So it Is!
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We posted the number of Day 1b runners as 1,489, but we weren't entirely sure that was the official, official number. These things have a way of being sneaky sometimes, you know. In any event, a nice chat with the tournament staff has finally locked it up at 1,489, honest and verified.
That puts the combined field from the first half of Day 1 at 2,614 players. That's a significant increase over last year's 1,989 runners by this point, a bit more than 30% in fact. Don't read too much into that, though; the WSOP powers-that-be have been fiddling with opening and closing registration for Day 1d -- the perennial favorite day to play -- to try and balance the numbers across the starting days a bit better and thus avoid the lockout fiasco of last year's Main Event.