The WSOP 2011 is on course to be a record breaking series despite the events of Black Friday
Records are being broken at the WSOP 2011 even after the potentially damaging events of Black Friday.
With 30 events having taken place, overall participation has increased by 11.7%. The WSOP 2011 has attracted 33,173 entrants which has increased the prize pool by 8.6 percent in comparison with that of 2010.
Other tournament records that have been broken are:
-Biggest Heads-Up tournament prize pool in history ($3,040,000 in Event 2).
-Largest live Six-Handed tournament in history (1,920 entries in Event 10).
-Largest live $1,500 buy-in No Limit Hold’em tournament in history with single day start (3, 157 entries in Event 18).
-Largest live Pot-Limit Omaha tournament in history
(1,071 entries in Event 22).
-Largest live $1,000 No-Limit tournament in history with single day start
(3,752 entries in Event 30).
These new WSOP records for participation and prizes are also records for poker tournaments globally. The WSOP Executive Director Ty Stewart said, “It has been a record-setting summer thus far in 2011 and we are confident it will continue through the duration of the tournament.”
