2017 Wsop Main Event Entries
Posted : admin On 4/3/20222017 WSOP Main Event Prize will be 10th Largest Ever. Thanks to all the entries, the 2017 ME champion will take home $8,150,000 – the 10th-largest payout in Main Event history. The all-time record is the $12,000,000 payout that Jamie Gold won in 2006. Not coincidentally, this year also set the record for most Main Event entries with 8,773.
Action has started extremely slowly here at King's Casino. Only a handful of tables are even dealing as the 120-odd players who are registered for Day 1b are spread between a multitude of tables as more entries slowly trickle in.
While there's little to watch early from a poker sense, we thought we'd take a look at the World Series of Poker Player of the Year standings heading into the very last points event f the year. It was a hot topic heading into WSOP Europe, with the much-maligned Chris Ferguson leading the way after a strong WSOP that saw him rack up a highly impressive 17 cashes, including two final tables that both saw him place top-four in $10,000 Championship events.
The 2017 WSOP schedule feature 74 bracelet events, including eight new additions. The main event begins on July 8 with the November 9 set on July 17. The 2017 WSOP Europe run from October 19 to November 10 and will feature 11 bracelet events, ranging in buy-in from €550 to €111,111. The guaranteed prize pools exceed €20,000,000. Festivities kick off with the €1,100 Monster Stack event, with three starting flights on October 19, 20, and 21. The Main Event Overview The pinnacle of the series was the $525 buy-in Main Event, which started on Sunday, January 31. The tournament saw a total of 583 players and 310 re-entries.
Of course, Ferguson only solidified his standing here at King's. He tacked on six more cashes, the most recent of which resulted in his sixth bracelet win, coming in the $1,500 PLO8 event.
While Ferguson has showed up and showed out, making headlines along the way, he isn't out of the woods just yet.
John Racener, Ryan Hughes, Mike Leah and Alex Foxen are four of the next five players in the standings. All four made the journey here to Rozvadov. While the latter two appear to be too far behind to make up necessary ground, Racener and Hughes appear to be drawing live still.
Currently, Racener is 136 points back of Ferguson. Hughes has more ground to make up at 184 points.
Using the handy calculator the WSOP has provided to make a rough guess of Player of the Year points, it looks like a min-cash here in the Main Event will be worth approximately 50 points. Since the winner here is guaranteed €1 million, we can have a good idea that first place will award about 230 points.
Given that, even a min-cash for Ferguson here would likely cement him the banner. Hughes would surely need a final table run and likely a brick from Ferguson. Racener has a little more room to make his pass, but he needs a very strong result as well, especially if Ferguson were to cash.
One ultra-long shot: Kenny Hallaert. He made the final table of the High Roller for One Drop here in Rozvadov, albeit with just a handful of big blinds. If he were to somehow win that, and then win the Main Event, and Ferguson were to miss cashing here in the Main, Hallaert would appear likely to move past the six-time bracelet winner. Check with your bookie to see what odds you can get on that parlay. For fun only of course — we at PokerNews do not endorse unregulated gambling.
Here's a look at the top 10 standings:
2017 Wsop Results
| Place | Player | Points |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chris Ferguson | 1,178.53 |
| 2 | John Racener | 1,042.04 |
| 3 | Ryan Hughes | 994.32 |
| 4 | John Monnette | 865.21 |
| 5 | Mike Leah | 849.16 |
| 6 | Alex Foxen | 833.45 |
| 7 | Dario Sammartino | 775.89 |
| 8 | Ray Henson | 768.49 |
| 9 | Ben Yu | 766.49 |
| 10 | Kenny Hallaert | 742.38 |
And here's a look at the history of the WSOP POY honors:
| Year | Winner | Bracelets Won | Final Tables |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | Daniel Negreanu | 1 | 5 |
| 2005 | Allen Cunningham | 1 | 4 |
| 2006 | Jeff Madsen | 2 | 4 |
| 2007 | Tom Schneider | 2 | 3 |
| 2008 | Erick Lindgren | 1 | 3 |
| 2009 | Jeff Lisandro | 3 | 4 |
| 2010 | Frank Kassela | 2 | 3 |
| 2011 | Ben Lamb | 1 | 4 |
| 2012 | Greg Merson | 2 | 2 |
| 2013 | Daniel Negreanu | 2 | 4 |
| 2014 | George Danzer | 3 | 5 |
| 2015 | Mike Gorodinsky | 1 | 3 |
| 2016 | Jason Mercier | 2 | 4 |
Chris Ferguson is poised to be crowned the 2017 World Series of Poker Player of the Year. The news came in an announcement by the WSOP via Twitter on Monday, following the elimination of second-in-points John Racener from the final POY-eligible event of the year.
John Racener has been eliminated from the WSOPE Main Event, meaning Chris Ferguson is the 2017 WSOP Player of the Year winner.
— WSOP (@WSOP)For his POY win, Ferguson will receive an entry into the $10,000 buy-in WSOP Main Event next year and get his face on a banner that will be displayed in the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino with the other former WSOP Players of the Year and WSOP Main Event winners. Here's a look at the elite group of POY winners that Ferguson will be joining.
2017 Wsop Main Event Entries Per Year
| Year | Winner | Bracelets Won | Final Tables |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | Daniel Negreanu | 1 | 5 |
| 2005 | Allen Cunningham | 1 | 4 |
| 2006 | Jeff Madsen | 2 | 4 |
| 2007 | Tom Schneider | 2 | 3 |
| 2008 | Erick Lindgren | 1 | 3 |
| 2009 | Jeff Lisandro | 3 | 4 |
| 2010 | Frank Kassela | 2 | 3 |
| 2011 | Ben Lamb | 1 | 4 |
| 2012 | Greg Merson | 2 | 2 |
| 2013 | Daniel Negreanu | 2 | 4 |
| 2014 | George Danzer | 3 | 5 |
| 2015 | Mike Gorodinsky | 1 | 3 |
| 2016 | Jason Mercier | 2 | 4 |
Race to the Top
Ferguson went into the WSOPE in October with the lead in the Player of the Year race after his 17 cashes and two top-four finishes in $10,000 Championship events in the 2017 WSOP in Las Vegas. His summer performance earned him a €10,350 buy-in to the WSOPE Main Event at King's Casino in Rozvadov which kicked off with two starting flights over the weekend.
After six WSOPE cashes including his sixth bracelet win in Event #7: €1,650 Pot-Limit Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better for €39,289, Ferguson extended his lead in the POY race as the final qualifying event neared.
Heading into the WSOPE Main Event on Saturday, Racener was in the best position to challenge Ferguson for POY, sitting 136 points behind, while Ryan Hughes had 184 points to make up in third place. When Racener was eliminated on Day 2 Monday, Ferguson had the title locked up.
Following are the updated POY standings:
Wsop Main Event Schedule
| Place | Player | Points |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chris Ferguson | 1,178.53 |
| 2 | John Racener | 1,042.04 |
| 3 | Ryan Hughes | 994.35 |
| 4 | John Monnette | 865.21 |
| 5 | Mike Leah | 849.16 |
| 6 | Kenny Hallaert | 838.35 |
| 7 | Alex Foxen | 833.45 |
| 8 | Dario Sammartino | 775.89 |
| 9 | Ray Henson | 768.49 |
| 10 | Ben Yu | 766.49 |
2017 Wsop Main Event Schedule
Player Reactions
As a controversial figure in the poker world since his alleged involvement in the Full Tilt Poker scandal, Ferguson stayed clear of live poker tournaments after 'Black Friday' on April 15, 2011 but made a return to the felt in the 2016 WSOP, prompting outrage from many in the community.
After finishing ninth in the 2016 POY race that Jason Mercier won, now, in his second year back in the public eye, Ferguson captures the highly-esteemed POY title to join an elite bunch of well-respected players in the community. Ferguson's impressive run during the WSOPE received support from Phil Hellmuth on Twitter, which in turn spurred much negative feedback from Daniel Negreanu and others.
Players' reactions captured by PokerNews' Julia Lee at WSOPE Rozvadov were mostly positive and congratulatory towards Ferguson with the exception of 888poker Ambassador and online poker pro Parker Talbot aka 'Tonkaaaap', who feels that Ferguson's winning of the POY title is ... let's just say — not good for poker.
2017 Wsop Main Event Dates
While all are entitled to their opinions on the merits of Ferguson as the newest POY member, as well as opinions on the formula for calculating POY, none can argue with the impressive results Ferguson has had this year, and it is those results that have propelled him to the top of the POY race for 2017.
2017 Wsop Main Event Entries
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