2019 WSOP Day 39: Main Event to Be Second-Largest in History

The big question from many poker fans is simple: Why don’t we have a final number of entries, the prize pool and payouts from the WSOP Main Event yet?
The answer is simple as well. The WSOP offered late registration this year. Players could register up through the start of Day 2, and that late registration pertained to both Day 2 flights. The last of them is today, so the WSOP should be able to release its final numbers by the end of Sunday.
Until then, it’s all about the survivors of the long days of poker action.
On Saturday, July 6, this is what happened at the 50th Annual World Series of Poker in Las Vegas.
Event 73: $10K NLHE Main Event – Day 2AB
Day 1A entries: 1,334
Day 1B entries: 1,914
Day 1C entries: 4,877
Day 2AB late entries: 100
Total entries thus far: 8,225
Prize pool: at least $77 million
Players paid: TBD
Minimum payout: TBD
Winner payout: TBD
Day 1A players remaining: 966
Day 1B players remaining: 1,417
Day 1C players remaining: 3,664
Day 2AB players remaining: approximately 1,100
Day 2AB chip leader: Timothy Su (USA) – 791,000 chips
Day 2C starting time: 11am
Day 3 starting time: Monday at 12noon
Event 75: $1K Little One for One Drop NLHE – Day 1A of 5
Event 75: $1,111 Little One for OneDrop starts the first of three flights at 12pm today.
$1,000 gets you 20,000 chips, with a $111 donation to @OneDrop_All_In giving you an additional 20,000 chips.
Unlimited re-entry in each flight through Level 12 – Tuesday at 3:15pm pic.twitter.com/NyFEbYkvIs
— WSOP (@WSOP) July 6, 2019
Day 1A entries: 702
Prize pool: TBD
Players paid: TBD
Minimum payout: TBD
Winner payout: TBD
Day 1A players remaining: approximately 250
Day 1A chip leader: Mark Eddleman (USA) – 464,600 chips
Day 1B starting time: 12noon
Day 1C starting time: Monday at 11am
Day 2 starting time: Tuesday at 1pm
Notable Information
On Sunday, look for the final prize pool and other details of the WSOP Main Event to be announced.
At this stage, with 8,225 players, it is the second-largest Main Event in the game’s history. The all-time high was when 8,773 players entered the tournament in 2006, when Jamie Gold won it for $12 million. Last year’s Main Event brought in 7,874 players, and John Cynn took it down for $8.8 million. This year’s tournament already surpassed those numbers and will come the closest of any year to nearing that 2006 high point.
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