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The 2024 World Series of Poker $10,000 buy-in no-limit hold’em main event is officially the largest ever held in the storied 55-year history of the WSOP. The tournament drew 10,112 entries to beat the 10,043 made in 2023 by 69 players. Prior to last year, the highest turnout was the 8,773 entries made in 2006. While that record stood for nearly 17 years, the new high watermark was outstripped after just 12 months.
The staggering number of players who made their way to Paris and Horseshoe Las Vegas for this event built a final prize pool of $94,041,600, the richest of any poker tournament ever run. The top 1,517 finishers will make the money and earn a piece of that pot, with a min-cash once again being worth $15,000. A full list of the payouts is available on the tournament’s page in Card Player’s database.
The eventual champion of this historic event will be awarded $10,000,000. They will also take home the 2024 WSOP championship bracelet (pictured above), which was unveiled at the start of Monday’s Day 2D session by Jack Binion.
This marks the sixth time that a WSOP main event champion has earned an eight-figure payday, with this year’s winner joining 2023 world champion Daniel Weinman ($12,100,000), 2006 champion Jamie Gold ($12,000,000), 2022 champion Espen Jorstad ($10,000,000), 2019 champion Hossein Ensan ($10,000,000) and 2014 champion Martin Jacobson ($10,000,000).
The top nine finishers are all set to earn at least seven-figure paydays, with the runner-up taking home $6 million and the third-place finisher earning $6 million. The final six will all be multi-millionaires thanks to their deep runs in this tournament. In order to lock up a $100,000 payday or more, players will need to survive long enough to be one of the last 125 contenders.
Late registration was open through the start of level 8 on day 2D. A total of 618 entries were made on the final day available to players. Coming into Day 2D, there were 9,494 entries made across Days 1A through 1D and day 2ABC, which also offered late registration up through the start of the third level of the day (level 8 overall). Day 1D set a new record for the largest turnout of any starting flight with 5,014. The previous top turnout was the 4,879 entries made on Day 1C back in 2019.
Here is how the entries for this record-setting turnout break down by flight (with a comparison to 2023 numbers):
Day 1A – 915 (down 11.7 percent from 1,037 in 2023)
Day 1B – 831 (down 25.5 percent from 1,115 in 2023)
Day 1C – 2,528 (down 17.8 percent from 3,075 in 2023)
Day 1D – 5,014 (up 21.9 percent from 4,113 in 2023)
Day 2ABC – 206 (up 5.1 percent from 196 in 2023)
Day 2D – 618 (up 21.9 percent from 507 in 2023)
Total – 10,112 (up 0.7 percent from 10,043 in 2023)
Check out a video with the championship bracelet reveal from WSOP below:
Jack Binion, the visionary behind WSOP, joined us today to kick off the Shuffle Up and Deal and unveil the 2024 Main Event bracelet! #WSOP2024 pic.twitter.com/9tnb0jkwRU
— WSOP – World Series of Poker (@WSOP) July 8, 2024
Here is a look at the ten largest WSOP main events of all time (by field):
| Year | Champion | Entries | Prize Pool | Top Payout |
| 2024 | TBD | 10,112 | $94,041,600 | $10,000,000 |
| 2023 | Daniel Weinman | 10,043 | $93,399,900 | $12,100,000 |
| 2006 | Jamie Gold | 8,773 | $82,512,162 | $12,000,000 |
| 2022 | Espen Jorstdad | 8,663 | $80,782,475 | $10,000,000 |
| 2019 | Hossein Ensan | 8,569 | $80,548,600 | $10,000,000 |
| 2018 | John Cynn | 7,874 | $74,015,600 | $8,800,000 |
| 2010 | Jonathan Duhamel | 7,319 | $68,798,600 | $8,944,310 |
| 2017 | Scott Blumstein | 7,221 | $67,877,400 | $8,150,000 |
| 2011 | Pius Heinz | 6,865 | $64,531,000 | $8,715,638 |
| 2008 | Peter Eastgate | 6,844 | $64,333,600 | $9,152,416 |
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Bracelet photo via PokerGO / Miguel Cortes.
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