We’ve offered advice here before in PokerNews Strategy about how to survive large-field multi-table tournaments, both live and online. Of course when it comes to live events, there’s never been anything like the 2015 World Series of Poker $565 No-Limit Hold’em Colossus (Event #5) before.
With 22,374 total entries, the Colossus featured more than two-and-a-half times the previous high at the WSOP (8,773 for the 2006 WSOP Main Event), and as Mickey Doft explained in “How Does the WSOP Colossus Rank Amongst Poker's Largest Live Events?