The problem is that everyone's gunning for the pros. There's very little chance they'll win just because they'll have to get lucky so many times just to manage to survive. People will be calling any bet with anything, just for a chance.

In addition to that, a good player would easily be able to pick up on their tells, since they're shown so much on TV.

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I think that being an all-around poker player is AWESOME.
I guess that makes me the odd one out, here...
"You can ask the sky to summon the wind, but the sky will summon what wind it will."

so its only 8k this year ??

last year was around that number too ?

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Poker

last year was 8773...

Guess Jamie Gold didn't have that Moneymaker charm.

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I think that being an all-around poker player is AWESOME.
I guess that makes me the odd one out, here...
"You can ask the sky to summon the wind, but the sky will summon what wind it will."

So it looks like just over 6k entrants this year, down close to 2k from last year.

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If you are one in a million, there's eight just like you in Manhattan.

i noticed.. the online gambling registration really fucked up the amount of entrants

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stop worrying so much and just let go.

From Cardplayer.com

"The tournament details have just been announced. 6,358 players entered this year's main event, creating a $59,784,954 prize pool. This tournament will pay 621 places, with 621st place taking home $20,320 and 1st place place pocketing $8,250,000. The full prize pool will be updated shortly."

guess it won't be as exciting to watch on tv seeing how some random guy won 12 million last year, people expect bigger paycheck.