2015 World Series of Poker Main Event Draws 6,420-Player Field

There were a number of fascinating story lines on day 1C, the third and final starting day of the 2015 World Series of Poker $10,000 no-limit hold’em main event. Breaking Bad star Aaron Paul took a seat in the world’s greatest poker tournament. Phil Ivey and Phil Hellmuth both drew table 256 in the green section for their starting table, bringing a combined $41,591,682 in live tournament earnings and 24 WSOP gold bracelets to the table on their own. When it comes down to it, though, the story of the day is that with registration now officially closed the final numbers for the event are in.

A total of 6,420 players posted the $10,000 buy-in with the hope of becoming poker’s next World Champion, building a prize pool of $60,348,000. The eventual champion will walk away with the title, the championship bracelet and $7,680,021. Day 1C was by far the largest of the tournament’s three starting days, drawing 3,963 players, the most of any single starting day in WSOP history. Attendance is down just under four percent when compared with 2014 but up slightly from the 2013 main event’s 6,352-player field.

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:

From the massive turnout for day 1C only 2,747 made it through to day 2C. The chip leader at the end of the day was John Gorsuch with 198,100. His nearest competitors were Zarik Megerdichian (180,400) and David Peyser (177,325).

Plenty of other big names survived and thrived as well, including recent WPT500 Aria winner Craig Varnell (140,750), reigning WSOP $10,000 heads-up no-limit hold’em champion Keith Lehr (138,600), Jared Bleznick (131,000), Dan Kelly (113,225), Steve Gross (112,450) and 2013 WSOP main event champ Ryan Riess (108,800).

Notables who failed to survive the day include reigning main event winner Martin Jacobson, Greg Merson, Doug Polk, Mike Sexton, Liv Boeree, Joe Cada and Mike Sexton.

Here is a look at the top ten chip counts heading into day 2C:

A complete listing of the Day 1C survivors and their chip counts can be found here.

For more coverage from the summer series, visit the 2015 WSOP landing page complete with a full schedule, news, player interviews and event recaps.

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