Main Event Poker Championship
Posted: September 8th, 2007 | Author: Erick Mastack | Filed under: WSOP, no limit poker |In 2006, online poker hit a mark. The World Series of Poker had the largest payout in poker history. It was because of online sites like Full Tilt Poker and Poker Stars who sent an enormous amount of players to the main event.
Take a look at the past few years statistics on the main event:
- 2002 - 631 players - Varkonyi
- 2003 - 839 players - Moneymaker
- 2004 - 2576 players - Raymer
- 2005 - 5619 players - Hachem
- 2006 - 8773 players - Gold
- 2007 - 6358 players - Yang
The price money for 1st place at the main event poker championship has peaked in 2006. Take a look at these main event wins:
1971 $30,000
1991 $1,000,000
2003 $2,500,000
2006 $12,000,000
The increase in pay outs at the World Series is mainly due to the increase in online entries sent from several of the online poker rooms.
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