You’ll notice a poll on the righthand sidebar inquiring what you think will be the bought-in attendance for the 2008 main event. Though you really haven’t heard too many estimates thrown out there compared to years past, if this were an Ask the Audience question on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, it wouldn’t get more clear-cut that that — just about everybody thinks participation growth will be relatively flat this year — either a little bigger or a little smaller than last year’s tourney.

Meanwhile. a few dozen events earlier, there were a record-setting 3,929 entrants in event #2 — a $1,500 NLH tourney that has turned out to be the largest prelim field in WSOP history. Interesting to realize how much bigger that is than even the number playing in the main event in 2005 (2.576).

Click below to see the payout structure for this monster field as they whittle their way into the money today:

1 $831,279.00
2 $520,219.00
3 $388,287.00
4 $327,148.00
5 $268,154.00
6 $211,842.00
7 $158,211.00
8 $117,988.00
9 $83,128.00
10 $52,022.00
11 $52,022.00
12 $52,022.00
13 $41,296.00
14 $41,296.00
15 $41,296.00
16 $30,570.00
17 $30,570.00
18 $30,570.00
19 $24,134.00
20 $24,134.00
21 $24,134.00
22 $24,134.00
23 $24,134.00
24 $24,134.00
25 $24,134.00
26 $24,134.00
27 $24,134.00
28 $18,771.00
29 $18,771.00
30 $18,771.00
31 $18,771.00
32 $18,771.00
33 $18,771.00
34 $18,771.00
35 $18,771.00
36 $18,771.00
37 $14,480.00
38 $14,480.00
39 $14,480.00
40 $14,480.00
41 $14,480.00
42 $14,480.00
43 $14,480.00
44 $14,480.00
45 $14,480.00
46 $12,871.00
47 $12,871.00
48 $12,871.00
49 $12,871.00
50 $12,871.00
51 $12,871.00
52 $12,871.00
53 $12,871.00
54 $12,871.00
55 $11,262.00
56 $11,262.00
57 $11,262.00
58 $11,262.00
59 $11,262.00
60 $11,262.00
61 $11,262.00
62 $11,262.00
63 $11,262.00
64 $9,654.00
65 $9,654.00
66 $9,654.00
67 $9,654.00
68 $9,654.00
69 $9,654.00
70 $9,654.00
71 $9,654.00
72 $9,654.00
73 $8,045.00
74 $8,045.00
75 $8,045.00
76 $8,045.00
77 $8,045.00
78 $8,045.00
79 $8,045.00
80 $8,045.00
81 $8,045.00
82 $6,972.00
83 $6,972.00
84 $6,972.00
85 $6,972.00
86 $6,972.00
87 $6,972.00
88 $6,972.00
89 $6,972.00
90 $6,972.00
91 $5,899.00
92 $5,899.00
93 $5,899.00
94 $5,899.00
95 $5,899.00
96 $5,899.00
97 $5,899.00
98 $5,899.00
99 $5,899.00
100 $4,827.00
101 $4,827.00
102 $4,827.00
103 $4,827.00
104 $4,827.00
105 $4,827.00
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