The numbers came in yesterday for the 2019 WSOP Main Event, and they were worth the wait. Participation increased, and the tournament officially became the second-largest in the history of the Main Event, taking a back seat only to 2006.
Let’s get to the action of the day first and examine the Main Event numbers below that.
On Sunday, July 7, this is what happened at the 50th Annual World Series of Poker in Las Vegas.
The WSOP staff revealed the numbers for the Main Event, along with some demographics.
https://twitter.com/WSOP/status/1147969315179655168
First, however, let’s look at the 2019 Main Event participation in comparison to other years:
Some of the interesting statistics from the WSOP were as follows:
--Final 1,286 players to be paid, most in event’s history (1,182 last year)--Value of chips in play = 514.14 million (393.7 million last year)--Total of 222,794 chips in play (267,716 last year)--Players hailed form 87 countries (88 last year)--Average player age = 41.46 (41.23 last year)--Male participants = 8,219 (up 8.5% from 7,573 last year)--Female participants = 350 (up 16% from 301 last year)--Female participation = 4.08% (up from 3.82% last year)
It is very notable that female participation rose 16% this year, especially as compared to male participation up only 8.5% from last year. However, the final numbers still only show that women comprised slightly more than 4% of the entire Main Event field this year.
Most tournament operators don’t track the number of women in their event fields, but it is widely believed that women typically comprise 3% to 5% of most tournaments. The WSOP number falls directly in that range. Despite a bit of year-on-year improvement, the percentage of women in the WSOP Main Event is still very low.
Notably, the percentage of female players among those claiming United States nationality is 4.26%, while non-US players show only 3.66% female.
Regarding other demographics, the vast majority of players hailed from the US, as usual, but the top 10 countries representing this year were as follows:
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