There was at least one player in the field of the first of six starting flights for the 2016 World Series of Poker's $565 Colossus II on Thursday that was secretly hoping the event would not break the field size record it set last year.
However, Cord Garcia, who won the inaugural Colossus at the 2015 WSOP for $638,880, outlasting a record 22,374 entries, really can see it from two different perspectives.
"Yes, I'm anti-sweating the player field," he told PokerNews with a smile. "For the good of the game, I would rather see it grow and get bigger, but for my own selfish reasons, I really would rather keep the record (for winning the biggest live poker tournament in history) for as long as I can.