As we mentioned this morning, the 2008 WSOP has been running smoothly and as if Harrah's PR whiz Nolan Dalla had read our post, the WSOP communications machine sent out a press release with a bunch of figures, numbers and highlights from the first half of the 2008 WSOP. This is where we pick the most interesting ones and make them a litle more palatabe, so here we go. So far (well, as of earlier this afternoon), there have been 24,642 total entrants with 821 average entrants per event. There has been $59,117,189 in total prize money awarded with average prizepool of $1,970,573 per event, which generated and average first-place prize of $439,545 ...
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