The 2023 World Series of Poker is officially underway, and what better opportunity than the start of seven straight weeks of wall-to-wall poker to dig into some of the gaudy numbers attached to such a momentous amount of tournaments, bracelets, and money that will be won between now and mid-July.
Without further ado, let’s Run the Numbers on the 2023 WSOP.
115: The total number of WSOP bracelet events for players who will be in Las Vegas this summer – 95 live, and 20 online events that will share a player pool with New Jersey. Only 5 of the live events – Casino Employees, Tournament of Champions, Ladies Championship, Seniors Event, and Super Seniors Event – are not open events.
833 1/3: The buy-in for the $250,000 Super High Roller event is 833 1/3 times the size of the smallest buy-in on the schedule at the 2023 WSOP, the $300 Gladiators event.
10: Number of 2023 WSOP events with a buy-in of at least $25,000, a record for any year at the WSOP.
28,371: The largest field in WSOP history, which belongs to the 2019 ‘Big 50’ $500 No Limit Hold’em event. Generating a prize pool of $13,509,435, Femi Fashakin won $1,147,449 for his effort – 2,295 times the $500 buy-in.
The $300 Gladiators event at the 2023 WSOP, the smallest ever buy-in price point for a live WSOP bracelet event, has guaranteed $3 million (minimum 10,000 entries, before considering rake), but with four starting flights and multiple re-entries allowed, it has the best chance of any event on the schedule this summer to push towards that record number.
97: Number of times someone has won multiple WSOP bracelets in a single year. 9 players have won multiple bracelets in a year twice, with only two of those players winning multiple bracelets in back-to-back years – Gary “Bones” Berland (1978 & 1979) and Layne Flack (2002 & 2003). 6 players have won three WSOP bracelets in a single year – Puggy Pearson (1973), Phil Hellmuth (1993), Ted Forrest (1993), Phil Ivey (2002), Jeff Lisandro (2009) and George Danzer (2014).
$18,346,673: The largest single prize ever awarded at the WSOP, won by Antonio Esfandiari at the inaugural $1 million Big One for One Drop in 2012.
3,506: Number of days between Daniel Negreanu’s last WSOP bracelet win, in the 2013 WSOP Europe €25,600 High Roller, to Day 1 of the 2023 WSOP.
$14,219,969 – The total amount that Negreanu has cashed for in live WSOP events in that window of time. He’s had two seven-figure results, including $8,288,001 for second in the 2014 $1 million Big One for One Drop. He has made 20 Final Tables, with 5 seconds, 5 thirds, 2 fourths, and 83 total cashes.
Since Negreanu’s last WSOP bracelet win:
- Phil Hellmuth has won 3 times, extending his all-time lead to 16. That’s 6 more than any other player on the list.
- 2 players have won 5 WSOP bracelets.
- Brian Hastings has won 5 of his 6 career bracelets
- Shaun Deeb has won all 5 of his career bracelets.
- 13 players have won at least 4 WSOP bracelets in the interim.
- John Hennigan has won 4 of his 6 career WSOP bracelets.
- Jeremy Ausmus won 4 of his 5 career WSOP bracelets; Ausmus won his first 7 days before Negreanu won in October 2013.
- Adam Friedman won 4 of his 5 career WSOP bracelets.
- Adrian Mateos, who won the 2013 WSOPE Main Event for his first career WSOP bracelet the day after Negreanu’s sixth, now has 4 career bracelets.
- Michael Addamo, George Danzer, Asi Moshe, David Peters, Brad Ruben, Ben Yu and Anthony Zinno each have 4 bracelet wins since Negreanu last won.
8,774: The number of players the 2023 WSOP Main Event will need to beat the all-time record. The 2006 WSOP Main Event drew 8,773 players, with Jamie Gold winning the tournament and the record $12 million payout. The overall prize pool for that event was $82,512,162. The 2022 WSOP Main Event field got the closest to matching it, with 8,663 players and a prize pool of $80,782,475.
If the WSOP Main Event field hits 8,774 (or more) in 2023, the WSOP will be giving one of the players in the field a seat in the next 30 WSOP main events in a random draw.
$10 million: The amount paid to the three players who are tied for the second-largest WSOP Main Event prize in history: 2014 champion Martin Jacobson, 2019 champ Hossein Ensan and 2022 winner Espen Jorstad.