6,650 players have entered the WSOP Main Event
With the final few late registrations in we have the final numbers and payouts for the $10,000 World Series of Poker Main Event.
1,810 players started on Day 2CEF with 915 making it to Day 3 where the entire field will combine. The total field stands at 6,650 of which 2,355 players remain.
The top 1,000 finishers will receive a mincash of $15,000 and the top 63 finalists will take home six-figures.
The real money, however, is at the final table and this is how it will payout:
| Position | Prize |
|---|---|
| 1st | $8,000,000 |
| 2nd | $4,300,000 |
| 3rd | $3,000,000 |
| 4th | $2,300,000 |
| 5th | $1,800,000 |
| 6th | $1,400,000 |
| 7th | $1,225,000 |
| 8th | $1,100,000 |
| 9th | $1,000,000 |
This is quite a top heavy payout structure for the Main Event with 1st getting almost double that of 2nd. No doubt the final table payouts were tinkered with to get a nice clean marketable figure of $8 million for the champion.
All in all this is a very impressive turnout for an event which was in doubt right up until the start of the series because of the obvious disruption caused by the pandemic.
The highlight of Day 2CEF was this insane televised hand where Pat Lyons, mid interview, calls a shove blind to show off for the camera. This is what makes the Main Event such a unique and profitable tournament:
Just an interview with @PatLyonsPoker that includes him playing a hand blind and calling an all-in (still blind) in the World Series of Poker Main Event no big deal pic.twitter.com/8F9VEdINJd
— Jeff Platt (@jeffplatt) November 11, 2021
The overall chip leader heading into Day 3 is Conrad De Armas who bagged 744,000 chips. Other notables among the Day 2CEF big stacks include Matt Glantz, Chris Moneymaker, Qui Nguyen, Robert Mizrachi, Ted Forrest, Liv Boeree and Barry Greenstein. The entire field returns today for Day 3 from 11AM local time.
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