This summer we happily wrote daily summaries of the WSOP, while building the tools to compute stats and build data tables for the blog. It took some time but we’ve finally been able to assemble all the accumulated stats in a single infographic summarizing the festival that we hope you’ll enjoy.
With the start of the biggest buy-in tournament in poker history, the £1,050,000 Triton Million, we’ve been interested in compiling a few stats from the previous $1M+ hyper high rollers.
Four editions of The Big One for One Drop have been held since 2012, one every two years. The WSOP have hosted it three times, while the fourth was held in Monte-Carlo in 2016.
| Year | Prizepool | Entries |
| 2012 | $42,666,672 | 48 |
| 2014 | $37,333,338 | 42 |
| 2016 | $27,437,564 | 28 |
| 2018 | $24,840,000 | 27 |
Unfortunately those events have seen a steady decline in participation, but the Triton Million will already break this record as 54 participants have already registered to play the tournament. £50,000 should be held for charity, making a prizepool of $65M, reaching the 6th biggest tournament prizepool ever!
Here are the top 10 earners in all four editions of the Big One, with Rick Salomon – also playing today – being the only player making more than one cash with a sick 75% cashing to entry ratio.
| Name | Places (Year) | Total Earnings |
| 🇺🇸 Antonio Esfandiari | 1st (2012) | $18,346,673 |
| 🇺🇸 Dan Colman | 1st (2014) | $15,306,668 |
| 🇨🇳 Elton Tsang | 1st (2016) | $12,333,333 |
| 🇬🇧 Sam Trickett | 2nd (2012) | $10,112,001 |
| 🇺🇸 Justin Bonomo | 1st (2018) | $10,000,000 |
| 🇺🇸 Rick Salomon | 3rd, 4th, 4th * | $8,970,000 |
| 🇨🇦 Daniel Negreanu | 2nd (2014) | $8,288,001 |
| 🇷🇺 Anatoly Gurtovoy | 2nd (2016) | $6,024,836 |
| 🇩🇪 Fedor Holz | 2nd (2018) | $6,000,000 |
| 🇩🇪 Christoph Vogelsang | 3rd (2014) | $4,480,001 |
The event should also distribute the biggest prize ever to its winner, an astounding $23M! Eleven players will be payed, making a rough 20% of players in the money.
Play has just started and you can follow the event on the twitch stream right now!
After 1.5 months of tournaments, the 50th WSOP are now officially finished with Hossein Ensan as the last crowned world champion in the Main Event.
| # | Buy-in | Event | Player | Prize |
| 73 | $10,000 | No-Limit Hold’em MAIN EVENT – World Championship | 🇩🇪 Hossein Ensan | $10,000,000 |
| 86 | $10,000 | No-Limit Hold’em 6-Handed | 🇺🇸 Anuj Agarwal | $630,747 |
| 87 | $3,000 | HORSE | 🇷🇺 Denis Strebkov | $606,562 |
| 89 | $5,000 | No-Limit Hold’em | 🇬🇧 Carl Shaw | $606,562 |
Event #73: $10,000 No-Limit Hold’em MAIN EVENT
It took him about nine hours and things got a little rocky at times, but Ensan closed the deal. He eliminated both Alex Livingston and then Dario Sammartino across a little under 200 hands of play, securing the historic bracelet for the 50th running of the WSOP, as well as $10 million. Ensan called the moment, the culmination of getting through a field of 8,569, “unbelievable”. “It is the best feeling I have in all my life”, Ensan said and we can all imagine why.
Event #86: $10,000 No-Limit Hold’em 6-Handed Championship
Anuj Agarwal has taken down one of the last WSOP gold bracelets of the summer by beating 271 other players. Agarwal took home $630,747 for his biggest ever career cash. He more than doubled his total amount of recorded live cashes by beating Australia’s Kahle Burns heads up.
Event #87: $3,000 H.O.R.S.E.
Denis Strebkov took down Event #87 beating a field of 301 entries. Strebkov claimed the $206,173 first prize and his first career bracelet.
Event #89: $5,000 No-Limit Hold’em
A champion has been crowned in the final event of the 50th Annual World Series of Poker! Britain’s Carl Shaw defeated Tony Dunst heads-up for $606,562 and his first ever gold WSOP bracelet. This event attracted 608 players in total who created a prize pool of $2,827,200 with 92 players getting paid.
On the side, Phil Hellmuth and Shaun Deeb multiplied their good results yesterday but neither of them won the title of “2019 WSOP player of the Year”. Indeed, Robert Campbell finished in front of Deeb (2nd) and Negreanu (3rd) while Hellmuth finished 44th. In October, the WSOP Europe will close the deal to know who finishes the player of year.
| Player | Place | Earnings | # | Event |
| 🇮🇹 Dario Sammartino | 2nd | $6,000,000 | 73 | $10,000 No-Limit Hold’em MAIN EVENT – World Championship |
| 🇺🇸 Tony Dunst | 2nd | $374,886 | 89 | $5,000 No-Limit Hold’em |
| 🇺🇸 Brian Hastings | 4th | $182,575 | 87 | $3,000 HORSE |
| 🇺🇸 Phil Hellmuth | 6th | $94,899 | 89 | $5,000 No-Limit Hold’em |
| 🇬🇧 Benjamin Heath | 6th | $85,915 | 86 | $10,000 No-Limit Hold’em 6-Handed |
| 🇺🇸 Paul Volpe | 8th | $52,760 | 87 | $3,000 HORSE |
| 🇺🇸 Jonathan Little | 13th | $24,941 | 89 | $5,000 No-Limit Hold’em |
| 🇺🇸 Shaun Deeb | 17th | $28,618 | 86 | $10,000 No-Limit Hold’em 6-Handed |
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The 50th WSOP are almost finished but they are still 3 players remaining in the Main Event to win the most prestigious bracelet of the series as well as $10,000,000!
| # | Buy-in | Event | Player | Prize |
| 84 | $1,500 | The Closer – No-Limit Hold’em | 🇮🇳 Abhinav Iyer | $565,346 |
| 85 | $3,000 | Pot-Limit Omaha 6-Handed | 🇺🇸 Alan Sternberg | $448,392 |
Event #84: $1,500 No-Limit Hold’em The Closer
After two days of play, Abhinav Iyer won one of the last event of these WSOP for $565,346. With unlimited re-entries across all three starting flights, 2,800 entries were registered in total, generating a tasty $3,780,000 prizepool at the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino. Iyer brings home the fourth bracelet of the series for his home country, India.
Event #85: $3,000 Pot-Limit Omaha 6-Handed
Alan Sternberg reigned victorious in this PLO tournament to capture his first-ever bracelet along with $448,392 in prize money. Sternberg entered the final table fourth in chips “Coming into today, my goal was to at least make top four and then I got hit with the deck of cards. I made the best hand a lot so that makes it pretty easy.” He defeated Evangelos Kokkalis for the final heads-up.
Event #73: $10,000 No-Limit Hold’em Main Event
The 2019 World Series of Poker $10,000 Main Event is just one day away from crowning a champion as the final trio remains out of a field of 8,569 entries with a WSOP Main Event bracelet for the winner and the payday of $10,000,000 that comes along with it.
Hossein Ensan finished Day 7 and 8 at the top of the leaderboard and made it three in a row by establishing a commanding lead at the end of Day 9. Ensan increased his stack by more than 50% on the day and bagged up 326,800,000.
That’s nearly two times as many chips as Alex Livingston (120,400,000) and Dario Sammartino (67,600,000) have combined at their disposal.
Event #86: $10,000 No-Limit Hold’em 6-Handed Championship
Gal Yifrach had a day to remember after he went from start-of-day short stack to final six chip leader in just over four hours in Event #86. When the final 16 returned to action, Yifrach had just 319,000, but by the end of the play, the American bagged a massive 5,385,000 for the clear lead at the top.
Yifrach will be favorite to win this tournament but he will be challenged by Anuj Agarwal (4,350,000), Dong Chen (2,540,000), Kahle Burns(1,855,000), Leonard Maue (1,495,000) and Ben Heath (710,000).
Famous names have also cashed in Event #84 and #85 as Shaun Deeb, Joao Vieira and Robert Mizrachi who are all doing great in these WSOP.
| Player | Place | Earnings | # | Event |
| 🇺🇸 Joseph Cheong | 6th | $64,722 | 85 | $3,000 Pot-Limit Omaha 6-Handed |
| 🇺🇸 Shaun Deeb | 7th | $80,766 | 84 | $1,500 The Closer – No-Limit Hold’em |
| 🇵🇹 Joao Vieira | 7th | $47,043 | 85 | $3,000 Pot-Limit Omaha 6-Handed |
| 🇺🇸 JC Tran | 10th | $37,215 | 84 | $1,500 The Closer – No-Limit Hold’em |
| 🇺🇸 Robert Mizrachi | 57th | $5,686 | 85 | $3,000 Pot-Limit Omaha 6-Handed |
Are you wondering who are the most consistent players of these 50th WSOP? Here are the best cash averages for 5+ cashes:
| Name | Total Earnings | Cashes |
| 🇺🇸 Nick Schulman | $289,335 | 6 |
| 🇹🇼 James Chen | $250,553 | 5 |
| 🇺🇸 Dash Dudley | $183,414 | 6 |
| 🇺🇸 John Gorsuch | $169,653 | 8 |
| 🇨🇦 Daniel Negreanu | $144,579 | 14 |
Tonight will crown the winner of the Main Event! Will Hossein Ensan be able to do it with his huge chiplead? See you tomorrow for the last recap of the season to get to know who’s gonna make it to the top and leave Vegas with $10,000,000!
source: wsop.com
Sunday provided plenty of action as the main event final table got underway and two more WSOP gold bracelets found new owners, one from online play and one from live:
| # | Buy-in | Event | Player | Prize |
| 82 | $1,500 | No Limit Hold’em Double Stack | 🇺🇸 Tom Koral | $530,164 |
| 88 | $500 | WSOP.com ONLINE No-Limit Hold’em Summer Saver | 🇺🇸 Taylor “Galactar” Paur | $149,240 |
Claiming the second bracelet of his career yesterday was Tom Koral who outlasted a field of 2,589 entries and earned the top prize of $530,164. Koral is primarily a mixed game player, but didn’t seem to hinder him on his way to victory in the most popular format of the game. Barry Shulman also final tabled this event seeking his third bracelet but instead found third place coming up just short.
Sunday also saw the ninth and final online event conclude with Taylor “Galactar” Paur claiming victory and his second bracelet over 1,325 entries for $149,240.52. This year was the most online events the World Series had ever hosted and they were all met with impressive numbers as anyone who was physically in Nevada or New Jersey was able to log in and play for a bracelet.
The three opening flights of the repeat popular event attracted 2,337 entrants with about half of those coming from yesterday’s Day 1c field. Today was originally scheduled to be the final day, however, like several other tournaments this Summer, it may very well be extended an additional day as the large field still has 196 players returning. Notables Shaun Deeb, Ari Engel and Jeff Gross all bring in healthy stacks today but it is Tam Nguyen who leads them all in the hunt for the bracelet and the nearly half a million prize of $490,359.
This event will award one of the final bracelets of the Summer today with just six players remaining out of the original field of 835 entrants. Millard Hale is in first place for chip counts but John Richards is also close on his heels with Joseph Cheong coming into the day as the short stack. In addition to their very first WSOP bracelet, the remaining contestants are battling for the $448,392 up top.
This tournament saw 24 players join in on the action before the start of yesterday’s Day 2 to round out the field of 272 entries in the final $10,000 buy-in event of the World Series. Only 16 players survived to find a bag yesterday and return today with Anuj Agarwal leading the way and aiming for the whopping $630,747 first place prize. Two previous bracelet winners also remain in the hunt for their next one with Ben Heath securing a healthy stack and Gal Yifrach bagging the shortest stack of the remaining players. The tournament is scheduled to play down to the final six today however with only 16 remaining it’s possible tournament staff could let it play out to the end.
The final mixed-game event of the World Series kicked off yesterday drawing 301 entrants to create a prize pool of over $800,000 with first place taking home $206,173. Harold Klein enters the day as the chip leader but defending champion Brian Hastings also bagged a decent stack and is in contention for the rare back-to-back repeat with 127 players returning. Hastings has found plenty of success at the World Series in his career, already in possession of four gold bracelets.
The main kicked off the first day of the final table yesterday with plenty of chips flying. The original plan was to play down to six from the nine who began the day, however, after only 56 hands play was stopped with just five remaining in contention for the prestigious bracelet and $10,000,000 prize that awaits the eventual champion. Hossein Ensan entered the day as the massive chip leader and was able to hold onto that position but Garry Gates also chipped up yesterday and the two big stacks hold around 75 percent of the chips in play between them. Yesterday saw Milos Skrbic take ninth for $1,000,000, Timothy Su eighth for $1,250,000, Nick Marchington seventh for $1,525,000, and then finally Zhen Cai for $1,850,000.
As we enter the final two days of the 2019 World Series of Poker, stay tuned here as for updates as we draw closer to crowning the final bracelet winners and the next Main Event champion!
