Players were permitted to buy in on Day 2, which is why the final numbers were not released until last night. Okay, so this year's Main Event had four starting flights and two Day 2s. Yep, first place in the 2022 World Series of Poker Main Event will earn $10 million in the first year that the WSOP migrated away from the Rio to its new home on the Strip splitting between Paris and Bally's. $10 million is a huge payday any way you cut it, especially for a $10,000 investment. That's a boatload of cash in play in Las Vegas at the most prestigious poker tournament in the world.
