WSOP Main Event Starts TodayWinner Will Receive About $10 Million |
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It's the night before the World Series of Poker's main event here at the Rio in Las Vegas and the Amazon Room is simply stuffed to the rafters with people gearing up for the biggest poker tournament to ever take place on Earth.
It's been known for months that this year's main event would shatter last year's record of 5,619 players. Aussie Joe Hachem won the whole damn thing and the $7.5 million that came with the bracelet. This year, the winner will receive a newly designed WSOP bracelet, a watch, and around $10 million.
As of 11 p.m. Thursday night, close to 8,000 players had entered. According to a shift manager in the Amazon room, where this year's WSOP events are taking place, the Rio has enough room for 8,800 people. There's a good chance they'll approach that. It seems like the line to the registration cage has been perpetually long all day, and there's no sign of it ending.
Day one of play begins at noon Friday, July 28, when the first group of 2,000 players (or more) plays down to 800. This will happen four times, as groups A, B, C and D all play down from 2,000 to 800. On Tuesday, the 1,600 players of group A and B will play down to 700. Groups C and D do the same thing Wednesday.
On Thursday, the players get a day of rest so that everyone starts fresh and fair, so it won't be until next Friday that all the players who will compete for the main event bracelet will be playing in the same room, a full week after the tournament began.
Then it's just a matter of division, as play will continue each day until about half the field is eliminated. The final table of nine takes place Thursday, Aug. 10. That's how long it's going to take to crown a winner.
Now it's time to get the cards in the air.
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