On this two-part collection, poker historian Robert Jen, who’s the self-proclaimed “World’s Best Unknown Poker Historian,” dives deep into the report books to supply up enjoyable information and stats heading into the 2025 World Sequence of Poker (WSOP), and what information poker participant and followers can anticipate to be damaged this summer season. He additionally gives up some long-standing information which have an opportunity to fall, in addition to some longshot information that most likely will not be damaged this 12 months, however you by no means know.
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In all probability Not Going to Occur (30-50%)
Consecutive Years with a Bracelet, Girls
Susie Isaacs (1996 & 1997), Nani Dollison (2000 & 2001), and Kristen Foxen (2023 & 2024) are the one girls to win a bracelet in consecutive years. Can Foxen make it three in a row and stake sole declare to being Mariah Carey, who set an all-time report with a primary track yearly from 1990 to 2000 (11 straight years)? Foxen would additionally break a tie with Nani Dollison (three within the 2000s) for essentially the most bracelets in a decade, once more paralleling Mariah Carey, who topped the charts a girl’s report 14 instances within the Nineteen Nineties.
NOTE: Jesse Yaginuma and Sean Troha can tie the general report of 4 straight years shared by Invoice Boyd (1971-74), Doyle Brunson (1976-79), and Loren Klein (2016-19).
Remaining Tables in One Yr, Girls
Kristen Foxen reached a report 5 closing tables in 2023. Solely two different girls have reached 4 closing tables in a 12 months since 2014 — Melissa Burr in 2014 and Esther Taylor in 2017 — and Foxen is the almost definitely candidate to interrupt her personal report anyway.
Most Remaining Tables in One Yr, Girls
Consecutive Many years With a Remaining Desk, Girls
Cyndy Violette, Esther Rossi, Linda Johnson, Marsha Waggoner, and J.J. Liu have all reached not less than one closing desk in 4 straight a long time. Liu’s streak already consists of the 2020s, however the remaining can lengthen their streaks to five and stake an unmatched declare to being Madonna or Whitney Houston, who every had a High 10 track in a female-record 4 straight a long time from the Nineteen Eighties to the 2010s.
Most Consecutive Many years With a Remaining Desk, Girls
NOTE: The general report of six (each decade of the WSOP) by Artie Cobb and Jim Bechtel is not going to change as every streak already consists of the 2020s. They share the title of the Michael Jackson of poker (5 straight a long time with a High 10 hit from the Seventies to the 2010s).
Remaining Tables in a Profession, Girls
Annie Duke as soon as held a slew of girls’s information, however one in every of her final ones, 15 profession closing tables, is now at risk. Kristen Foxen sits at 11 and is extra more likely to cross her than J.J. Liu at 12 and even Cyndy Violette at 13. Duke will however probably stay the Taylor Swift of poker for an additional 12 months (Swift has the feminine lifetime report of 59 High 10 hits).
Most Remaining Tables, Girls
NOTE: Phil Hellmuth holds the general report of 79, another than Drake has profession High 10 hits (78). The Poker Brat is more likely to lengthen his mark, and even when he does not, no person will catch him this 12 months except Daniel Negreanu in some way reaches 11 closing tables, which might shatter the yearly report of 8.
Cashes in One Yr, Girls
Michelle Shah set the report with 21 cashes in 2020, and Kathy Liebert tied her final 12 months. Though 2020 was an uncommon on-line 12 months through which Shah obliterated Maria Ho’s six-year-old report by 13, it solely took 4 years for the report to be tied, and it might take only one extra for it to be damaged. Liebert additionally logged 17 cashes in 2023, whereas Jessica Tuesl had 19 final 12 months and 18 in 2023.
Most Cashes in One Yr, Girls
Gamers within the Fundamental Occasion
The 2024 Fundamental Occasion edged previous 2023 with a report 10,112 gamers. The report has fallen in back-to-back years, nevertheless it took a late-registration flurry to get there final 12 months, and attendance will probably drop this 12 months because of the economic system and tourist-unfriendly government orders. Ditto for many locations paid (1,517) and largest prize pool ($94,041,600).
Greatest Fundamental Occasions
NOTE: The WSOP expanded payouts from about ten p.c of the sphere to fifteen p.c in 2015.
Girls within the Fundamental Occasion
The 2023 Fundamental Occasion included an all-time excessive of 395 girls. This report is more likely to fall provided that Fundamental Occasion attendance rises, however perhaps Foxen’s deep run final 12 months was inspiring? The associated report is most ladies cashing (47, additionally in 2023).
Greatest Fundamental Occasions, Girls
Gamers / Cashes in One Yr
Final 12 months set information with 455,867 gamers and 461,319 entries (5,452 rebuys) throughout all tournaments. A rise within the variety of occasions might topple this report once more, and the WSOP has a distant shot at going over half 1,000,000 entries for the primary time ,as a 9% enhance would accomplish that. If this report falls, so will final 12 months’s information of $772,837,284 paid out to 62,165 cashers.
Greatest WSOP Years by Entries
Gamers in a Event
The 2024 On-line $215 Thriller Hundreds of thousands had a report 52,452 entries. This report has fallen in three consecutive years, with 51,003 gamers within the 2022 $210 Million Greenback Thriller Bounty and 51,211 within the 2023 $210 Thriller Hundreds of thousands. The identical 2024 occasion set a report with 4,800 gamers paid, one other breakable report. Area sizes will probably be down, however on-line most likely has a greater likelihood of a brand new report than reside (eighth within the desk under with 28,371 entries for the 2019 $500 Huge 50).
Greatest Event Fields
NOTE: As for particular tournaments breaking their very own information for many gamers, the 4 foremost non-open tournaments are all nice candidates. The previous On line casino Staff occasion will undoubtedly high the 1,232 gamers it had in 2006. After a near-record 1,189 entries final 12 months (with a report 179 paid), the WSOP broadened the match to be the $500 Trade Staff occasion, with apparently no enforcement on who’s eligible. The $1,000 Girls Championship (1,295 gamers in 2023), $1,000 Seniors (8,180 in 2023), and $1,000 Tremendous Seniors (3,362 final 12 months for a 3rd straight report) might additionally simply set new marks.
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Gamers in a Stay Non-Maintain ‘Em Event
This report fell in each 2023 (3,200 entries in $600 Pot-Restrict Omaha Deepstack 8-Max) and 2024 (4,280 entries in $1,000 Thriller Bounty Pot-Restrict Omaha) however continues to be an underdog to be damaged this 12 months (see above).
Greatest Stay Non-Maintain ‘Em Event Fields
Uncertain to Occur (10-30%)
A number of Bracelet Winners in One Yr
A report 13 gamers received a number of bracelets in 2021. The final three years have seen 8, 12, and 9, so a couple of extra occasions mixed with smaller fields might assist break this report.
Most A number of Bracelet Winners in One Yr
Multi-Winners Yr
Open Bracelets Gained in One Yr by Girls
The web 12 months of 2020 noticed a report 4 girls win open occasions — Kristen Bicknell, Nahrain Tamero, Thi Truong, and Melika Razavi. Final 12 months tied the report (Vivian Saliba, Maria Konnikova, Kristen Foxen, and Michele Lawson). All of those wins have been on-line aside from Saliba’s, which was at WSOP Europe. However in between these two years, girls tallied only one, zero, and two bracelets, placing the over-under at 2.5 open bracelets.
Most Feminine Open Bracelet Winners
Cash Gained in One Yr, Girls
Liv Boeree collected $2,809,952 in 2024. She amassed most of these winnings with a fourth place within the Paradise Island $25,000 Fundamental Occasion, whereas fifth place within the Fundamental Occasion paid $3 million final 12 months, so this report alongside along with her decade ($2,828,863) and profession ($3,223,192) information are more likely to fall than the general report for cash received in a single 12 months (see under).
Most Cash Gained in One Yr, Girls
Very Unlikely to Occur (<10%)
Bracelets in a Profession, Girls
Kristen Foxen has 5 bracelets, two greater than Vanessa Selbst, Barbara Enright, and Nani Dollison. Whereas Selbst is definitely able to profitable three bracelets in a single 12 months, she’d have to come back out of retirement to do it. Foxen’s pop equal is Mariah Carey, whose 19 number-one songs are 5 greater than Rihanna. The Mimi of poker additionally has a report 4 open bracelets; Selbst wants one to tie, which might additionally make her the primary girl to win a bracelet in three consecutive a long time.
Most Bracelets in a Profession, Girls
NOTE: The general report of 17 by Phil Hellmuth is sort of secure as Phil Ivey would wish a ridiculous six simply to tie him. Hellmuth is the Fab 4 all by himself, because the Beatles maintain the all-time report of topping the Scorching 100 20 instances.
Bracelets in One Yr
Puggy Pearson received a formidable three bracelets out of solely seven occasions in 1973. His report has since been tied by Ted Forrest (1993), Phil Hellmuth (1993), Phil Ivey (2002), Jeff Lisandro (2009), George Danzer (2014), and Scott Seiver (2024).
Who is popping 40 and hoping to get into the Corridor of Fame this 12 months? Jeff Madsen? Shannon Shorr? Chris Moorman? That motivation helped Seiver tie the report final 12 months. Because it stands, seven gamers can declare to be the Beatles, who topped the charts six instances in 1964 (and one other 5 the subsequent 12 months).
Most Bracelets in One Yr
Bracelets in One Yr, Girls
Nani Dollison is the one feminine to win two bracelets in a single 12 months. In 2001, she captured the $1,000 Girls Championship and the $2,000 Restrict Maintain’em. It is much less probably for a lady to win three bracelets than for a person to win 4, as the quantity merely is not there. Nonetheless, there’s an out of doors likelihood for the primary girl to win two open bracelets in a 12 months. For now, Dollison reigns just like the Supremes and Rihanna, who each had 4 number-one songs in a 12 months (1965 and 2010, respectively).
Bracelets in a Decade
Johnny Moss received seven bracelets within the Seventies, and Phil Ivey matched him within the 2000s. Jeremy Ausmus leads the 2020s with 5 bracelets and would nab this report by tying the report of three bracelets in a single 12 months to grow to be the brand new Beatles, who had 18 #1 songs within the Sixties.
Most Bracelets in a Decade
Cash Gained in One Yr
Antonio Esfandiari received an all-time greatest $18,749,468 in 2012. Because the demise of the Huge One for One Drop, the place the Magician earned a report $18,346,673, it has been unimaginable for somebody to interrupt his occasion report and extremely onerous to beat his single-year report, probably requiring two enormous scores.
Most Cash Gained in One Yr
Fundamental Occasion End, Girls
Barbara Enright took a nasty beat to exit in fifth place within the 1995 Fundamental Occasion. Many poker followers have been disillusioned when Kristen Foxen fell in need of the ultimate desk final 12 months, however many ladies are able to making a deep run. It will occur eventually, so why not this 12 months, concurrently breaking Foxen’s information for largest prize and p.c of the sphere survived?
Greatest Feminine Fundamental Occasion End
Newest Day Main the Fundamental Occasion by a Girl
Jessica Cai was the chip chief after Day 3 of the 2021 Fundamental Occasion. A girl has been the end-of-day chief three different instances. Vera Richmond led after Day 1 in 1981, Kathy Liebert after Day 2 in 2000, and Gaelle Baumann after Day 2 in 2012. That works out to about as soon as each 14 years, so it will be very thrilling however not possible {that a} girl will lead this 12 months’s Fundamental Occasion after Day 4 or later.
NOTE: Puggy Pearson initially particularly mentioned that he’d lower his throat if Richmond held on to win the 1981 Fundamental Occasion. Though he later broadened the declare to incorporate any girl, he handed away in 2006 along with his neck intact.
Wrapping Up the Forecast
The WSOP is ready for an additional improbable 12 months. Milestones shall be made, and information shall be reached. Might now we have the youngest winner ever in Rozvadov or Paradise Island (present record-holder: Annette Obrestad, at some point shy of her nineteenth birthday in 2007)? Can somebody defy Father Time and grow to be the oldest bracelet winner ever (present record-holder: Farhintaj Bonyadi, 83) or the oldest open bracelet winner (present record-holder: Johnny Moss, 13 days in need of turning 81)?
Possibly somebody with a two-letter first identify and two-letter final identify will win a bracelet, evicting Ben Yu, Pei Li, Tu Dao, Yue Du, and Zhi Wu from the shortest-named bracelet winners checklist? Or on the flip facet, somebody might high the 31 letters (together with areas) of the longest-named winner, Johan Buchtrup Schultz-Pedersen.
One thing will occur that we by no means anticipated, and though I am extra of a researcher than a gambler, I will be enjoying in and watching this 12 months’s WSOP as I am nonetheless gaga for poker. Because the Eagles sang, “You possibly can take a look at any time you want, however you may by no means depart.”
Good luck to everybody enjoying. To these of you watching at house, benefit from the longest-running actuality present on TV!
Robert Jen
