The Main Event is the $10,000 buy-in crown jewel of the series. In 2023, it set a very high bar, setting attendance, prize pool, and first-place prize records. Will the WSOP try to beat this record again?

Apparently so. In a press release announcing the record in July 2023, WSOP Senior Vice President and Executive Director Ty Stewart is quoted as saying that organizers are “hoping this record is short lived and we’ll be ready for another monster turnout next summer.”

To achieve that, WSOP will have to pull out all the stops, working with their promotional partners to send more than a thousand qualifiers to the Main Event through promotions, satellites and giveaways.

As in previous editions, we can expect four starting flights to merge into two separate Day 2s before all players combine for Days 3 to 7. Players play down to a final table that will determine the winne