Day 1C of the 2017 World Series of Poker was one for the history books with 4,262 players playing, the largest starting field since going to multiple days. It also gave us the first 7,000+ player field since 2010 and only the third one ever.

DAY 1C FIELD SIZES
Over the last five years, the Day 1C field size has grown each year. Sunday’s 4,262 beat out the 2016 field by just 22 players but actually represented a smaller percentage of the overall field.

DAY 1C SURVIVORS
With a bigger field came more survivors moving forward on Monday. Not only was it more players, but a higher percentage of players (77.43%) managed to make it through the day than any other starting day in WSOP history. When players started with just 30,000 chips, the highest percentage moving forward was 69.32%.

DAY 1C BUSTOUT RATE
This stat really only gets relevant after all players are in the same field. On Day 1A there was one bustout ever 2:42. That number dropped to 1:09 on Day 1B and yesterday one player saw their Main Event run end every 36 seconds.

DAY 1C CHIPLEADERS
Jerome Brion made the most of his Day 1C, bagging up 257,900 chips, the most of any player. Compare his stack to last year’s chipleader though, and it pales in comparison. Timothy Sheehan wound up with 394,100.

DAY 1C AVERAGE STACK
There were 1,385 players who not only survived Day 1C, but ended up with an average stack or better. That number is lower than 2016 when 1,401 managed to pull it off.

DAY 1C DOUBLE AVERAGE STACK
With such a massive field comes the opportunity for players to accumulate big stacks. That’s exactly what happened on Monday with 211 players ending the day with 129,152 or more.