2017 Wsop Main Event Entries

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Over the five-year period preceding the 2017 WSOP Main Event, attendance has been relatively consistent, with a low of 6,352 entries and a high of 6,737 entries. The average attendance over that span was 6,558 entries. WSOP Main Event attendance in 2017 bested that five-year average by nine percent. Joe Gotlieb has won the 2017 World Series of Poker Circuit Hard Rock $1,675 no-limit hold’em main event, defeating a field of 904 entries to capture his first WSOPC gold ring and the first place.

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The 2017 WSOP main event is halfway through Day 2, and as the biggest stacks climb closer to 1 million, several players are starting to make serious inroads to a deep run in the tournament.
With John Racener's elimination from the WSOPE Main Event, Chris Ferguson locked up the WSOP Player of the Year title in Rozvadov. The 2017 World Series of Poker. Entry into the $10,000 buy.
Thursday, July 20th, 2017 Written by Renee. The first part of our coverage on the 2017 WSOP Main Event highlighted the fact that this year’s Main Event was the third largest in terms of its guaranteed prize pool of $67,877,400 and the fact that the nine finalists will also take home a minimum of $1 million.

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Chris Ferguson is poised to be crowned the 2017 World Series of Poker Player of the Year. The news came in an announcement by the WSOP via Twitter on Monday, following the elimination of second-in-points John Racener from the final POY-eligible event of the year.

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John Racener has been eliminated from the WSOPE Main Event, meaning Chris Ferguson is the 2017 WSOP Player of the Year winner.

— WSOP (@WSOP)

For his POY win, Ferguson will receive an entry into the $10,000 buy-in WSOP Main Event next year and get his face on a banner that will be displayed in the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino with the other former WSOP Players of the Year and WSOP Main Event winners. Here's a look at the elite group of POY winners that Ferguson will be joining.

Year	Winner	Bracelets Won	Final Tables
2004	Daniel Negreanu	1	5
2005	Allen Cunningham	1	4
2006	Jeff Madsen	2	4
2007	Tom Schneider	2	3
2008	Erick Lindgren	1	3
2009	Jeff Lisandro	3	4
2010	Frank Kassela	2	3
2011	Ben Lamb	1	4
2012	Greg Merson	2	2
2013	Daniel Negreanu	2	4
2014	George Danzer	3	5
2015	Mike Gorodinsky	1	3
2016	Jason Mercier	2	4

Race to the Top

Ferguson went into the WSOPE in October with the lead in the Player of the Year race after his 17 cashes and two top-four finishes in $10,000 Championship events in the 2017 WSOP in Las Vegas. His summer performance earned him a €10,350 buy-in to the WSOPE Main Event at King's Casino in Rozvadov which kicked off with two starting flights over the weekend.

After six WSOPE cashes including his sixth bracelet win in Event #7: €1,650 Pot-Limit Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better for €39,289, Ferguson extended his lead in the POY race as the final qualifying event neared.

Heading into the WSOPE Main Event on Saturday, Racener was in the best position to challenge Ferguson for POY, sitting 136 points behind, while Ryan Hughes had 184 points to make up in third place. When Racener was eliminated on Day 2 Monday, Ferguson had the title locked up.

Following are the updated POY standings:

Place	Player	Points
1	Chris Ferguson	1,178.53
2	John Racener	1,042.04
3	Ryan Hughes	994.35
4	John Monnette	865.21
5	Mike Leah	849.16
6	Kenny Hallaert	838.35
7	Alex Foxen	833.45
8	Dario Sammartino	775.89
9	Ray Henson	768.49
10	Ben Yu	766.49

Player Reactions

As a controversial figure in the poker world since his alleged involvement in the Full Tilt Poker scandal, Ferguson stayed clear of live poker tournaments after 'Black Friday' on April 15, 2011 but made a return to the felt in the 2016 WSOP, prompting outrage from many in the community.

After finishing ninth in the 2016 POY race that Jason Mercier won, now, in his second year back in the public eye, Ferguson captures the highly-esteemed POY title to join an elite bunch of well-respected players in the community. Ferguson's impressive run during the WSOPE received support from Phil Hellmuth on Twitter, which in turn spurred much negative feedback from Daniel Negreanu and others.