Phil Collins and Vanessa Selbst all bagged and tagged over 100k in chips from Day 1c. The chip leader on the day was poker veteran Mark “P0ker H0” Kroon who leads all players with nearly 247,000.
Phil Hellmuth and Phil Ivey were in also action on Day 1c, both more than tripling their stacks with Hellmuth sitting at just under 100k while Ivey has nearly 120k.
While that elite list will be waiting for Wednesday, there’s a ton of notable players with healthy stacks who are ready to restart today, including the reigning champion Greg Merson who amassed over 80k on Day 1a. Joining him today will be the likes of Daniel Cates, Nick Maimone, Richard Lyndaker, Olivier Busquet, Dan Fleyshman, Sorel Mizzi, Annette Obrestad, Eoghan O’ Dea and Liv Boeree, among many others.
At the start of Day 2 there’s 4,186 players left vying to make it into the money, with Day 1a and 1b combining today for the first of two Day 2’s, retuning today at 12PM PST. The survivors of Day 1c will return on Wednesday and the entire field will be on the felt at the same time this Thursday.
Action for the 44th Annual WSOP Main Event continues with updates available on WSOP.com.
