In spite of all the younguns picking up the top World Series of Poker title of Main Event champ year after year lately, it seems senior citizens are getting their poker games on too, as evidenced by this year’s largest player pool ever at a WSOP Seniors event.

The event is the $1,000 Seniors’ No Limit Championship, and for the 2010 WSOP it was event #34. Minimum age to enter is 50. The oldest player registered this year was 92.

The record set in 2008 was 2,218 players. Then in 2009 it was beaten with a 2,707 players, a 22% increase. And this year, the trend continues, with 3,148 players registering for the seniors event, this time a 16% increase over the previous year.

This event this year also broke the record for the largest player field ever to sit down in a single day during a World Series of Poker.