2010 World Series of Poker

Event #43: $10,000 H.O.R.S.E. Championship
Day: 1
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Event Info
2010 World Series of Poker
Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
9♥9♠
Prize
$611,666
Event Info
Buy-in
$10,000
Prize Pool
$2,265,400
Entries
241
Level Info
Level
29
Blinds
60,000 / 120,000
Ante
0
Players Left 1 / 241

The Numbers Game

This event is a new one to the WSOP schedule after the $50,000 H.O.R.S.E. event evolved into the Player's Championship this year. The $10,000 buy-in level usually provides somewhere around the 170-200 player mark but it looks like we're going to eclipse that mark today which is a great result.

It appears that the number of entrants today will actually be greater than the number of entrants for any of the poker variants as individual events over the past two years.

Holdem (Limit): 2009 - 185 entrants, 2010 - 171 entrants
Omaha/8: 2009 - 179 entrants, 2010 - 212 entrants
Razz: There is no $10,000 Razz event
Stud: 2009 - 142 entrants, 2010 - 150 entrants
Stud/8: 2009 - 164 entrants, 2010 - 170 entrants

So it's interesting to observe that H.O.R.S.E. as a whole is proving more popular than any of the disciplines individually, as mixed games, especially at the lower limits, are growing in popularity.