Prizepool and Payouts
The numbers are in folks, a total of 721 players entered the first event at the 2010 World Series of Poker. Although that number is slightly down from last years 866, it still created a first-place prize worth $71,424! That's quite the payday for a buy-in of just $500.
Getting to the money will earn you $914 and that means you've made it down to the final 72 players. A total prizepool of $324,450 will be awarded and here's how the final table payouts will look.
1st - $71,424
2nd - $44,079
3rd - $28,655
4th - $21,047
5th - $15,677
6th - $11,829
7th - $9,029
8th - $6,969
9th - $5,434