As many of you know, I don’t play poker, except in the occasional charity tournament (mostly because poker and ADHD do not a great combination make).  However, my brother, father and stepmother are all winning tournament poker players.  So, with the three of them all having successfully made it through Day 1 of the Main Event, I figured I’d give the non-poker world a look at the numbers behind the enormity of this tournament.

Dates:  Main Event: July 9th – 18th, 2016
            Final Table (aka “November Nine”):  October 30th – November 1st

Location:  Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino; Las Vegas, NV

US Telecast Partner:  ESPN

WSOP Year:  46

Owner:  Caesars Interactive Entertainment   

Defending Champion:  Joe McKeehen (USA)

Event:  68 of 68 

Buy-in:  $10,000

Prize Pool:  $63,327,800

First Place:  $8,000,000

Number of players:  6,737 (highest in five years, 5th highest ever)   

Number of Shulmans:  3 - Jeff (brother), Barry (father), and Allyn (stepmother)*         

Places Paid:  1,011 ($15,000 to whomever places 1,011st – the most in history)

Value of Chips in Play:  $336,850,000 ($50,000 in chips given to each player)

Number of Chips in Play:  229,058 (34 individual poker chips given to each player)

Dealers:  866

Decks of Cards:  1,522

Countries Represented:  80         

Average Age:  just over 40 years old

Oldest Player:  William Wachter; Mahopac, NY (95 years old)        

Youngest Player:  Evan House-Hull; Sandoval, IL (21 years, 19 days old)

Men:  6,469 (two Shulmans)

Women:  268 (one Shulman)

Celebrities:  Brad Garrett, Ray Romano, Jennifer Tilly, and Kevin Pollack (actors), Gavin Polone (producer), Nick Cassavetes (director), Hoodie Allen (rapper), and such athletes as Brad Lidge (baseball), John Arne Riise (soccer), Richard Seymour and Antoine Winfield (football) Shane Warne (cricket), and Jason White (auto racing)

Main Event | World Series of Poker 2016
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[Editor's Note: Both Jeff and Barry played in "Flight A" and are currently playing their Day 2; Allyn played in "Flight B" and will play her Day 2, tomorrow]