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This year's World Series of Poker Champion is going to take home $12million! That's one heck of a pay day...... Of the 8775 or so players, 873 will make the money. The bubble bustout (874th) will probably get a freeroll into next years event like they did last year.

Here's the prize pool breakdown.

1 - $12,000,000
2 - $6,102,499
3 - $4,123,310
4 - $3,628,513
5 - $3,216,182
6 - $2,803,851
7 - $2,391,520
8 - $1,979,189
9 - $1,566,858

10-12 - $1,154,527
13-15 - $907,128
16-18 - $659,730
19-27 - $494,797
28-36 - $329,865
37-45 - $247,399
46-54 - $164,932
55-63 - $123,699
64-72 - $90,713
73-81 - $65,973

82-126 - $51,129
127-189 - $47,006
190-252 - $42,882
253-315 - $38,759
316-378 - $34,636
379-441 - $30,512
442-504 - $26,389
505-567 - $22,266
568-621 - $20,617
622-666 - $19,050
667-720 - $17,730
721-774 - $16,493
775-819 - $15,504
820-873 - $14,597

That also means that Harrahs will pocket about $5.26 million from this event alone due to their 6% juice. Add that to the juice from the other events, the room and F&B revenue and the sponsorship fees and Harrahs would be making an easy 8 figures from the WSOP this year.

If only they treated the participants and the companies that send them players like they were valued customers.... But that's a topic for another blog post.

Kris @ Poker.com