Records everywhere you look - that's the short answer to the recently concluded WSOP 2024, held at the Horseshoe and Paris in Las Vegas. Along with the live tournaments, the festival also took place in the online space.
As you probably already know, the record-breaking Main Event was first and foremost, bringing in 10,112 entries and along with it a record-breaking prizepool of over $94 million. However, there was one more record set during the Main Event and that was in Flight 1D, which became the biggest flight ever with 5,014 players.
Records outside the Main Event
WSOP 2024 produced 229,553 entries across 99 live events and more than 42,700 entries across 30 WSOP Online events, the most ever. A total of 34,717 seats were cashed during the recently concluded edition, surpassing last year's total of 32,282 and setting a new record.
The total prize pool paid out among players was also a record. More than $467 million was paid out in live and online tournaments combined. Of that, more than 437 million was paid out in live tournaments and another more than 30 million was paid out in the online edition. For example, the recently concluded UEFA Euro 2024 had a total prizepool for teams of €331 million, or approximately $359 million. Thus, the WSOP handily surpassed even such a huge event.
The $11.2 million prizepool in the $25,000 PLO HR became the largest PLO prizepool in live poker history. The $1,000 Mystery Bounty PLO became the largest player field in the PLO format with 4,280 entries. Millionaire Maker also set a record with 10,939 entries. It is the largest $1,500 buy-in field in live poker history.
As many as 84 live tournaments had a buy-in of at least $1 million, 54 live tournaments had a buy-in of more than $2 million, 19 live tournaments had a buy-in of more than $5 million, and 7 live tournaments had a buy-in of more than $10 million. 12 live tournaments brought in more than 5,000 entries. As for online tournaments, there were as many as 13 tournaments that surpassed a prizepool of more than $1 million.
How much did the WSOP itself earn?
The WSOP collected nearly $42 million in tournament buy-ins alone. $12,644,000 went to dealers and staff alone. WSOP Online collected more than $3 million in rake.
When we look at the WSOP in numbers over the entire 55-year period, we get some incredible numbers. More than $4.7 billion has been collected in more than 1,900 bracelet tournaments, and the WSOP has attracted more than 2.1 million players. The Main Events alone brought in a total of nearly 150,000 entries.
Let's take a look at the percentages
When we look at the 2024 WSOP in percentages and compare it to 2023 we get some more interesting numbers. The total prizepool grew by 8%, the total number of entries grew by 6%, the Main Event grew by 0.7%, and the money collected from the Feature grew by as much as 10 percent.
"It's special to see that passion for poker brings records every year. The list of records that were shattered this summer at the WSOP continues to show that a poker renaissance is upon us," said WSOP Vice President and Executive Director Ty Stewart.
Finally,two more online success stories
After the live version of the WSOP concluded in Las Vegas, there were still several tournaments taking place in the online space. The last WSOP Online tournament was the NLH Crazy 8's Encore with a buy-in of $888, an entry count of 931 and a prize pool of $744,800. A $108,815 prize awaited the winner here, plus of course a gold bracelet. The winner here was Michael Mizrachi, who outlasted his brother Robert to claim his sixth bracelet.
Austrian player Roland Rokita was also successful, playing one of the hybrid online/live tournaments. Specifically, it was the NLH High Roller 8-Max with a buy-in of $5,300, an entry count of 267 and a prizepool of $1,335,000. The final table of the tournament went live and the winner here was Roland Rokita, for whom this is the first WSOP bracelet. He also bagged $278,713.
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