The $10,400 buy-in No-limit Hold’em event featured a $15 million guarantee when it premiered last year. The WPT World Championship in December at Wynn Las Vegas will feature a record $40 million guaranteed prize pool, it was announced Thursday.
It’s going much bigger for this year’s event. The World Poker Tour offered one of the largest guaranteed prize pools in poker history last year. (Erik Verduzco / Las Vegas Review-Journal) Eliot Hudon poses for a photo after his win in the final table of the World Poker Tour World Championship at the Wynn hotel-casino in Las Vegas, Tuesday, Dec.