It started out as a part of a larger tournament series. Originally, the tournament was simply the No Limit Hold’em Championship, the pinnacle of the ARIA Poker Classic’s 2022 summer schedule. It was a $3,500 buy-in with a $1M guarantee. Solid but standard. All became clearer in early May when
The World Series of Poker is open to players from around the world. Few are barred from participating, as only a few people have ever been banned from Caesars Entertainment properties. Poker players accused of cheating in one venue are unlikely to be barred from participating in the WSOP unless
The biggest tournament of the 2022 World Series of Poker is in the history books. It will forever be known as the market for this year’s series, the one that set the barometer for the first WSOP in its new Paris-Bally’s home. And it will be known for encouraging more
With everything back on track this year, the World Series of Poker is underway, and it is time to start thinking of nominees for the WSOP Poker Hall of Fame. The process is now open and will be open through June 19. Nomination Process This week, the World Series of
If it’s not one thing, it’s another. That’s a good thing at the World Series of Poker when referencing all of the poker action. After four flights for the Housewarming tournament, that finally settled into a Day 2 to begin the playdown. But as that madness calmed down a bit,
The word of the day yesterday was wow. I said it and heard it everywhere in reference to the ever-increasing numbers of entries in Event 5, better known as the Housewarming. By the end of Day 1C (the third of four flights on Saturday), there were already nearly 13K entries
The fields are huge. Players are coming out in droves to play the 2022 World Series of Poker. While several tournaments have already exceeded their past years’ fields, the Housewarming Event of this year tells the story in just one tournament. The Housewarming is the equivalent of tournaments like the
On Day 4 of the 2022 World Series of Poker, two players won WSOP gold bracelets. For each of them, it was the fourth career bracelet…just like David Peters won his fourth bracelet the day before. Four! This appears to be a good sign for any player with three bracelets
The 2022 World Series of Poker officially began on Tuesday, May 31. But on Thursday, June 2, it got real. Event 5 is the Housewarming event, the one to welcome everyone to the new venue with a $500 buy-in and a $5M guarantee. And the players came out in droves
That didn’t take long. There has been talk of an increasing number of women in poker. Cash games are tough to monitor, and few tournament operators track demographics. But people who pay attention to such things have noticed. Women’s groups like the Fantastic Ladies in Poker, Globetrotting Poker Ladies, the
Day 1 of the 2022 World Series of Poker is in the books! If this is any indication of what to expect for the entirety of the 2022 WSOP, it’s going to be big. Many people have predicted that this series could be big and full of new records, but
This morning, May 31, the 2022 World Series of Poker got underway in Las Vegas. The 2022 WSOP is the first one since 2019 that is running per tradition – from May 31 to mid-July and without vaccination or mask requirements. That’s not to say this is a typical WSOP.
