Last year’s champion, Eliot Hudon, won $1.4 million when he took the title in the biggest-ever field ever for a non-World Series event costing $10,000 or more to enter. In a poll on X, formerly known as Twitter, we asked which of the three tournaments players would be attending if they only going to one – and 62.5% of those who replied chose the WPT World Championship – it’s currently the betting favorite. Whether it can do so will largely depend on whether enough players turn up for the initial Day 1a flights that it looks like the total will exceed the numbers needed to make the guarantee – a massive 4,082 players. That guarantee means that the event needs to achieve a record tournament buy-in for any major event outside the WSOP Main Event. This year, the tournament, which costs $10,400 to play – comprising a $9,800 entry, a $400 registration fee and a $200 staff fee – will have a record $40 million guarantee.
With 2,960 entrants, the guarantee of $15 million at the Wynn Las Vegas was smashed, with $29 million in the prizepool when late registration closed. Last year, the World Poker Tour launched the WPT World Championship. With the WPT World Championship, WSOP Paradise Main Event and EPT Prague Main Event all clashing on the calendar, which of poker’s biggest three brands will win the attendance war before the presents are handed out? WPT World Championship Hoping to Break Records
