World Series of Poker Returns to Live Events in 2021 with a Fall Series, Live Main Event

It may follow scheduled for later than usual this year, but officials with the World Series of Poker proclaimed this week they be after to restart a full, live-action tourney schedule this year.

The total slate of events testament be announced later this summer, but the world-class tournaments testament scratch line on Sept. 30 at the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino inwards Las Vegas. In a release, officials said the chess opening weekend of events is expected to include a charity event for frontline health care workers.

A $25,000 H.O.R.S.E tournament and a $5 trillion guaranteed No-Limit Hold’em event billed as “The Reunion” are also inward the works for the curtain raising weekend.

This year, to a greater extent than ever, we squeeze our role at the WSOP to deliver memorable experiences and get this community of interests of stove poker lovers rear together,” said WSOP Executive Director Ty Jimmy Stewart in a release. “In 2021, the theme is, have vaccinated and let rear to Vegas.”

With 6 months until the events start, officials said they will piece of work with gaming regulators to ascertain what COVID-19 protocols will be inwards set for the WSOP.

The WSOP is expected to destination on Nov. 23.

Tournament organizers won’t admit registrations until the summertime as events noneffervescent must be sanctioned by Nevada regulators. However, the Rio is already taking way reservations already for players.

WSOP Main Event to Start Nov. 4

The Main Event will live section of the live action as well. Play in the $10,000 No-Limit Hold’em star is scheduled to lead off on Nov. 4, with the first off iv years scheduled as starting days. Those who start on Nov. 4 or 5 and live will persist in localize on Nov. 8. Those who are ease around after starting on either Nov. 6 or 7 testament have got their arcsecond mean solar day on rounds on Nov. 9.

The fields will combine starting Nov. 10.

Last year, the WSOP held the Main Event inwards a hybrid format because of the pandemic. There were ii legs, an International leg and another inward the US. Initial caper in from each one took put online, with net tables inwards both playing face-to-face. The winners of the European and American legs facing sour inward a head-to-head check for the coveted bracelet.

Damian Salas of genus Argentina won the bracelet lacing US victor Joseph Hebert. He qualified through a $300 planet and wound upwards winning to a greater extent than $2.5 million.

Online Poker Tournaments Slated for Summer

While there are unrecorded events planned for the fall, organizers are expecting to theater a good slate of online poker game tournaments as swell o'er the summer.

Organizers testament liberate to a greater extent info well-nigh the online tournaments at WSOP.com starting on Apr 15.

Last year, thanks to the pandemic, WSOP.com held 31 online tournaments, which doled out almost $27 jillion inwards hard currency prizes. That’s an American book for online poker.

WSOP.com also partnered with GGPoker to contain an online Main Event, which stony-broke a humanity enter for the largest online fire hook tournament ever so as it paid come out $27.5 billion inward hard cash prizes. The global series, which comprised of 45 events, awarded nearly $150 zillion inwards cash.