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For the last eight years, the largest tournament in the world has been the World Series of Poker Main Event. With the exception of 1992, the US$10,000 buy-in tournament increased in prize pool year-over-year from its start in 1970 until 2007 (the latter a result of the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006, which reduced the number of players winning their seats via online play).
The first tournament to reach a million dollar prize pool was the 1983 WSOP Main Event. The WSOP Main Event of 2004 had the first prize pool of above $10,000,000.
The largest non Hold'em Tournament has been the 2008 WSOP $50K HORSE with a prize pool of $7,104,000 and the first prize of $1,989,120 going to Scotty Nguyen.[1]
Below are the 30 largest poker tournaments with respect to the prize pool in United States dollars and not number of entrants. This list includes live and online poker.
Currently, 14 of the 15 largest prize pools in history have been WSOP Main Events. The second largest prize pool outside of the Main Event is the 2012 WSOP event known as The Big One for One Drop, held from July 1–3. It featured a buy-in of US$1 million, the largest in poker history. Of the buy-in, $111,111 was a charitable donation to the One Drop Foundation, and the WSOP took no rake. All 48 seats available for that event were filled, resulting in a prize pool of $42,666,672, with over 5 million dollars donated.[2] The second largest pool for any event outside of the WSOP was the 2012 Macau High Stakes Challenge, with a HK$2 million (US$260,000) buy-in plus a rebuy option. The event drew a field of 73, of which 21 made a rebuy, resulting in a prize pool of HK$182,360,000 (slightly over US$23.5 million).[3]
All of the 30 richest tournaments to date were played in No Limit Hold'em.
| Event | Prize Pool (US$) | Winner | 1st Prize | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 WSOP Main Event | $82,512,162 | Jamie Gold | $12,000,000 | [4][5] |
| 2019 WSOP Main Event | $80,548,600 | Hossein Ensan | $10,000,000 | [6] |
| 2018 WSOP Main Event | $74,015,600 | John Cynn | $8,800,000 | [7] |
| 2010 WSOP Main Event | $68,799,059 | Jonathan Duhamel | $8,944,310 | [8] |
| 2017 WSOP Main Event | $67,877,400 | Scott Blumstein | $8,150,000 | [9] |
| 2019 Triton Super High Roller Series - Triton Million | $65,660,000 (£54,000,000) | Aaron Zang | $23,100,000 (£19,000,000) | [10] |
| 2011 WSOP Main Event | $64,531,000 | Pius Heinz | $8,711,956 | [11] |
| 2008 WSOP Main Event | $64,333,600 | Peter Eastgate | $9,152,416 | [12] |
| 2016 WSOP Main Event | $63,327,800 | Qui Nguyen | $8,005,310 | [13] |
| 2014 WSOP Main Event | $62,820,200 | Martin Jacobson | $10,000,000 | [14] |
| 2012 WSOP Main Event | $62,021,200 | Greg Merson | $8,527,982 | [15] |
| 2009 WSOP Main Event | $61,043,600 | Joe Cada | $8,547,042 | [16] |
| 2015 WSOP Main Event | $60,348,000 | Joe McKeehen | $7,680,021 | [17] |
| 2007 WSOP Main Event | $59,784,954 | Jerry Yang | $8,250,000 | [18] |
| 2013 WSOP Main Event | $59,708,800 | Ryan Riess | $8,359,531 | [19] |
| 2005 WSOP Main Event | $52,818,610 | Joe Hachem | $7,500,000 | [20] |
| 2012 WSOP Event 55 – The Big One for One Drop | $42,666,672 | Antonio Esfandiari | $18,346,673 | [21] |
| 2014 WSOP Event 57 – The Big One for One Drop | $37,333,338 | Dan Colman | $15,306,668 | [22] |
| 2016 Monte-Carlo One Drop Extravaganza | $27,437,564 | Elton Tsang | $12,248,912 | [23] |
| 2019 PokerStars NL Hold'em Players Championship | $26,455,500 | Ramon Colillas | $5,100,000 | [24] |
| 2018 WSOP Event 78 – The Big One for One Drop | $24,840,000 | Justin Bonomo | $10,000,000 | [25] |
| 2004 WSOP Main Event | $24,224,400 | Greg Raymer | $5,000,000 | [26] |
| 2012 Macau High Stakes Challenge Super High Roller | $23,511,128 | Stanley Choi | $6,465,560 | [27] |
| Super High Roller Bowl 2015 | $21,500,000 | Brian Rast | $7,525,000 | [28] |
| 2016 WSOP Event 67 – High Roller for One Drop | $19,316,565 | Fedor Holz | $4,981,775 | [29] |
| 2013 WSOP Event 47 – One Drop High Roller | $17,891,148 | Anthony Gregg | $4,830,619 | [30] |
| Super High Roller Bowl 2017 | $16,800,000 | Christoph Vogelsang | $6,000,000 | [31] |
| 2007 WPT Championship | $15,495,750 | Carlos Mortensen | $3,970,415 | [32] |
| 2013 GuangDong Ltd Asia Millions Main Event | $15,376,897 | Niklas Heinecker | $4,456,885 | [33] |
| 2011 Pokerstars Caribbean Adventure | $15,132,000 | Galen Hall | $2,300,000 | [34] |
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The final table of the 2018 $1,000,000 buy-in World Series of Poker Big One For One Drop no-limit hold’em event is set. A total of 27 players posted the seven-figure buy-in for this event, building a prize pool of $24,840,000 and raising over $2 million for the One Drop Foundation. After two full days of ultra high stakes action only six players remain with a shot at the bracelet and the first-place prize of $10,525,000.
Here is a look at the chip counts heading into the final table:
| Rank | Player | Chip Count |
| 1 | Justin Bonomo | 48,950,000 |
| 2 | Fedor Holz | 22,125,000 |
| 3 | Dan Smith | 21,450,000 |
| 4 | Rick Salomon | 19,650,000 |
| 5 | David Einhorn | 12,300,000 |
| 6 | Byron Kaverman | 10,500,000 |
The chip leader with 48,950,000 of the 135,000,000 in play is none other than Justin Bonomo, (pictured above) who is currently sitting in the lead in the 2018 Card Player Player of the Year race. Bonomo has made 18 final tables in 2018 prior to this event, winning nine titles and cashing for an incredible $14,811,941 along the way. He won both the $2,000,000 HKDSuper High Roller Bowl China and the $300,000 Super High Roller Bowl in Las Vegas, and then captured his second WSOP bracelet by winning the $10,000 heads-up no-limit hold’em championship.
The 32-year-old poker pro has already had undeniably one of the best years on the tournament circuit in the history of poker, and if he were to emerge victorious tomorrow he will have officially cashed for the most money in a year, and it is not even August yet. Were he to win this event for the $10,000,000 top prize, Bonomo would surpass the $22,319,279 that Daniel Colman earned in 2014, surging to more than $24.8 million in earnings so far in 2018.
Bonomo currently sits in third place on the lifetime live tournament earnings list with $32,965,927. If he were to finish second or better in this event he will overtake Erik Seidel ($34,635,757) and Daniel Negreanu ($38,487,710) to become the leader on the all-time money list.
Joining Bonomo at the final table are two other players inside the top twenty on that list: Fedor Holz (6th – $26,987,103) and Dan Smith (14th – $21,099,119). Holz won his only WSOP bracelet by taking down the $111,111 One Drop high roller in 2016 for $4,981,775. Holz won $16,288,714 in live tournaments during that calendar year, a number Bonomo will surpass if he makes the money in this event.
Also at the final table is Rick Salomon, a former Hollywood producer who now plays in high-stakes poker games, and has cashed in two million-dollar buy-in events before. David Einhorn is hedge fund manager and philanthropist who is donating the entirety of his winnings in this event to charity. He finished third in the first-ever Big One For One Drop event, cashing for $4,352,000. The short stack is Byron Kaverman, a WSOP bracelet winner with $12,501,176 in lifetime earnings.
Plenty of big names hit the rail on day 2, including ten-time bracelet winner Phil Ivey. The Poker Hall of Fame member got the last of his chips in holding the AJ. He had run into the KK of Bonomo, who hit a set on the turn to send Ivey to the rail in eighth place.
Eight-time bracelet winner Erik Seidel, four-time bracelet winner Dominik Nitsche, six-time bracelet winner and current all-time money leader Daniel Negreanu and four-time bracelet winner Brian Rast were among the 16 players knocked out throughout the day.
Play ended on day 2 with the elimination of Nick Petrangelo in seventh place. Petrangelo, who won his second bracelet by taking down the $100,000 buy-in event earlier this summer, shoved with A8 and was called by Bonomo, who held pocket nines. Bonomo flopped a set and had Petrangelo drawing dead by the turn.
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Although there are now six players remaining, only the top five finishers will make the money in this event. That means one of the players who bagged up chips after day 2 will be eliminated on a $2,000,000 money bubble. Here is a look at the payouts that the five players who do make the money will be taking home:
| Place | Payout |
| 1 | $10,000,000 |
| 2 | $6,000,000 |
| 3 | $4,000,000 |
| 4 | $2,800,000 |
| 5 | $2,000,000 |
Play resumes at 5:30 p.m. Pacific time, with blinds at 250,000-500,000 with a big blind ante of 500,000.
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