2016 World Series of Poker Main Event Draws 6,737 Entries

Registration has officially closed in the 2016 World Series of Poker $10,000 buy-in no-limit hold’em world championship main event, which means that the numbers for the world’s greatest poker tournament are finally in.

A total of 6,737 players came out this year to chase their dream of becoming the next World Champion, up 317 players compared with 2015. That is the largest turnout of the past five years and as a result this year’s prize pool swelled to $63,327,800. The eventual winner of this event will walk away with the title, the championship bracelet and $8,000,000. The top 1,011 finishers (15 percent of the field) will cash in the main event this year, with a min-cash being worth $15,000.

Day 1C was by far the largest of the tournament’s three starting days, setting a single-day record with 4,240 entries, the most of any single starting day in WSOP history.

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 3,252 made it through to day 2C. The chip leader at the end of the day was Timothy Sheehan with 394,100 . His nearest competitors were Adam Krach with 293,800 and Sergi Reixach with 265,400.

Plenty of recognizable names bagged up sizable stacked including 2010 WSOP main event third-place finisher Joseph Cheong (196,000), Dan Heimiller (184,100), Danny Steinberg (181,500), Sam Chartier (173,100), Matt Berkey (167,200), 2014 Aussie Millions champ Ami Barer (163,300) and recent WSOP $111,111 high roller for One Drop third-place finisher Koray Aldemir (160,900).

Former champions of this event who are still in with a chance at their second world championship include 2009 winner Joe Cada (111,500), 2015 winner Joe McKeehen (110,100), 2013 winner Ryan Reiss (82,700), 2014 champ Martin Jacobson (71,000), 2003 winner Chris Moneymaker (61,700), 1998 champion Scotty Nguyen (60,400), 1988 champ and all-time bracelet leader Phil Hellmuth (45,200), 2012 winner Greg Merson (24,300) and 2005 champ Joe Hachem (24,900).

Notables who failed to survive the day include two-time 2016 bracelet winner Jason Mercier, 2010 runner-up in this event John Racener, Phil Laak, Chance Kornuth, Samantha Abernathy, 2012 third-place finisher Jacob Balsiger, Layne Flack and 2011 third-place finisher Ben Lamb.

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 2016 WSOP landing page complete with a full schedule, news, player interviews and event recaps.

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