WSOP 2009

The World Series of Poker recently released their Staff Resource Guide for 2009.

63,513 players are expected to participate in the 2009 World Series of Poker (up from 58,809 last year). These numbers seem pretty optimistic, given the current state of the global economy. As a matter of fact, the entire guide is littered with some pretty optimistic projections.

The projection for the main event is 7,323 entrants, which would considerably higher than the 6,844 entrants seen in last year's main event.

Most of the events that were around last year are expected to have more players - only a couple are expected to have less than last year.

Interesting is the rule about "Logos". No more than 3 players at a televised final or feature table can don the same sponsor logo. Very strange rule...

Good luck to all players...