Today’s Donkament Sold Out Yesterday

Yet we still don\’t know how many runners are coming. We can tell you that players are showing up an hour early to take their seats — a sign they won\’t win — but the actual number … well that\’s a complicated algorithm. It has something to do with numbers of tables available based on other events … and then of course, like all things Vegas, they have to save a few seats for those extra-special VIPs.

(Not sure what they do with those seats when they aren\’t taken and there are no alternates … but bottom line is that if Barack Obama or Bono or plausibly even Jeffrey Pollack\’s brother showed up to play, they\’d find them a seat … even if it meant finding a farmboy from Iowa and tying him up in the back room until dinner break.)

The $1,500 NLH that sold out a few days ago had 2,790 players. And the Seniors Event had 2,707. So there\’s your ballpark.

UPDATE: 2,818

And to show the love because Vinny B. has us feeling snippy under his claims that we don\’t give proper props to the no-names, click below for a complete list of every single person who showed up today with $1,500 and a dream, but not necessarily a plan on how to really achieve it