
^ "50th World Series of Poker - WSOP 2019, No Limit Hold'em - WSOP Main Event: Hendon Mob Poker Database"."Stanley Choi Wins Macau High Stakes Challenge for US$6,465,746". "The Biggest One-World's Most Spectacular Poker Extravaganza Starts Sunday". Bryn Kenney received a larger cash prize of £16,775,820 ($20,563,324) for 2nd place. Īll of the 30 richest tournaments to date were played in No Limit Hold'em.Ģ019 Triton Super High Roller Series - Triton MillionĢ012 WSOP Event 55 – The Big One for One DropĢ014 WSOP Event 57 – The Big One for One DropĢ019 PokerStars NL Hold'em Players ChampionshipĢ018 WSOP Event 78 – The Big One for One DropĢ012 Macau High Stakes Challenge Super High RollerĢ016 WSOP Event 67 – High Roller for One DropĢ013 WSOP Event 47 – One Drop High RollerĢ013 GuangDong Ltd Asia Millions Main Eventĭue to a prize splitting deal Aaron Zang received £13,779,491 ($16,775,820) for 1st, original payout for 1st was £19,000,000 ($23,100,000). The event drew a field of 73, of which 21 made a rebuy, resulting in a prize pool of HK$182,360,000 (slightly over US$23.5 million). The second largest pool for any event outside of the WSOP was the 2012 Macau High Stakes Challenge, with a HK$2 million (US$260,000) buy-in plus a rebuy option. All 48 seats available for that event were filled, resulting in a prize pool of $42,666,672, with over 5 million dollars donated.

Of the buy-in, $111,111 was a charitable donation to the One Drop Foundation, and the WSOP took no rake. It featured a buy-in of US$1 million, the largest in poker history. The second largest prize pool outside of the Main Event is the 2012 WSOP event known as The Big One for One Drop, held from July 1–3.

This list includes live and online poker.Ĭurrently, 14 of the 15 largest prize pools in history have been WSOP Main Events.

īelow are the 30 largest poker tournaments with respect to the prize pool in United States dollars and not number of entrants. The largest non Hold'em Tournament has been the 2008 WSOP $50K HORSE with a prize pool of $7,104,000 and the first prize of $1,989,120 going to Scotty Nguyen. The WSOP Main Event of 2004 had the first prize pool of above $10,000,000. The first tournament to reach a million dollar prize pool was the 1983 WSOP Main Event. With the exception of 1992, the US$10,000 buy-in tournament increased in prize pool year-over-year from its start in 1970 until 2007 (the latter a result of the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006, which reduced the number of players winning their seats via online play).

For the last several years, the largest tournament in the world has been the World Series of Poker Main Event.
