'I've been looking forward to seeing a larger field in the main event since I was lucky enough to play in my first that happened to have the largest field,' Gold told PokerNews. It may come as a bit of a surprise, but Gold was rooting for the record to not only be broken, but to be 'smashed.' And he thought it should have been years ago.
In 2006, during the height of the poker boom, he defeated a massive field en route to a $12 million payday, also the largest cash in any WSOP event not named the $1 million Big One for One Drop. Jamie Gold, who didn't compete in the 2022 Main Event, can still stake his claim to having won the largest Main Event of all-time.
