I always thought that the WSOP Main Event was a $10,000 buy-in with 10,000 tourney chips to each player. I dont know if this was posted before, but I was wondering how come this years WSOP ME was so high in chips, and found this update in the WSOP homepage:
"64 minutes ago
Dinner Break Until 8:30 pm PDT
All four chip counts have been triple-checked and confirmed. The total number of chips in play is 127,475,000. (The theoretical number, based on 20,000 in starting chips times 6,358 players, is 127,160,000.) Seat 1 - Raymond Rahme - 33.20 million Seat 2 - Alex Kravchenko - 11.75 million Seat 4 - Jerry Yang - 71.275 million Seat 6 - Tuan Lam - 11.25 million"
Are all the players in the ME starting with 20,000 in chips now????? If so when was it changed???
Wouldnt 6356 player X 10,000 buy in only = 63,560,000 in chips????
I have got to know, it is driving me crazy.
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