wsop Main Event numbers since the Poker Boom
Year - Number of Entrants - Champion - First Prize
2003 - 839 - Chris Moneymaker - $2,500,000
2004 - 2,576 - Greg Raymer - $5,000,000
2005 - 5,619 - Joe Hachem - $7,500,000
2006 - 8,773 - Jamie Gold - $12,000,000
2007 - 6,358 - Jerry Yang - $8,250,000
2008 - 6,844 - Peter Eastgate - $9,152,416
2009 - 6,494 - Joe Cada - $8,574,649
2010 - 7,319 - Jonathan Duhamel - $8,944,138
2011 - 6,865 - Pius Heinz - $8,715,638
2012 - 6,598 - Greg Merson - $8,531,835
2013 - 6,352 - Ryan Riess - $8,359,531
2014 - 6,683 - Martin Jacobson - $10,000,000
2015 - 6,420 - Joe McKeehen - $7,683,346
2016 - 6,737 - Qui Nguyen - $8,005,310
Top10 after Day 1A:
1, Morten Mortensen [Denmark] 276,000
2, Sam Grafton [United Kingdom] 231,600
3, Griffin Abel [United States] 226,000
4, Jonathan Little [United States] 211,300
5, David Eldridge [United States] 207,000
6, Nachman Berlin [United States] 205,000
7, Frank Crivello [United States] 192,000
8, Michael Ravn [Denmark] 188,800
9, Rahul Byrraju [
india] 186,100
10, Ronnie Brown [United States] 181,100