Cika wannan jumla: A shekara ta 2003, akwai masu shiga 839 a cikin babban taron WSOP, kuma sun ninka wannan adadin a shekara ta 2004. Da coronation na 2004 WSOP zakara, Greg "Fossilman" Raymer, wani lamban kira lauya daga Connecticut, kara fueled da shahararsa na taron tsakanin mai son (kuma musamman da Internet) 'yan wasan. A cikin babban taron na shekara ta 2005, masu shiga 5,619 da ba a taɓa gani ba sun yi gasa don kyautar farko ta $ 7,500,000. Wanda ya yi nasara, Joe Hachem na Australiya, ɗan wasa ne mai ƙwarewa. Wannan ci gaba ya ci gaba a cikin
2006, tare da masu shiga 8,773 da kyautar farko na $ 12,000,000 (wanda Jamie Gold ya lashe).