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GGPoker ambassador Michael Mizrachi Bags Big as Main Event Registration Closes with 9,208 Entries

By Mrinal Gujare

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Mrinal Gujare 1 hour ago

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2026 WSOP Main Event draws 9,208 players, 4th largest in history.
Prize pool reaches $85.6 million; Mizrachi and Ivey among headliners.
Day 3 begins Wednesday, with play continuing until August 5 finale.

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The 2026 WSOP Main Event officially closed registration with 9,208 players, creating an $85,625,100 prize pool as the fourth-largest field ever. Defending champion Michael Mizrachi bagged a big stack, while Phil Ivey was among the final late entries.

The official registration numbers for the 2026 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event are finalized, locking in another massive turnout for poker’s most prestigious annual tournament.

A field of 9,208 players generated a total prize pool of $85,625,100, securing its place as the fourth-largest Main Event field in the 57-year history of the tournament.

The tournament, which historically attracted between 6,500 and 8,000 players from 2006 to 2022, has now established a modern trend of consistently pulling in over 9,000 entrants per year.

The absolute record remains at 10,112 entrants from the 2024 tournament, the historic year that saw Jonathan Tamayo crowned as the world champion.

While the 2026 field did not surpass that all-time high, it safely cements itself as one of the largest poker fields ever assembled.

The current atmosphere of the 2026 Main Event shares notable similarities with the 2025 edition, characterized by a staggering field size and a highly productive run by defending champion Michael Mizrachi.

The GGPoker ambassador built up a significant stack on Day 2abc, bagging over 200,000 chips by the end of Monday’s session. He will advance to the next stage of the tournament on Wednesday holding an above-average chip stack.

As registration reached its final moments, Poker Hall of Famer and 11-time WSOP bracelet winner Phil Ivey emerged as one of the final participants to enter the field.

Ivey took his seat inside Paris Las Vegas immediately following the second break of the day, right as the registration window closed, starting his campaign with the standard 60,000-chip starting stack.

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