The 2025 World Series of Poker $10,000 buy-in no-limit hold’em main event attracted 9,735 entries by the time registration officially closed, making it the third-largest in the 56-year history of this tournament.
Only the 2024 main event (10,112) and 2023 main event (10,043) ended with larger fields. This year’s running was down roughly 3.7 percent compared with the record-setting field that turned out just a year earlier.
Prior to this three-year stretch, the 2006 main event and its 8,773-entry field held the record for nearly 17 years. The 2025 field is just shy of 11 percent larger than that event, which was (Jamie) gold standard for nearly two decades.
As a result of this latest impressive turnout at Paris and Horseshoe Las Vegas, the prize pool swelled to $90,535,500. The top 1,461 finishers will make the money in 2025, with a min-cash once again being worth $15,000.
This year’s winner will walk away with $10,000,000. They will also take home the 2025 WSOP championship bracelet, which was shown off in a social media post from PokerGO.
The crown jewel of poker. 👑
The 2025 @WSOP Main Event bracelet has arrived, and it’s a stunner.
Tune in to https://t.co/2RQh5ROjQG all the way through July 16 to see who takes it home.
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— PokerGO (@PokerGO) July 6, 2025
More Key Numbers From This Year’s World Championship
This will be the seventh time that a WSOP main event champion has earned an eight-figure payday, with this year’s winner joining reigning world champion Jonathan Tamayo ($10,000,000), 2023 champion Daniel Weinman ($12,100,000), 2006 champion Jamie Gold ($12,000,000), 2022 champion Espen Jorstad ($10,000,000), 2019 champion Hossein Ensan ($10,000,000), and 2014 champion Martin Jacobson ($10,000,000).
The top nine finishers are all set to earn at least seven-figure paydays, with the runner-up taking home $6,000,000 and the third-place finisher earning $4,000,000. The final five will all be multi-millionaires thanks to their deep runs in this tournament. In order to lock up a $100,000 payday or more, players will need to survive long enough to be one of the last 89 contenders.
Late registration was open through the start of level 8 on day 2D. A total of 775 entries were made during this final chance to get in on the action.
Here is how the entries for this record-setting turnout break down by flight (with a comparison to 2024 numbers):
- Day 1A – 923 (up 0.9 percent from 915 in 2024)
- Day 1B – 1,096 (up 31.9 percent from 831 in 2024)
- Day 1C – 1,678 (down 33.6 percent from 2,528 in 2024)
- Day 1D – 4,997 (down 0.3 percent from 5,014 in 2024)
- Day 2ABC – 266 (up 29.1 percent from 206 in 2024)
- Day 2D – 775 (up 25.4 percent from 618 in 2024)
- Total – 9,735 (down 3.7 percent from 10,112 in 2024)
Check out the ten largest WSOP main event fields in history:
| Year | Champion | Entries | Prize Pool | Top Payout |
| 2024 | Jonathan Tamayo | 10,112 | $94,041,600 | $10,000,000 |
| 2023 | Daniel Weinman | 10,043 | $93,399,900 | $12,100,000 |
| 2025 | TBD | 9,735 | $90,535,500 | $10,000,000 |
| 2006 | Jamie Gold | 8,773 | $82,512,162 | $12,000,000 |
| 2022 | Espen Jorstad | 8,663 | $80,782,475 | $10,000,000 |
| 2019 | Hossein Ensan | 8,569 | $80,548,600 | $10,000,000 |
| 2018 | John Cynn | 7,874 | $74,015,600 | $8,800,000 |
| 2010 | Jonathan Duhamel | 7,319 | $68,798,600 | $8,944,310 |
| 2017 | Scott Blumstein | 7,221 | $67,877,400 | $8,150,000 |
| 2011 | Pius Heinz | 6,865 | $64,531,000 | $8,715,638 |
Payouts for the 2025 WSOP main event:
| Place | Payout |
| 1 | $10,000,000 |
| 2 | $6,000,000 |
| 3 | $4,000,000 |
| 4 | $3,000,000 |
| 5 | $2,400,000 |
| 6 | $1,900,000 |
| 7 | $1,500,000 |
| 8 | $1,250,000 |
| 9 | $1,000,000 |
| 10-11 | $750,000 |
| 12-13 | $560,250 |
| 14-17 | $450,000 |
| 18-26 | $360,000 |
| 27-35 | $300,000 |
| 36-44 | $240,000 |
| 45-53 | $200,000 |
| 54-62 | $165,000 |
| 63-71 | $135,000 |
| 72-80 | $115,000 |
| 81-89 | $100,000 |
| 90-98 | $85,000 |
| 99-161 | $70,000 |
| 162-224 | $60,000 |
| 225-287 | $52,500 |
| 288-350 | $45,000 |
| 351-413 | $40,000 |
| 414-476 | $35,000 |
| 477-539 | $32,500 |
| 540-602 | $30,000 |
| 603-665 | $27,500 |
| 666-765 | $25,000 |
| 766-863 | $22,500 |
| 864-1,014 | $20,000 |
| 1,015-1,258 | $17,500 |
| 1,259-1,461 | $15,000 |
