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This August World Poker Tour It was announced that 2023 WPT World Championships at Wynn Las Vegas It will have a $40 million guarantee, the largest in tournament poker history. This ambitious goal has already inspired a huge turnout. A total of 3,835 entries have been made across the four trips starting with a $10,400 No Limit Hold’em tournament before registration closes on Friday, December 15. This set a new record for the largest square in WPT date of the main round, resulting in the cancellation of 2,960 entries made in the inaugural run of the event last year, an increase of 29.6 percent year-on-year.
The initial distribution of flights for this year was as follows:
Day 1A: 609 entries
Day 1B: 730 entries
Day 1 C: 973 entries
Day 1: 1,523 entries
While this year’s field size marked a new high for the tour, it was not enough to meet the unprecedented $40 million guarantee. Each entry added $9,800 to the prize pool, resulting in $37,583,000 for a prize pool of $2,417,000.
$40 million will be paid out among the top 480 contestants, with a minimum cash prize of $18,700 while the eventual champion will take home $5,678,000. The winner will also receive a seat in next year’s running of the event.
The top 48 finishers will receive at least six-figure cash, while the six players who make it to the televised final table will all receive seven-figure points. A full list of payments can be found at the bottom of this article.
This is not the first time an eight-figure guarantee has been lost in recent years. 2018 Caribbean poker party The main event missed its $10 million guarantee by more than $900,000, while the 2014 event Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open Championship The main event had a $2.5 million overlay after achieving the same $10 million guarantee in its opening the previous year.
the WPT It faced a lot of competition from other Grand Tours, with main events to open World Series of Poker Commission And the European Poker Tour in Prague Stop interfering with WPT World Championship. the WSOP heaven The $5,300 main event had its own $15 million guarantee, which was technically exceeded (with a 3 percent staff fee counted towards meeting the guarantee) after 3,010 entries were drawn. In the Czech Republic, this year saw a record turnout of 1,285 entries EPT Prague The main event is the largest in the history of the €5,300 buy-in tournament.
All told, these three overlapping main events will pay out more than $61 million in total prize money between them.
2023 WPT Wynn Las Vegas Payouts World Championship:
First: $5,678,000
Second: $3,772,200
Third: $2,798,700
Fourth: $2,095,300
Fifth: $1,583,100
Sixth: $1,207,000
Seventh: $928,900
Eighth: $721,600
9th to 10th: $566,900
Eleventh through twelfth: $456,500
From the thirteenth to the fourteenth: $363,300
From the 15th to the 16th: $291,700
17th to 20th: $236,300
21st-24th: $193,100
From 25 to 32: $159,200
Ages 33 to 40: $132,500
From the forty-first to the forty-eighth: $111,300
Ages 49 to 56: $94,400
57th to 64th: $80,700
65th to 72nd place: $69,700
From 73rd to 80th: $60,800
Ages 81 to 88: $53,500
89 to 104: $47,100
From 105th to 120th: $41,900
121 to 136: $37,600
From 137th to 152nd: $34,100
From 153rd to 168th: $31,300
From 169th to 184th: $28,900
185 to 208: $27,000
From 209th to 232nd: $25,500
From 233rd to 264th: $24,400
From 265th to 296th: $23,200
From 297th to 328th: $22,200
From 329th to 360th: $21,200
From 361 to 408: $20,200
From 409 to 444: $19,300
445 to 480: $18,700
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