The 2016 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event, currently underway in Las Vegas, has attracted its fifth largest field of all time.
A total of 6,737 players forked out the US$10,000 entry fee over three Day 1 flights earlier this week, creating a prize pool of almost US$70 million and a first prize of US$8 million. It is the WSOP’s biggest main event field since 2011.
The 2016 WSOP has already been a hugely successful one for Chinese players, with 48-year-old Yue Du from Chongqing City becoming just the second Chinese player of all time to win a WSOP bracelet when he took down a US$5,000 No Limit Hold’em event.
Yueqi Zhu, Yang Zhang and Yaxi Zhu have also reached final tables throughout the series.
