2016 World Series of Poker Colossus II Draws 21,613 Entries$10,806,500 Prize Pool To Be Split Among 3,425 Players That Will Make The Money |
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The final numbers are in for the 2016 World Series of Poker Colossus II $565 buy-in no-limit hold’em event. After six starting flights a total of 21,613 entries were made, the second most in live tournament poker history behind only last year’s inaugural running of this tournament which set the record with 22,374.
Although the record was not beaten this time around, the massive turnout still easily surpassed the event’s $7 million guarantee to build a $10,806,500 prize pool. The Colossus II did set another record, though. A total of 3,245 players will cash in this event, the most ever in any live poker tournament.
While the first running might have drawn more players this year’s Colossus might be more of a success from a purely logistical standpoint.
“Last year the turnout far exceeded our expectations,” said Vice President of corporate communications for Caesars Interactive Entertainment Seth Palanksy. “The payouts became a nightmare for many of the people that cashed last year, so this year we knew we had to have a new system. We increased the amount of levels played on day 1. We also made it so that players got into the money on day 1 so that we could pay out those flights so you don’t have 2,000 people in line at the same time like last year.”
“Everything was looked at and adjusted in order to handle a 20,000-player field size efficiently. We added a third day of starting flights, not believing that it would increase the field size necessarily, but to help spread out the number of people having to wait in lines to register or get their payouts.”
“Everything worked as anticipated. In typical poker fashion the biggest day was the last day, but we put 10,000 players through this building today and it almost felt like a church,” said Palansky. “The lines were minimal, everything operated smoothly, so it was a big success from our standpoint.”
The official breakdown of the payouts for the Colossus II won’t be available until Sunday, but the first-place prize is guaranteed to be at least $1 million, up from the $638,880 that went to champion Cord Garcia last year.
Here is a breakdown of the turnouts for each of the six starting flights in this event:
Flight A: 3,249
Flight B: 2,153
Flight C: 3,770
Flight D: 3,099
Flight E: 4,855
Flight F: 4,487
The survivors from the starting flights will combine into one field on day 2, with play resuming at 2 pm.
For more coverage from the summer series, visit the 2016 WSOP landing page complete with a full schedule, news, player interviews and event recaps.
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