- Source: List of largest poker tournaments in history (by prize pool)
For the last several years, the largest tournament in the world has been the World Series of Poker Main Event. With the exception of 1992, the US$10,000 buy-in tournament increased in prize pool year-over-year from its start in 1970 until 2007 (the latter a result of the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006, which reduced the number of players winning their seats via online play).
The first tournament to reach a million dollar prize pool was the 1983 WSOP Main Event. The WSOP Main Event of 2004 had the first prize pool of above $10,000,000.
The largest non Hold'em Tournament has been the 2008 WSOP $50K HORSE with a prize pool of $7,104,000 and the first prize of $1,989,120 going to Scotty Nguyen.
Below are the largest poker tournaments with respect to the prize pool in United States dollars and not number of entrants. This list includes live and online poker.
Currently, 19 of the 21 largest prize pools in history have been WSOP Main Events. Other two tournment to complete this TOP 21 is Triton Super High Roller Series - Triton Million (2019).
All of the 64 richest tournaments to date were played in No Limit Hold'em with more than $15,000,000 prize pool or player prize.
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- List of largest poker tournaments in history (by prize pool)
- Poker tournament
- PokerStars
- World Series of Poker
- World Poker Tour
- 2024 World Series of Poker
- Triton Poker Series
- Index of poker articles
- World Series of Poker Europe
- Online poker
