By 2022, though, Main Event attendance had resumed its upward climb, with 8,663 players takin part in the tourney captured by Espen Jorstad.Īt only 110 players shy of the earlier mark, and with an increased push in online qualifiers in 2023 via the WSOP’s online partner, GGPoker, the WSOP feels that this will be the year the old Main Event attendance standard is eclipsed. 2020 would likely have seen the 2006 attendance mark eclipsed, but the COVID-19 pandemic intervened. In 2019, Main Event attendance nearly reached the long-standing 2006 mark, when 8,569 players participated in the tourney won by Hossein Ensan. That year, which was the last WSOP before the UIGEA went into effect and choked off a flourishing pipeline of entries awarded through unregulated and non-partner offshore sites, 8,773 players entered the freezeout event.
The 54th edition of the WSOP brings a renewed focus gathered under its “Main Event Mania” theme, as WSOP execs forecast that 2023 is the year that the $10,000 No-Limit Hold’em World Championship - popularly known as the Main Event - finally eclipses the long-standing attendance mark set in 2006. WSOP schedule 2023 FAQs Ready for a packed WSOP 2023 schedule.New WSOP 2023 schedule events and an opening-weekend makeover.
