The 50th annual WSOP Main Event is on day six at the Rio hotel-casino in Las Vegas, and as of this morning there are only 106 players left after nearly 250 players were eliminated yesterday.
The WSOP Main Event is a $10,000 buy-in poker tournament, this year with 8,569 entries creating a $80,548,600 prize pool. The top 15 percent of the field divvy up the prize money with the winner’s share $10 million.
Play is expected to go until 2 a.m. today and the field is expected to end with the final three tables of players, each vying for the $10 million first place prize.
The final 9 players in the Main Event will all walk away as millionaires. The winner gets $10 million while the runner-up gets $6 million and 3rd place gets $4 million. The rest of the table will also walk away with at least $1 million. The Main Event is not the only tournament where players could win at least $1 million.
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