Overview
- Late registration closed with 9,208 entrants, producing an $85,634,400 prize pool and a $10,000,000 first prize that will be paid to the champion.
- Roughly 819–820 players used Day‑2D late registration, including high‑profile names such as Phil Ivey, Liv Boeree and Patrick Leonard, and late entrants started with shorter stacks that reshaped early chip distributions.
- Day 3 combined the four Day‑1 flights and both Day‑2 sessions, trimming the field from 3,294 at the start of the day to 1,389 at the end and leaving seven eliminations before the 1,382 in‑the‑money positions when Day 4 resumed.
- Sasha Liu, a late registrant, held the overnight chip lead with 2,364,000 chips while defending champion Michael Mizrachi remained in contention with roughly 615,000 chips after televised action.
- The WSOP published the payout sheet guaranteeing a $15,000 minimum cash and at least $1 million for each of the final nine, and the final table is scheduled for Aug. 3–5 with coverage on ESPN2 and ESPN.