WSOP 2026 Main Event Draws 9,208 Entries to Create Fourth-Largest Field Ever

By Mrinal Gujare

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2026 WSOP Main Event: 9,208 players, $85.6M prize pool, 4th largest ever.
Defending champ Michael Mizrachi bags big stack; Phil Ivey joins as late entry.
Top players advance to Day 3; new champion to be crowned August 5.

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The 2026 WSOP Main Event officially closed registration with 9,208 players, creating an $85,625,100 prize pool as the fourth-largest field ever. Defending champion Michael Mizrachi bagged a big stack, while Phil Ivey was among the final late entries.

The official registration numbers for the 2026 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event are finalized, locking in another massive turnout for poker’s most prestigious annual tournament.

When registration officially closed at approximately 3:45 p.m. PT on Monday, the official tournament board settled at 9,208 players.

This immense field generated a total prize pool of $85,625,100, securing its place as the fourth-largest Main Event field in the 57-year history of the tournament.

The tournament, which historically attracted between 6,500 and 8,000 players from 2006 to 2022, has now established a modern trend of consistently pulling in over 9,000 entrants per year.

Last year, the 2025 field drew 9,735 entries, marking the third-largest attendance of all time and the first year since 2022 that the turnout stayed under the 10,000-player threshold.

The absolute record remains at 10,112 entrants from the 2024 tournament, the historic year that saw Jonathan Tamayo crowned as the world champion. While the 2026 field did not surpass that all-time high, it safely cements itself as one of the largest poker fields ever assembled.

The current atmosphere of the 2026 Main Event shares notable similarities with the 2025 edition, characterized by a staggering field size and a highly productive run by defending champion Michael Mizrachi.

Mizrachi built up a significant stack on Day 2abc, bagging over 200,000 chips by the end of Monday’s session. He will advance to the next stage of the tournament on Wednesday holding an above-average chip stack.

As registration reached its final moments, Poker Hall of Famer and 11-time WSOP bracelet winner Phil Ivey emerged as one of the final participants to enter the field.

Ivey took his seat inside Paris Las Vegas immediately following the second break of the day, right as the registration window closed, starting his campaign with the standard 60,000-chip starting stack.

The Day 2d session featured a dense concentration of high-profile players navigating the massive field. Prominent poker stars Kathy Liebert, Alex Foxen, and Liv Boeree were all reported to be working with substantial chip stacks.

Conversely, six-time bracelet winner Daniel Negreanu found himself battling through the session with a short stack, though he remained alive in the tournament.

All players from both Day 2 sessions who successfully bag chips will combine and return to the tables on Wednesday at 11 a.m. PT to begin Day 3.

The tournament will continue its daily schedule in Las Vegas, with live reporting coverage continuing until a new world champion is officially crowned on August 5.

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