The biggest stories of 2024 - a record breaking Main Event (again)
You wait 17 years to break the WSOP Main Event record and then it happens two years in a row (can we make it three?).
History repeated itself in Las Vegas as, for the 2nd year in a row, the attendance record for the Main Event was smashed.
10,112 unique players this time around, beating the 2023 record of 10,043. Helped in no small part due to the increased number of players choosing to late register on Day 2.
This is the breakdown of the starting days for the last three years:
| Day | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Day 1A | 900 | 1,080 | 915 |
| Day 1B | 880 | 1,118 | 830 |
| Day 1C | 1,800 | 3,080 | 2,441 |
| Day 1D | 4,481 | 4,072 | 5,014 |
| Day 2 | 602 | 693 | 912 |
The eventual winner was Jonathan Tamayo who took it down for $10 million (more on him in our next story recap).
| Place | Winner | Country | Prize (in USD) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jonathan Tamayo | United States | $10,000,000 |
| 2 | Jordan Griff | United States | $6,000,000 |
| 3 | Niklas Astedt | Sweden | $4,000,000 |
| 4 | Jason Sagle | Canada | $3,000,000 |
| 5 | Boris Angelov | Bulgaria | $2,500,000 |
| 6 | Andres Gonzalez | Spain | $2,000,000 |
| 7 | Brian Kim | United States | $1,500,000 |
| 8 | Joe Serock | United States | $1,250,000 |
| 9 | Malo Latinois | France | $1,000,000 |
Can we break the record in 2025? Well, we have just had a very impressive series of record-breaking fields in Prague, Vegas and the Bahamas suggesting live poker still has room to grow. Don't bet against it.
Will 2025 be a record breaker? Let us know in the comments:
