Event #19: $500 COLOSSUS
Day 1a Started
2025 World Series of Poker
Event #19: $500 COLOSSUS
Day: 1a
Event Info
2025 World Series of Poker
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Players Info - Day 1a
Buy-in
$500
Prize Pool
$6,644,102
Entries
16,301
Level
49
Blinds
8,000,000 / 16,000,000
Ante
16,000,000
Entries
2,773
Players Left
410
Players Left 1 / 16,301
Filter
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Welcome back to PokerNews, the official media partner of the 2025 World Series of Poker and home of live updates from all bracelet events.
Are you ready to take on the Colossus? Today marks the start of the first of four flights in Event #19: $500 Colossus No-Limit Hold'em, which sees a slight increase in buy-in from the $400 of previous editions. The Colossus is one of the cheapest bracelet-awarding events on the 2025 WSOP schedule, so expect a bumper crowd to descend on the Horseshoe and Paris Las Vegas over the next few days.
PokerNews live updates begin on Day 2 at 11 a.m. local time on Sunday, June 8.
Day 1 players start with 50,000 chips and play 40-minute levels throughout the tournament. Play on Day 1 lasts for 17 levels, with players heading on a 20-minute break every three levels or when the floor staff color up. A 75-minute dinner break is scheduled after Level 12 (~7:00 p.m.). If you play this event and bust, you may reenter once per flight.
Day 2, on June 8, sees the surviving players from the four starting flights combine and fight it out over the course of 15 levels. June 9 is when the third and final day commences, although its start time is yet to be decided.
Last year's Colossus was the best-attended since the WSOP created it. Some 19,337 players bought in, creating a colossal $5,940,883 prize pool. Bulgarian grinder Martin Alcaide captured the lion's share of the pot, $501,250, and his first WSOP bracelet.
Speaking to PokerNews shortly after his victory, Alcaide said, "I feel so relieved mostly. I was mostly just scared of losing, which is not a good mindset, so I was just trying to concentrate on the hands, so I'm relieved more to be rid of the tension than the happiness right now, but I'm sure that will change."
| Year | Entries | Winner | Country | Payout |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 19,337 | Martin Alcaide | $501,250 | |
| 2023 | 15,879 | Moshe Refaelowitz | $501,120 | |
| 2022 | 13,565 | Paul Hizer | $414,490 | |
| 2021 | 9,399 | Anatolii Zyrin | $314,705 | |
| 2019 | 13,109 | Sejin Park | $451,272 |
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The World Series of Poker (WSOP) has officially launched its new WSOP+ app for the 2025 series in Las Vegas, promising to dramatically improve the player experience by reducing wait times and streamlining event access.
Available now for iOS and Android, the WSOP+ app allows players to pre-register for live events, skip lengthy registration lines, and receive real-time updates about seat availability through a virtual queue and push notifications. The app also becomes a central hub for all WSOP essentials, including event schedules, structure sheets, chip counts, rules, daily results, prize payouts, and more.
"WSOP+ will further elevate the WSOP experience for all of our players," said Ty Stewart, CEO of the World Series of Poker. "Not only can our community now save time and effort by registering in advance for their favorite tournaments, but the app will also showcase WSOP content and all of the important event information that participants are eager to have at their fingertips!"
The 2025 World Series of Poker is underway, and poker’s biggest and most prestigious festival is back in its now-familiar home on the Las Vegas Strip.
For the fourth consecutive summer, the great and good of the poker world will descend on the Horseshoe and Paris Las Vegas, a venue that, despite being a relatively recent change, already feels like home for the game’s biggest names and dream-chasers.
PokerNews is here to give you a guide on things like:
- Parking at Horseshoe and Paris
- WSOP Tournament Rooms
- Las Vegas Hotels During the WSOP
- Where to eat at the WSOP
- and much more...
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