2011 WSOP Setting Records


Tuesday June 21,2011 : Almost six thousand players were at the tables last Friday – and we're not at the Main Event yet!
 
Statistics released by the 2011 World Series of Poker show that this will probably be a bumper year for the Series despite the depredations of US enforcement authorities against online poker sites.
 
Officials particularly called attention to last Friday, when 5,946 players took to the felt in various events, and to several events where previous registrations have been overtaken.
 
Look at some of the numbers:
 
• Event 28 – $1,500 no-limit hold 'em – 2,500 entries
• Event 29 – $2,500 10-game – 431 entries
• Event 30 – $1,000 Seniors – 3,752 entries, making it the largest single-day entry tournament in history.
• Event 31 – $3,000 pot-limit Omaha – 685 entries
• Event 32 – $1,500 no-limit hold 'em – 2,828 entries
• Event 33 – $10,000 seven-card stud high-low split eight-or-better – 168 entries
• Event 34 – $1,000 no-limit hold 'em – 3,144 entries
 
That's a total of 13,508 entries in just a few days, verifying the official claim that through the first 30 events of 2011, 11 participation records had been broken.
 
In total, WSOP participation is up 11.7 percent with 33,173 entries, generating an 8.6 percent rise in the total prize pool, and plenty of big money events still in the pipeline.
 
Event 2 had the biggest heads-up tournament prize pool at $3,040,000, whilst event 10 turned out to be the largest six-handed tournament in poker history with 1,920 entries
 
Event 16 had the biggest deuce-to-seven tournament prize pool at $1,184,400, and in event 30, the senior's competition recorded the biggest entry field in WSOP history at 3,752.
 
Thus far, this year's Series has produced the largest Omaha high-low split, six-handed, Lowball, pot-limit Omaha, mixed game and Seniors events in poker history, and broke the record for the largest tournaments in history with a single day start three times.
 
Ty Stewart, the WSOP executive director, summed it up this week, saying: "It has been a record-setting summer thus far in 2011 and we are confident it will continue through the duration of the tournament."