Press Release: 2005 World Series of Poker

[2Tone]

for the size of the field in the 05 WSOP? Any bets? And how many spots do you think will pay over $1 million?

[bothecorgi]

Over/Under - 5,000

[GeoffM]

I'd bet they draw well over 5,000, as online poker is only picking up more steam abroad.

[ChipFish]

Me Plus at least 5000 others so I say 5001 or more.

[GeoffM]

Lets just hope you don't pull a Murphy and show up an hour late when there are only 50 left.

[omahilo]

it saids Day 1 would be 3 days and broke into groups of 2200 so I think 6600 might be the cutoff

[johnbaker]

i think maybe he did that on purpose to look cool on tv... no way he could actually sleep through that

-jB

[GeoffM]

To look cool?

The guy was playing for $5 million, I doubt he wanted to look cool and risk his chances.

They will not cap the amount of entrants, I don't believe. Why the hell would they? The more the people, the more money they make and the bigger the prize pool they can advertise for 2006. I'd say by 2006 you will see 10,000 players playing, and they may have no choice but to start the tourney online.

[ChipFish]

I've missed the second day of local GT tourneys a few times doing that.

[eddo31]

i was more surprised with the plo tourneys than anything else for the coming wsop. a 2k rebuy, 5k rebuy and a 10k plo tourney? that is a significant increase in that event. any reason why?

why did they kill horse/shoe? i would have thought that the pros woul dhave fought to keep those events particularly.