Registration hasn’t closed but we have already broken a record in the $10,000 World Series of Poker Main Event.
All four Day 1s are in the history books at the 2024 World Series of Poker Main Event, and no matter what happens a record has been broken.
The numbers are rough at the time of writing, but 5,014 players bought in on Day 1D, which is the largest starting Day 1 in WSOP Main Event history.
That brought the total numbers up to roughly 9,200 so far in the Main Event, meaning that no matter what this is the 2nd biggest Main Event in poker history. Bigger than the 2012 Main Event with 8,773 runners that took 12 years to beat.
| 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 | TBD |
There is still a chance we could see the biggest Main Event in history too. Late registration is still open across two Day 2s running right now. It would take over 1,000 late registrations to do it, and in previous years the most we had on the combined Day 2s was 693. The current record set last year was 10,043 entries in total.
Can this still break last year’s record? Let us know in the comments:
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