The 2019 WSOP Main Event Winner Will Receive $10,000,000!

The final numbers 2019 World Series of Poker Main Event have been announced! A whopping 8,569 players have entered the world’s biggest tournament, the final 1,286 players will get paid and the winner takes home a staggering $10,000,000!

Across three starting days, the entries were as follows.

Day	Entrants
Day 1a	1,334
Day 1b	1,914
Day 1c	4,877
Day 2a/b	100
Day 2c	344

Making the money in the 2019 WSOP Main Event will result in a $15,000 payday with incremental increase as the field whittles down as the days go on. The full payouts are as follows.

Place	Payout
1st	$10,000,000
2nd	$6,000,000
3rd	$4,000,000
4th	$3,000,000
5th	$2,200,000
6th	$1,825,000
7th	$1,525,000
8th	$1,275,000
9th	$1,000,000
10th-11th	$800,000
12th-13th	$600,000
14th-15th	$500,000
16th-18th	$400,000
19th-27th	$324,650
Other notable jumps
28th-36th	$261,430
64th-72nd	$117,710
73rd-81st	$98,120
82nd-90th	$50,855
478th-540th	$27,390
667th-765th	$20,200
1063rd-1286th	$15,000

After its epic boom when Chris Moneymaker won the event in 2003, the Main Event grew rapidly until 2006. The UIGEA brought along a steep decline in 2006 after which the event bounced around until its low point in 2013. Since then, with the exception of 2015, there’s been growing every year to bring us closer than ever before to breaking Jamie Gold’s record year.

WSOP MAIN EVENT GROWTH
Year	Main Event Entries	Year over Year
2003	839
2004	2,576	207.03%
2005	5,619	118.13%
2006	8,773	56.13%
2007	6,358	-27.53%
2008	6,844	7.64%
2009	6,494	-5.11%
2010	7,319	12.70%
2011	6,865	-6.20%
2012	6,598	-3.89%
2013	6,352	-3.73%
2014	6,683	5.21%
2015	6,420	-3.94%
2016	6,737	4.94%
2017	7,221	7.18%
2018	7,874	9.04%
2019	8,569	8.83%

Watch the WSOP Main Event on ESPN and PokerGO.