WSOP by The Numbers

The 2011 World Series of Poker is full of facts, figures, stats and records. With so many numbers being crunched day in and day out, sometimes it is tough to see what they all add up to. That is why each day BLUFF brings you some of the more interesting numbers related to the news of the day. Some are factual, some are fun, some are both. Here is the WSOP by the numbers:

1 Percentage of the total chips in play in possession of chip leader, Manoj Viswanathan. He was the only player to finish with more than two million chips, bagging up 2,115,000.

2 Number of big blinds Daniel Negreanu had left in his stack at his low point on Day 4. He rallied, finishing the day above average with 619,000 (roughly 62 big blinds).

3 Number of 2011 WSOP bracelet winners remaining in the field. Ben Lamb and Tyler Bonkowski picked up bracelets at the Rio this summer, while Sam Barnhart, who finished the day second in chips, picked up his bracelet at the Caesars Palace WSOPC National Championship shortly before the WSOP began.

5 Number of hands of hand-for-hand play on the money bubble. Those hands took 46 minutes to play out. After forty minutes, Reza Kashani was eliminated, but he had to sweat the action for six more minutes to confirm no one else busted on the same hand.

13 Approximate number of women who made the money in the WSOP Main Event. Though women comprised 3.5% of the field, that number means only 1.9% of the players who made the money in the event are female. With 378 players remaining, there are six women left in the field, including Amanda Musumeci, who finished the day with over a million chips.

29 Consecutive years of WSOP cashes for Berry Johnston. His streak appears to be over though. Johnston was one of three past Main Event winners to return for Day 3 action. Both Phil Hellmuth and Johnston missed the money, while Robert Varkonyi cashed, finishing in 514th place.

378 Number of players returning for Day 3 action. That number represents only 5% of the total field, but, according to the schedule it will take four days to get from 378 down to the final nine–the same number of days it took to eliminate the other 95% of the field.

52,000 Number of chips in the shortest stack in the field. Sergey Altbregin finished the day with not much more than starting stack. He will have five big blinds when Day 5 play begins. There are nine players who finished with less than 100,000 chips, putting them in what many believe to be the critical zone of ten big blinds or less.

1,097,000 Combined chip count of poker couple David Sands and Erika Moutinho. Both are still alive in the Main Event field and, at the moment, it is Moutinho who is outperforming her more experienced counterpart. She ended the day with 640,000, while Sands bagged up 457,000. This is Moutinho’s first-ever $10,000 buy-in event, while Sands has been a regular on the poker circuit for a couple of years.