GaF Posted June 4, 2007 Share Posted June 4, 2007 2007 World Series of Poker Huge WSOP field The 2007 World Series of Poker is underway at the Rio in Las Vegas, with staggering playing numbers By Nolan Dalla June 2007 The 2007 World Series of Poker has kicked off with a real bang, and continues to astonish and set new records. The largest number of poker players ever to enter a non-main event at the WSOP packed into the Rio All-Suite Casino and Hotel on 2 June. The third event of this year’s World Series attracted a whopping 2,998 entries. The number shattered the old record of 2,891 set at last year’s WSOP. The previous record was set in Event #17 – the $1,000 buy-in no-limit hold’em championship, won by Jon Friedberg. For this event, each player paid a $1,500 entry fee and will be playing no-limit hold’em. The tournament is expected to last three days. First place will pay the winner $727,012. Overall, 308 players will receive prize money. By comparison, the first $1,500 buy-in no-limit hold’em tournament of 2006 attracted 2,776 participants. Hence, the new record represents an increase of about seven percent over the same event held the previous year. The largest poker tournament in history remains the 2006 WSOP $10,000 buy-in championship event, with 8,773 players. The second-largest of all-time is the 2005 WSOP championship event, with 5,619 players. Accordingly, this latest event ranks at the third largest poker tournament of all-time. . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
staffy Posted June 4, 2007 Share Posted June 4, 2007 Re: Huge Field WSOP 2007 Amazing. They wont have the room soon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slapdash Posted June 4, 2007 Share Posted June 4, 2007 Re: Huge Field WSOP 2007 It will be interesting to see how many the Main Event gets. I wonder if part of the reason for increased numbers in the other events is that, with reduced opportunities to qualify online for the ME, lots of Americans have decided to buy in to the cheaper events instead? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GaF Posted June 4, 2007 Author Share Posted June 4, 2007 Re: Huge Field WSOP 2007 With a few Poker rooms still accepting US players, are there really fewer Americans playing online? :unsure No reason to be ..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slapdash Posted June 4, 2007 Share Posted June 4, 2007 Re: Huge Field WSOP 2007 With a few Poker rooms still accepting US players' date=' are there really fewer Americans playing online? :unsure No reason to be .....[/quote'] Don't know, really. There are probably some who just played on one site (thinking of Party, particularly) and who haven't started to play on another site for whatever reason. Also some have probably stopped playing online (either permanently or temporarily) because it's become much harder to deposit/withdraw. There may even be a few who've stopped because they're afraid that they'd be thrown in jail! Also, even if there are the same number of Americans playing online, that doesn't necessarily mean that there are the same number of opportunities to qualify for the WSOP ME. I know Poker Stars are sending more players than before to the WSOP, but I think there's some question about how they're going to register their qualifiers, which may put some people off. And I seem to recall that some sites are just paying the buy-in to qualifying players in cash and allowing them to do what they want with it (in some cases only paying expenses if the player takes part in the ME). There could well be some players who've decided that they'll get more value by buying in to several cheaper events. But this is just speculation. I don't really have any idea. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GB80 Posted June 5, 2007 Share Posted June 5, 2007 Re: Huge Field WSOP 2007 And I seem to recall that some sites are just paying the buy-in to qualifying players in cash and allowing them to do what they want with it (in some cases only paying expenses if the player takes part in the ME). There could well be some players who've decided that they'll get more value by buying in to several cheaper events. I think this will be the main reason its down. To have $10,000 sitting in your poker account/bank account, its very tempting to just nibble into it a couple of times to enter a tournament or buy a few things with it. Some people will just take it and have no intention of playing in the main event, while others will intend to play but end up not having enough left. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McG Posted June 5, 2007 Share Posted June 5, 2007 Re: Huge Field WSOP 2007 Linked in to this, the current Bodog/Rounders Radio offer gives the winner the option of taking $10k cash, as opposed to having a ticket for the main event plus $2k expenses, plus a further $1k if you actually turn up. When you saw the relief on some players' faces in previous years when they realised that they had made the money in the ME (top 840 or whatever last year), you sense that more and more novice players, who have won seats in the past, would now rather just take the $10k and run to the bank. As a matter of interest, are there any statistics on how many players have actually coughed up $10k themselves in previous years, or has it all been 1 huge marketing drive and satellite reward by the poker sites? McG :gimme Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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