Days a b and c chalked up 5,182 entries, which alone would have been the 13th largest Main Event in history, but a bumper Day 1d knocked it out of the park with an incredible turnout of 4,553.
The numbers are in on the third largest Main Event field ever!
9,735 entries built a prizepool of $90,535,500.
1,461 players will make the money.
The min-cash comes in at $15,000 and 9 players will go home with at least $1,000,000!1st place: $10,000,000
2nd: $6,000,000
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At the end of the day, 2,133 players survived to bag up a stack for Day 3, joining the 1,320 who still had chips.
San Kim led the way at the end of play, bagging up 799,000 chips to leave him in second place overall behind Ukraine’s Oleksii Kravchuk who has a monster stack of 937,500 chips.
Plenty of big names made it through to Day 3, but, surprisingly, from the seven former champions who started Day 2, only last year’s champion Jonathan Tamayo will be returning to the playing hall.
Out of all of the well-known faces, Josh Arieh is doing the best with 448,500 chips with Ike Haxton chasing him down with 317,500.
Dan “Jungleman” Cates is hanging in there with 231,500 and so is online MTT crusher Patrick Leonard with 209,000.
Seven-time bracelet winner Brian Rast still has some work to do with only 112,500 chips left in his stack, but fresh from his $10,000 Razz Championship victory last week he’ll still be confident of getting some kind of a result.
And finally, Jennifer Harman is making a rare appearance at the tables. It’s not very often we see Harman playing these days but she still has 56,000 chips to work with and anything’s possible.
Event #81: $10,000 WSOP Main Event World Championship Day 2d Top Ten Chip Counts
| Place | Player | Country | Chip Count | Big Blinds |
| 1 | San Kim | United States | 799,000 | 320 |
| 2 | Fernando Rodriguez | United States | 749,000 | 300 |
| 3 | Romain Locquet | France | 673,500 | 269 |
| 4 | Nazar Buhaiov | Ukraine | 633,500 | 253 |
| 6 | Ibrahim Senoussi | France | 625,000 | 250 |
| 5 | Daniyal Gheba | United States | 625,000 | 250 |
| 7 | Kevin Javier | Canada | 620,000 | 248 |
| 8 | Kotaro Shoda | Japan | 619,500 | 248 |
| 9 | Kyle Grupp | United States | 618,000 | 247 |
| 10 | Riva Arthur | United States | 607,000 | 243 |
Kristen Foxen Eliminated from WSOP 2025 Main Event
Poker’s leading lady Kristen Foxen will not be returning to the playing hall for Day 3 of the Main Event. The Canadian didn’t make it to the end of the first level yesterday, ending her run in a classic flip situation.
A stack of 88,800 to start the day was more than enough, but when Foxen picked up pocket queens against an opponent who was determined to stack off with ace-king, there was no turning back.
Last year saw Foxen end her run in 13th place but we all expected her to go even further. She is quite clearly the top performing female player in the world right now and we expect even bigger and better things for her in the future.
Event #81: $10,000 WSOP Main Event World Championship Day 3 Starting Top Ten Chip Counts
| Place | Player | Country | Chip Count | Big Blinds |
| 1 | Oleksii Kravchuk | Ukraine | 937,500 | 375 |
| 2 | San Kim | United States | 799,000 | 320 |
| 3 | Randall Lack | United States | 762,500 | 305 |
| 4 | Fernando Rodriguez | United States | 749,000 | 300 |
| 5 | Nicholas Bond | United States | 724,500 | 290 |
| 6 | David Polop | Spain | 704,000 | 282 |
| 7 | Romain Locquet | France | 673,500 | 269 |
| 8 | Ryuta Nakai | Japan | 648,000 | 259 |
| 9 | Thomas Eychenne | France | 644,000 | 258 |
| 10 | Nazar Buhaiov | Ukraine | 633,500 | 253 |
