2016 WSOP Sets a Number of Records with 107,833 Total Entries

The 2016 WSOP managed to break a few records, with more than 107,830 entries who got attracted. The record number of 107,833 entries in this year’s most prestigious poker tournament worldwide is more than 4% up the record-setting series in 2015. The latter gathered 103,512 entries. This makes 2016 WSOP the second time in its entire history when more than 100,000 were generated.

A number of new record were set over the 2016 WSOP, such as the most total cashers, largest number of total entries, largest non-hold’em live tour field size, etc. There were also some individual prizes awarded to several players, including Roland Israelashvili and Jason Mercier. The first one managed to set a new record for most cashes in a single summer World Series of Poker, while Mercier got the 2016 WSOP Player of the Year title.

Another record set was related to the money distributed in prizes, which equalled $221,211,336. When it comes to prize money, this was the third time after 2012 and 2014 event’s editions when a prize of $1,000,000 was offered for the winner in the Big One for One Drop tournament. In addition, the prize pool of all events totalled more than $100,000,000 for the 12th straight year, and it got more than $200,000,000 for the fourth time.

This year’s WSOP marked not only a record number of entries, but also a record number of places that were paid – a total of 15,767. In addition, 69 official gold bracelet events were scheduled, and the prize for the first place averagely amounted to $555,475.

When it comes to the Main Event of this year’s World Series of Poker, a massive number of entries was gathered there, too. The event gathered 6,737 participants, or in other words there were about 5% more people than the players who took part in the 2015 WSOP Main Event – 6,420. There was also another record set with the first place prize set at $8,000,000, not to mention the fact that the top 1,011 places in the competition were paid.

The average age per participant was 41.12 years old in this year’s WSOP, which is a bit higher than the one in 2015. The majority of fields at the 2016 WSOP were taken by male participants – a total of 94.87%, while female players accounted for the remaining 5.12%. These numbers were a bit changed in comparison to 2015, when there were 94.56% male players and 5.43% female players.

Expectedly, the biggest group of participants was consistent by players originating from the US, who accounted for a total of 77.92%, which equalled 84,027 entries. The second largest group of players was consistent of Canadian participants.

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Harry Evans

Harry Evans is a long-year journalist with a passion for poker. Apart from a good game of poker, he loves to write which is why he spent several years as an editor of a local news magazine.
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