2014 World Series of Poker

Event #8: $1,500 Millionaire Maker No-Limit Hold'em
Day: 1a
Event Info

2014 World Series of Poker

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
62
Prize
$1,319,587
Event Info
Buy-in
$1,500
Prize Pool
$10,768,950
Entries
7,977
Level Info
Level
37
Blinds
250,000 / 500,000
Ante
50,000

Final Number For Day 1a

Level 8 : 200/400, 50 ante

According to Seth Palanksy via Twitter, the final number of entrants for Day 1a was 4,722, Quite the turnout and with Day 1b registration open until 11:45 pm and 7,707 entrants it's completely possible that we'll top the 8,000 entrant mark. To put this into perspective, this is now the 2nd largest live poker tournament in history:

2006 WSOP Main Event - 8,773 entrants
2014 WSOP Millionaire Maker - 7,707 and growing
2010 WSOP Main Event - 7,319 entrants
2011 WSOP Main Event - 6,865 entrants
2008 WSOP Main Event - 6,844 entrants

The big difference, however, is this event seats all the players in one day while the WSOP Main Event has always had 3-4 starting days. An impressive feat to say the least.