And so to the Rio All Suite Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas where, after a punishing sequence of four separate ‘Day Ones’, a few details are starting to emerge about the main event of the 2008 WSOP.
We know that our estimate of the number of players was woefully inadequate as there was an impressive total of 6844 bold hopefuls who all forked out $10k and created a prize pool of - get this - $64,333,600.
Scarily, for those followers of omens and other such irrational shite, the minimum payout of $21,230 will be awarded to the top 666.
However, the player who emerges as the prince(ss) of darkness (in four months’ time) will bank $9,119,517.
Here is something that will help put those numbers into perspective: so far, 53 events at the WSOP have been completed.
Of those, the most popular only attracted 3,929 entrants (the buy in was a mere $1,500) and the largest first place payout was the $1,989,120 won by Scotty Nguyen for his triumph in the World Championship – and that had a 50k buy-in.
Playing in the main event awards a chance to win a prize that is almost five times Scotty’s prize for 20% of the buy-in.
3,663 players have survived the opening days and there are few notable names to scare the greenhorns – Gus Hansen is sitting pretty with 102,900 and Victor Ramdin tops him with 124,600.
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