The 2025 World Series of Poker Main Event is the third-biggest in history. 9,735 players have entered the most prestigious tournament on the poker calendar, creating a prize pool of $92,598,870.
After breaking records in 2023 (10,043) and 2024 (10,112), numbers have taken a small dip but are still extremely healthy and 964 players more than the fourth-biggest of all time, when Jamie Gold bested a field of 8,773 in 2006.
The tournament is still played as a freezeout, which means players can only enter once. That means almost 10,000 unique players paid the $10,000 entry fee to take a shot at a tournament that comes with life-changing money and an entry straight into poker’s history books.
The Main Event might not be as big as last year, but the first prize is the same. This year's winner will get $10,000,000, and the final nine are all guaranteed over $1 million, with 9th spot getting the cool $1,000,000 straight.
The $15,000 min-cash kicks in when the field is down to 1,461 players.
2025 WSOP Main Event payouts
- 1st: $10,000,000
- 2nd: $6,000,000
- 3rd: $4,000,000
- 4th: $3,000,000
- 5th: $2,400,000
- 6th: $1,900,000
- 7th: $1,500,000
- 8th: $1,250,000
- 9th: $1,000,000
Jonathan Tamayo won the largest Main Event of all time last year and the $10 million first prize when he bested a field of 10,112. At the time of writing, Tamayo is still in with a shot of defending his title — he's playing Day 2D and currently has a stack of 118,000, or just under 100 big blinds.
The 10 biggest WSOP Main Events in history
- 2024 — 10,112, won by Jonathan Tamayo ($10,000,000)
- 2023 — 10,043, won by Daniel Weinman ($12,100,000)
- 2025 — 9,735, won by tbc ($10,000,000)
- 2006 — 8,773, won by Jamie Gold ($12,000,000)
- 2022 — 8,663, won by Espen Jorstad ($10,000,000)
- 2019 — 8,569, won by Hossen Ensan ($10,000,000)
- 2018 — 7,874, won by John Cynn ($8,800,000)
- 2010 — 7,319, won by Jonathan Duhamel ($8,944,310)
- 2017 — 7,221, won by Scott Blumstein ($8,150,000)
- 2011 — 6,865, won by Pius Heinz ($8,715,638)
