In 2022, the World Series of Poker released its summer schedule on February 23. There were a lot of moving pieces last year, as it was the first year at the new location, managing two sets of ballrooms in two casinos and figuring out the logistics of it all.
This year, instead of starting from scratch, WSOP executives already know what they’re working with. So, they focused on the schedule earlier, resulting in the ability to release the full 2023 WSOP summer schedule on February 2. And by doing so, they pleased the players, giving them more time to plan and less time to ask Kevin Mathers, “When is the schedule coming out?”
When and Where
The first order of business is the basics. The 2023 World Series of Poker will again take place on the Las Vegas Strip, again at two Caesars properties connected by an indoor walkway. Paris Las Vegas is one of them, and what was Bally’s is now Horseshoe Las Vegas, and that is the other casino.
Players and poker fans will find new restaurants at the new Horseshoe, as well as a new poker room. And that poker room now houses the WSOP Poker Hall of Fame exhibit, one that had been absent since it disappeared from Binion’s in Downtown Las Vegas several years prior. It is a good way to connect poker players and fans with more than 50 years of WSOP history.
The full WSOP summer series in Las Vegas will begin on May 30 and run through July 18.
The series consists of 95 bracelet tournaments that will play out live. That includes the WSOP Tournament of Champions, which will award a bracelet. That event is a freeroll for all players who won a WSOP bracelet or Circuit ring since the mid-July 2022 WSOP. They will all play for a $1M prize pool. And those who win in the summer of 2023 will win spots in the next year’s TOC.
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CBS Sports will be the WSOP’s broadcast partner again, and there will be daily streaming of WSOP events on PokerGO. They will specifically produce 18 bracelet events, as well as the Main Event for 15 extra hours of coverage.
The Schedule
The WSOP website offers the full schedule, complete with links to each event’s structure sheet.
Another version of it is right here:
Event
Dates
Buy-in
Tournament Description
Reentry?
Chips
1
May 30-31
$500
NLHE Casino Employees
1
25,000
2
May 30-Jun 1
$25,000
NLHE 6-Handed High Roller
1
150,000
3
May 31-Jun 5
$1,000
NLHE Mystery Millions (4 flights / Day 1 payouts / Day 2 bounties / $1M top bounty / 1st = $1M GTD)
1/flight
40,000
4
May 31-Jun 2
$0
Tournament of Champions (freeroll)
n/a
30,000
5
May 31-Jun 2
$1,500
Dealers Choice (20 games)
1
25,000
6
Jun 1-2
$5,000
Mixed 8-Handed NLHE/PLO
2
50,000
7
Jun 1-3
$1,500
Limit Hold'em 8-Handed
0
25,000
8
Jun 2-4
$25,000
NLHE Heads-Up Championship (64-player max)
0
150,000
9
Jun 2-4
$1,500
Seven-Card Stud
0
25,000
10
Jun 3-5
$10,000
Dealers Choice 6-Handed Championship (20 games)
0
60,000
11
Jun 4-5
$600
NLHE Deepstack
1
30,000
12
Jun 4-6
$5,000
NLHE 8-Handed Freezeout
0
50,000
13
Jun 5-6
$600
PLO 8-Handed Deepstack
2
30,000
14
Jun 5-7
$10,000
Seven-Card Stud Championship
0
60,000
15
Jun 6-8
$1,500
NLHE 6-Handed
1
25,000
16
Jun 6-8
$25,000
NLHE 8-Handed High Roller
1
150,000
17
Jun 6-8
$1,500
Omaha-8 8-Handed
0
25,000
18
Jun 7-12
$300
NLHE Gladiators of Poker (4 flights / Day 1 payouts / $3M GTD)
As noted in the overall schedule, the WSOP Main Event will play July 3-17 with its traditional $10K buy-in and freezeout format. It will offer four starting days July 3-6, with late registration open until the start of Day 2ABC and Day 2D. On July 9, all surviving players will join together to play down to the money and onward.
They will play to the final table of nine as long as it takes on July 14. After a day off on July 15, the final table will then begin playing on July 16 and finish to find its winner on July 17.
Every year, the WSOP hopes to attract more players to the Main Event than the prior year. There have been some close calls, but no year has been able to top 2006 with its 8,773 players. The 2022 Main Event was close with 8,663, and the 2019 Main Event was just short of that number with 8,569.
The WSOP has had enough. They want a new record, and they want it this year. They are not messing around any longer.
And to get it done, the World Series of Poker brass established numerous ways to bring players to the Main Event through new online and live satellites. And they have one giant reward for one player if this year’s number sets a new record.
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Live Main Event Satellites
This is called Main Event Maynia – because it will take place in May, get it? – and will run satellites at live poker rooms across five continents. It will be a truly global effort.
At this point, the list of host properties includes:
Harrah’s Cherokee (North Carolina)Harrah’s Pompano (Florida)Horseshoe Las Vegas (Nevada)Horseshoe Tunica (Mississippi)Horseshoe St. Louis (Missouri)Horseshoe Council Bluffs (Iowa)Hard Rock Tulsa (Oklahoma)Turning Stone Casino (New York)Grand Victoria Casino (Illinois)King’s Resort (Rozvadov, Czech Republic)Club Pierre Charron (Paris, France)Deerfoot Casino (Calgary, Canada)Enjoy Casino (Punta del Este, Uruguay)Casino Es Saadi (Marrakech, Morocco)
The WSOP will announce more locations as the Maynia weekend approaches. That weekend will be May 20-21, 2023.
Each room will offer step tournaments. Players can start at just $140 and work their way to the $1,175 buy-in mega satellite. Each mega will award at least one Main Event prize package. Those packages will grant the winners a seat into the $10K buy-in Main Event and travel money, though the exact amount of the latter is not yet known.
Online Main Event Satellites in US
Of course, there will be satellites on WSOP-dot-com, the WSOP-owned online poker site that operates in Nevada, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Michigan. Players in all four states will have the chance to win seats – 112 to be exact – in the 112-Seat Sprint.
The action will start on June 25 and run through July 8. There will be at least 10 Main Event seats available to win each day throughout that period. A part of that effort will be the 25-Seat Scramble on July 2. That one will guarantee at least 25 Main Event seats.
Finally, players can start qualifying for larger satellites by playing All-In qualifiers. Those will also run June 25 through July 8, costing as little as $80 and as much as $126.
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Online Main Event Seats Abroad
For those living outside of the United States and in parts of the world that can access GGPoker, they will have the chance to win any of the 500 Main Event seats up for grabs in online poker satellites. Details about that will emerge in the coming weeks.
In addition, players who want to qualify via GGPoker within the USA can do so on the subscription site ClubGG. That site will award 100 seats to its players.
Satellite action will begin on GG in March.
Main Event for Life
The WSOP executives are so dedicated to putting the Main Event number in the history books that they are offering a reward.
If the number of players hits 8,774 or more, the WSOP will put every player’s Caesars Rewards number into a bin. (Caesars Rewards cards are required for registration.) On July 8, when registration closes and they announce the final number of entrants, they will draw one name. That person will receive a Main Event buy-in for each of the next 30 years. That will be a $10K seat every year.
This will be a non-transferrable prize, so you can’t share it with your friends. Sorry. You must use or lose that $300K prize package for yourself.
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