Registration Filling Up?

[PickyTooth]

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They said the cap might be 9100, but they will try to accomidate everyone.

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They aren't going to be anywhere near that cap.

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Wanna bet ? someone set the over under

[Jourdain]

According to a guy in a newsgroup:

8221 is the latest number of entrants.

[NoSoup4U]

My friend just signed up as an alternate a few minutes ago and was told they were over 8,300 now.

[Chapdoggy]

This is from Harrah's press release last night - whether or not it is true remains to be seen

As of 11 p.m. Thursday night, close to 8,000 players had entered. According to a shift manager in the Amazon room, where this year’s WSOP events are taking place, the Rio has enough room for 8,800 people. There’s a good chance they’ll approach that. It seems like the line to the registration cage has been perpetually long all day, and there’s no sign of it ending.

[DJE]

I was just down there and one woman was actually turning people away, saying they were not taking anymore alternates but then I heard another guy telling people they were just shutting the registration down temporarily while they prepped the room (all the doors were locked) so I don't know if the people that work there even know what is going on right now.

[uclabruinz]

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so I don't know if the people that work there even know what is going on right now.

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Standard.

[DonT77]

From CardPlayer-


Fri Jul 28 10:35:00 PDT 2006
The Main Event Has Arrived
The 2006 World Seris of Poker Main Event is now upon us!

There are officially at least 8,532 participants, and the word on the street is that there will be up to 500 alternates per day. We will keep you updated as this situation develops.

[MicroBob]

Wow!!!!

Way more than I was originally predicting.

Makes last year's 5,600 look like diddly-squat.


Really makes seeing those 2003 Chris Moneymaker re-runs look weird.
They had 849 players in that one I believe. And Lon and Nom make a couple of references to how INCREDIBLE it is that they had 800+ players in a single $10k event.

My how times have changed.
Stars sent around 1,500 players or so themselves this year.

[gwhiz_612]

Are there satellites still available? Format?

[fsuplayer]

739 entries in 2004.