The daily event schedule for the 2022 World Series of Poker (WSOP) has been announced, with the tournament moving to its original home on the Las Vegas Strip
The daily event schedule for the 2022 World Series of Poker (WSOP) has been announced, with the tournament moving to its pilot place on the Las Vegas Strip.
Held every twelvemonth since 1970, the event has been sponsored past Caesars Entertainment since 2004 and owned past the manipulator since 2020.
This year’s tourney testament commence on 31 May at Bally’s Hotel & Casino (soon to live rebranded as Horseshoe) and Paris Hotel & Casino, running until 20 July. The dual-venue go up testament ensue inwards the largest tourney mental ability inward its history, with 600 fire hook tables and 200,000 lame feet of usable gaming space.
The tourney had antecedently been held at the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino for 17 years, situated a stat mi or so away the Strip.
Ty Stewart, Executive Director, WSOP, commented: “This twelvemonth is specially historical for the WSOP with its move to the bosom of the Las Vegas Strip and debut in the best facilities we've of all time had.
“We're ready to welcome players from all o'er the reality to our housewarming political party at Bally's, soon-to-be Horseshoe, and Paris. The schedule is jam-packed with first-class events and we expect this to be the biggest and most awaited(p) WSOP yet.”
Noteworthy elements of the tourney include the $10,000 No-Limit Hold'em World Championship, ‘The Housewarming’ chess opening weekend event with a treasure pocket billiards of $5m, the $1,000 Buy-In Million Dollar H.M.S. Bounty and the young Tournament of Champions.
The tourney will once more partner with CBS Sports to programme live footage of the tournament, with a minimum of 18 events televised across the three-week period.
Budding contestants are beingness advised that, piece they doh not need to ply their Covid-19 vaccination status to enter, they will follow required to follow with local Battle Born State guidelines.
Entrants canful either register online or in-person, with benefits such as discounted rooms at the II resorts on offer, as wellspring as other benefits associated with the Caesars Rewards trueness scheme.