2014 World Series Of Poker Main Event Draws Total Field Of 6,683Phil Ivey Among Chip Leaders At End Of Day 1C |
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The official numbers for the 2014 World Series of Poker main event are in! A total of 3,768 players turned out on day 1C, bringing the grand total to 6,683 entrants. That’s the fifth largest in the history of the event, up over 5 percent when compared to 2013’s 6,352-player turnout.
The top 693 players will make the money, with $10,000,000 going to the eventual champion, as the WSOP guaranteed before the event began. That means that the eventual champion will earn the second largest payday in the history of the main event, losing out only to the $12,000,000 payday that Jamie Gold scored when he took down the main event in 2006.
To give the event’s final numbers some context, here is a look at the numbers for the main event over the past ten years:
| Year | No. of Entries | Champion | First-Place Prize |
| 2005 | 5,619 | Joe Hachem | $7,500,000 |
| 2006 | 8,773 | Jamie Gold | $12,000,000 |
| 2007 | 6,358 | Jerry Yang | $8,250,000 |
| 2008 | 6,844 | Peter Eastgate | $9,152,416 |
| 2009 | 6,494 | Joe Cada | $8,547,042 |
| 2010 | 7,319 | Jonathan Duhamel | $8,944,310 |
| 2011 | 6,865 | Pius Heinz | $8,715,638 |
| 2012 | 6,598 | Greg Merson | $8,531,853 |
| 2013 | 6,352 | Ryan Riess | $8,361,570 |
| 2014 | 6,683 | TBD | $10,000,000 |
The huge turnout on day 1C forced the WSOP to make some changes to how things normally operated in order to accommodate all of the players. The 6:00 PM daily deepstacks tournament was pushed back an hour and tables were also put into action in an overflow area just outside of Buzio’s seafood restaurant. But in the end everything went smoothly considering the staggering numbers and no players were turned away, which happened in 2009.
The chip leader at the end of day 1C was Eric Tracey with 206,175. Close behind was none other than ten-time gold bracelet winner Phil Ivey (187,025), with Card Player Poker Tour Foxwoods main event champion Ron Pease also among the biggest stacks at the end of the day.
Plenty of other big names survived and thrived, including Ali Eslami (132,800), Daniel Negreanu (129,250), Blair Hinkle (125,000), McLean Karr (121,075), Daniel Alaei (117,275), Phil Hellmuth (49,425) and 2014 Big One For One Drop champ Dan Colman (49,225).
Notables who failed to survive the day include Sam Trickett, Phil Collins, 2004 champion Greg Raymer, 2007 champion Jerry Yang and Tom Dwan.
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