POKER ROOM REVIEW NEWSWIRE
WSOP Attendance Figures Released
7/7/2008 1:11:43 PM
The top prize at the main event of the World Series of Poker (WSOP) will be more than $9 million this year, and about 660 players will get some piece of a $64 million prize pool, tournament officials said Sunday.
About 2,500 players entered the no-limit Texas Hold 'em tournament Sunday, the last day players were able to register. The field of more than 6,800 entrants was about 500 more than last year but still down from 2006, when a record 8,773 players entered and Jamie Gold won $12 million.
The roughly $9 million top prize would be the second largest in the main event's history. Last year, California psychologist Jerry Yang emerged from a field of 6,358 players to win a top prize of $8.25 million.