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Also - if I recall correctly...Hellmuth mentioned in one his books that there was some big buy-in tournament at the Bike in 2000 or 2001 (pre TV boom) that got 12 players or something like that and then 2 or 3 years later that exact same tournament got 500 players.

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I believe he was referring to the Legends of Poker Main Event. There were 35 entrants in 2001, and about 700 this year--a 20-fold increase.

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The WPT has an event at the Bellagio coming up in October that runs right around the same time of the WSOPC in Indiana. I wouldn't be too surprised if that event draws even less than this one.

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See, I expected THAT one to get a bitty field. Before this week, I would've said 75-100 players, but if it's across the WPT, it might not fill four tables, or even three.