The largest guaranteed prize pool in poker history was announced Thursday -- $40 million for the 2023 World Poker Tour World Championship in Las Vegas.
The previous record for a guaranteed prize pool for a live poker tournament was $15 million, set last year at the WPT World Championship.
"The WPT World Championship at Wynn Las Vegas is poised to reach new heights and we wanted to match that expectation with a guarantee that no live poker tournament has ever seen before," Adam Pliska, CEO of the World Poker Tour, said in a release announcing the tournament. Poker has seen a recent surge in interest after the pandemic. This year's World Series of Poker set multiple records, including 10,043 entries into the Main Event, which had a non-guaranteed prize pool of $93.3 million. A record 77 events in the World Series of poker had million-dollar prize pools.
The WPT World Championship includes a $1 million buy-in tournament. Last year's WPT championship event produced $4.1 million payout for last year's winner, Eliot Hudon of Canada.
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