2007 World Series Of Poker Main Event Begins

The 2007 WSOP Main Event began this past Friday. Initially a decision was made to make it a 3 day opening round of 3000 players apiece after the Rio's poker playing area was increased from last year's max capacity of 2000 or so. The powers that be decided on making it a 4 day opening round of 3000 believing there may be a large enough turnout to justify it. Boy were they wrong...

Day 1A only saw 1,287 players and Day 1B saw 1,545 players, far from the 3,000 cap.

They are now estimating around 6,000 entrants total for this year which is the first drop from one year to the next (there were 8,872 last year) in a WSOP main event field in as far back as I can remember. This is almost certainly due to the online gambling legislation that was passed within the last year.

Good luck to all those that made it out there to play this year and hopefully you will see me out there next year.

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