Money Bubble Looms After Day 3 Of The Largest World Series of Poker Main Event Ever Held1,529 Players Remain From The Record 10,112 Turnout With The Top 1,517 Set To Cash |
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The 2024 World Series of Poker $10,000 buy-in no-limit hold’em main event is the largest ever held, with 10,112 entries resulting in a record prize pool of $94,041,600. After the completion of day 3, the remaining field of 1,529 players is painstakingly close to making the money and locking up a share of that massive sum.
It will take just twelve more eliminations on day 4 to ensure that the 1,517 remaining contenders will all earn at least $15,000 for their efforts in this historic event. Of course, they will all still have their eyes on the $10,000,000 top prize and the championship bracelet.
The chip leader heading into day 4 is Francisco Perez Moreno of Spain with 2,187,000 (273 big blinds). He has nearly $530,000 in career cashes to his name, with his top score being a $140,584 payday for a third-place showing in a $1,600 event at last year’s Venetian DeepStack Championship Poker Series.
Other big stacks include Justin Datloff (1,819,000), and 2019 WSOP main event third place finisher Alex Livingston (1,808,000). The Canadian earned $4,000,000 for that deep run, and is now well situated for another strong showing with 226 big blinds heading into day 4. He’ll be looking to earn his second gold bracelet, having won the WSOP $1,500 stud event back in 2022.
Other big names that bagged healthy stacks include eight-time WSOP Circuit ring winner Matt Stout (1,670,000), recent WSOP $800 Independence Day event champion Francis Anderson (1,655,000, and Ren Lin (1,570,000). Lin has nearly $11.9 million in career earnings, and is a top Card Player Player of the Year contender in 2024, but has yet to secure a victory at the WSOP.
Plenty of other notables bagged more than a million heading into day 4, including Will Failla (1,390,000), bracelet winner Alex Keating (1,376,000), JC Alvarado (1,360,000), 2019 WSOP Europe main event champion Alex Kolonias (1,310,000) bracelet winner Nacho Barbero (1,289,000), two-time bracelet winner Jans Arends (1,189,000), and five-time bracelet winner Adam Friedman (43rd).
Several previous champions of this tournament are still in with a shot at earning a second main event title, including 2021 champion Koray Aldemir (443,000), 2015 champion Joe McKeehen (420,000), 2017 champion Scott Blumstein (299,000), 2022 champion Espen Jorstad (136,000), and reigning champion Daniel Weinman (82,000).
Card Player caught up with Weinman midway through day 3 to discuss defending his title.
Day 3 started with 3,617 players remaining. Among the over 2,000 that were eliminated during the course of play were four-time bracelet winner Mike Matusow, 2012 main event champion Greg Merson, five-time bracelet winner Nick Schulman, bracelet winner Andrew Lichtenberger, bracelet winner Mikita Badziakouski, and 2017 Super High Roller Bowl champion Christoph Vogelsang.
The final 1,529 players will return for day 4 at noon on Wednesday, July 10. Players will sit down to blinds of 4,000-8,000 with an 8,000 big blind ante for level 16. The average stack of 398,110 will represent just shy of 50 big blinds when action resumes in the largest main event ever held.
Here is a look at the top ten chip stacks heading into day 4:
| Rank | Player | Chips |
| 1 | Francisco Perez Moreno | 2,187,000 |
| 2 | Justin Datloff | 1,819,000 |
| 3 | Alex Livingston | 1,808,000 |
| 4 | Marcelo Tadeu Aziz Junior | 1,697,000 |
| 5 | Matt Stout | 1,670,000 |
| 6 | Francis Anderson | 1,655,000 |
| 7 | Nazar Buhaiov | 1,631,000 |
| 8 | Diogo Coelho | 1,631,000 |
| 9 | Ren Lin | 1,570,000 |
| 10 | Clement Van Driessche | 1,552,000 |
A full listing of chip counts can be found here.
Payouts for the 2024 WSOP main event:
| Place | Payout |
| 1 | $10,000,000 |
| 2 | $6,000,000 |
| 3 | $4,000,000 |
| 4 | $3,000,000 |
| 5 | $2,500,000 |
| 6 | $2,000,000 |
| 7 | $1,500,000 |
| 8 | $1,250,000 |
| 9 | $1,000,000 |
| 10 – 11 | $800,000 |
| 12 – 13 | $600,000 |
| 14 – 17 | $450,400 |
| 18 – 26 | $350,000 |
| 27 – 35 | $300,000 |
| 36 – 44 | $250,000 |
| 45 – 53 | $200,000 |
| 54 – 62 | $160,000 |
| 63 – 71 | $140,000 |
| 72 – 80 | $120,000 |
| 81 – 125 | $100,000 |
| 126 – 134 | $85,000 |
| 135 – 162 | $70,000 |
| 163 – 224 | $60,000 |
| 225 – 287 | $50,000 |
| 288 – 311 | $45,000 |
| 312 – 350 | $45,000 |
| 351 – 413 | $40,000 |
| 414 – 476 | $37,500 |
| 477 – 539 | $35,000 |
| 540 – 602 | $32,500 |
| 603 – 665 | $30,000 |
| 666 – 764 | $27,500 |
| 765 – 863 | $25,000 |
| 864 – 950 | $22,500 |
| 951 – 1,008 | $20,000 |
| 1,009 – 1,250 | $17,500 |
| 1,251 – 1,517 | $15,000 |
Bracelet photo credit: PokerGO / Miguel Cortes.
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