Popularity of WSOP

[TrainHardDieHard]

I havent been following the # of entrants in this year's WSOP or last year's, but for the events so far, as there generally been an increase in the # of entrants ?

Basically im just trying to figure out if the decline in the online poker popularity has any effect on the # of entrants in the WSOP for this year.

Thanks.

[badatmath]

I'm not sure about most of the events, but the 1st no limit event of the Series this year had the most entrants of any non-main event ever.

[pig4bill]

These smaller events didn't get huge numbers of online qualifiers in the past anyway, so it will be hard to judge until the ME.

[guess who]

here is an overview made by an 2p2 user:
http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=pf1C6H1QXg83lBQjKhepWOw&gid=1