World Series of Poker prizes
 

I just watched one of the World Series of Poker shows on ESPN. The prizes were:

Place - Prize

9th - $32,870
8th - $49,305
7th - $65,740
6th - $82,175
5th - $98,610
4th - $131,480
3rd - $164,350
2nd - $299,360
1st - $542,360

Makes me want to enter one. Have you ever participated in a National Poker Tournament?

main event had better prizes : )

1 Joseph Hachem $7,500,000
2 Steve Dannenmann $4,250,000
3 Tex Barch $2,500,000
4 Aaron Kanter $2,000,000
5 Andrew Black $1,750,000
6 Scott Lazar $1,500,000
7 Daniel Bergsdorf $1,300,000
8 Brad Kondracki $1,150,000
9 Mike Matusow $1,000,000

Wow! How can they afford to give away so much money? I've got to think that I could maybe luck my way into a small prize, maybe?

Cause you gotta pay to enter....

Buy-in: $10,000
Number of Entries: 5,619
Total Prize Money: $52,818,610

and the top 560 made a profit...

That settles it! We are going to start the GFY World Series of Poker. We will give away half? of the total prize money and split the other $25,000,000.