2026 World Series of Poker May 26th - July 15th
Does anyone know the data on usual late Day 2 entrants But yes doesn't seem like it will make it.
Are only mixed games generally increasing
Last year the combined day 2 late reg was 1050. Late reg was really popular this year in basically every tourney that ran. I'm guessing they surpass the late reg number from last year but could be wrong. I think the total entries will be in the low 9k range. 9400?
It'll probably come in just under 10K. You're roughly 9,000 right now. Maybe 1 to 200 day 2 reg, and maybe about the same for late reg 1d. This is a tournament I feel that people play day 1 as opposed to Max late reging due to soft field and deep stacks.
Max late regging is the best decision time/money wise so I think a lot of tourney pros will want to late register. People that register early want to win the main event or cross off a bucket list item while those that register later are tourney pros that care more about money versus time. I also suspect that players more familiar with cash game poker compared to tournaments will want to register earlier as that will be their biggest edge in the tourney.
A larger percentage of the people already registered for Day 2D have a history of cashing in events according to the WSOP live app.
Registering into day 2 with 60bb seems like a no-brainer. You make the money on day 3. Skipping day 1 eliminates so many more opportunities for you to go broke
Max late regging is the best decision time/money wise so I think a lot of tourney pros will want to late register. People that register early want to win the main event or cross off a bucket list item while those that register later are tourney pros that care more about money versus time. I also suspect that players more familiar with cash game poker compared to tournaments wil
Is it though considering how soft it is on Day 1 as well as the fact it's a slow structured 10k? Seems like your hourly should be pretty hard early on if you're good at tournaments.
Watching the Main Event day 1C highlights and it’s just shocking that people claim they would rather watch weekend warriors over high rollers. Maybe it’s a mindset thing. When I play (I’m a rec), I’m trying to make the correct decisions in every hand I play. I get way more out of watching the HR streams than the Monster Stack or Millionaire Maker 10 times out of 10.
Yup about 8k now, I suck, I double counted one of the starting days.
Mac late reging could go either way about being better or not, there's definitely been a large number of named pros who played a day one. I imagine though that a lot of people who usually max late reg will do so for the main, such as negreanu. I haven't seen that he has played yet
Yup about 8k now, I suck, I double counted one of the starting days.
Mac late reging could go either way about being better or not, there's definitely been a large number of named pros who played a day one. I imagine though that a lot of people who usually max late reg will do so for the main, such as negreanu. I haven't seen that he has played yet
Dnegs is playing today hes on one of the feature tables.
It'll probably come in just under 10K. You're roughly 9, 000 right now. Maybe 1 to 200 day 2 reg, and maybe about the same for late reg 1d. This is a tournament I feel that people play day 1 as opposed to Max late reging due to soft field and deep stacks.
Max late regging is the best decision time/money wise so I think a lot of tourney pros will want to late register. People
In a once a year event with such a large buyin with a large field weak field your expectation your expectation of you are a better player should go up getting there on time or at least maybe only miss one two hour level. I guess it might be able to be argued that lesser players may have a higher expectation on Day 2 as it guarantees them 60K so less time to screw it if they initially get on a run.
Composition of 2D entrants isn’t surprising but wouldn’t change the above fact.
Day 1C and 1D had a big drop in relation to 2024 when it broke 10K entries.
1C: 1573 v 2528
1D: 4688 v 5014
So most likely it will also come below the ~9700 entries of 2025.
In relation to late-reg that only makes sense in tournaments where edges are small, or you have access to other games with higher hourly (hs cash game pros) which isn't the case for most.
I wonder how much the world cup has been eating into the WSOP. I wouldn't want to sit at a poker table with no way to watch any of the matches for the next 1-8 days.
I wonder how much the world cup has been eating into the WSOP. I wouldn't want to sit at a poker table with no way to watch any of the matches for the next 1-8 days.
In the poker rooms I play in, they show the matches, but not in the big room at the WSOP. Most of the players are from the US and the World Cup is not a big deal in the US.
In terms of viewership of the live streams it's got to be significant. I love watching the WSOP and watched every second of the Main/PPC + others on PokerGo last several years. Since the World Cup started this year I've not watched a single second of the WSOP.
In terms of players can only guess but imo it will have been very significant as well.
I wonder how much the world cup has been eating into the WSOP. I wouldn't want to sit at a poker table with no way to watch any of the matches for the next 1-8 days.
I’d say 5% is possible. There are probably some people going to games that may have normally played the main. Then those in town on the fence that might choose to play other stuff, possibly cash instead to have a variable schedule
While it’s on in the room, it’s just not the same.
It hasn't mattered. I was just there and people were just watching it on their phone where it wasn't readily available.
It could be that a name pro winning the ME last year made amateurs think they have less chance.
I wonder how much the world cup has been eating into the WSOP. I wouldn't want to sit at a poker table with no way to watch any of the matches for the next 1-8 days.
The world cup has been playing on a bunch of the TVs in the WSOP room that I’m in.
Its more so the fact that you cant attend a game live that happens during the main.. so people wont enter if they have a ticket for a single live game that happens during the main. If you are spanish, french, english, portuguese, norwegian, belgian etc and you are in the US right now.. its gonna be a hard sell to play a tournament that hinders you from watching your team in the knockouts.
Watching the game on TV is a massive, massive downgrade for any euro if watching it in the stadium is a realistic opportunity
it's just overall economics we expected numbers to be down from last year a little and they are.
poker generally does this, goes up then it comes back down a little and stabilizes more or less for awhile. I didn't play though so -1 there I guess.
If you're a rec though day 2 is a lot better as it's a lot less time needed off and a lot more likely it's just oh well whatever vs you made a bad call for a lot of chips.
world cup might be slight but that really is insignificant. Actually surprised C didn't get more a dropoff due to usa 250th, thought people would skip that day and enter d.
last year's numbers vs this year
1d 4997 4694
1c 1678 1573
1b 1096 1038
1a 923 772
