The summer of poker in Las Vegas is taking shape.
Technically, the World Series of Poker set the parameters for the 2022 summer. Poker players and fans had the core dates for their schedules before this year even started – May 31 through July 19 – but a late-February announcement made it clearer. The 2022 WSOP would run May 31 to July 20 (an extra day!). Then, it would be up to other poker rooms in Las Vegas to set their summer schedules.
The Wynn Las Vegas is the first to release its summer poker tournament series schedule to play against or alongside (depends on one’s perspective) the WSOP.
Wynn Summer Classic
The Wynn on the Las Vegas Strip has turned its poker room into one of the most popular in Sin City. The past few years have shown its competitiveness and resiliency. And its growth has been undeniable.
The 2019 Wynn Summer Classic offered 42 events from May 30 to July 16 with $11.25M in guarantees. Due to its increasing popularity, the Wynn’s poker room was ready to step it up in 2020…until the pandemic. For all intents and purposes, let’s set aside 2020 altogether. But when live poker began to make a strong comeback in 2021, the Wynn was ready for it.
The problem with the poker summer of 2021 was that it was missing a key component: the World Series of Poker. With the WSOP pushed out to October and November 2021, the Wynn took a different angle for its summer offering. The Wynn Summer Classic offered just 33 events and about $20K in guarantees. However, it did introduce the Wynn Millions, that singular $10K buy-in tournament with a $10M guarantee that proved to be incredibly successful.
This year, the WSOP is back for the summer. The Wynn Summer Classic is back, too. It will run May 31 to July 20 with 32 events and $16.6M in guarantees. (An updated schedule reflects an additional NLHE tournament and the PLO and 8-Game Championship tournaments switched.)
2022 Wynn Summer Classic Schedule
The official schedule for this series does not provide numbered events. We only assigned event numbers for easier tracking.
The highlighted events in our chart reflect those highlighted on the official schedule. There isn’t a tournament labeled as the Main Event, but it seems that the No Limit Hold’em Championship (Event 17) with its $3.5M GTD prize pool would be it.
Event
Dates
Buy-in
Tournament Description
Guarantee
1
May 31-June 3
$600
NLHE (3 flights)
$200,000
2
June 3
$550
Seniors NLHE (50+)
$50,000
3
June 4
$1,100
NLHE
$200,000
4
June 5
$1,100
NLHE
$200,000
5
June 6
$1,100
NLHE
$200,000
6
June 7-10
$1,100
NLHE (3 flights)
$1,000,000
7
June 10-11
$1,100
HORSE Championship
$100,000
8
June 11
$1,100
NLHE
$200,000
9
June 12-13
$1,100
Limit Omaha-8 Championship
$100,000
10
June 13-17
$2,200
NLHE Mystery Bounty (4 flights)
$2,500,000
11
June 18
$1,100
NLHE
$200,000
12
June 19
$1,100
NLHE
$200,000
13
June 19-20
$3,000
PLO Championship
$250,000
14
June 20-21
$1,100
Seniors NLHE Championship (50+)
$250,000
15
June 21-23
$1,600
NLHE (2 flights)
$1,000,000
16
June 23
$550
PLO
$100,000
17
June 24-27
$3,500
NLHE Championship (3 flights)
$3,500,000
18
June 27
$5,200
NLHE Progressive Bounty
$250,000
19
June 28-July 2
$1,600
NLHE (3 flights)
$2,000,000
20
July 1-2
$3,000
8-Game Mix Championship
$150,000
21
July 2
$550
NLHE
$100,000
22
July 3
$550
NLHE
$100,000
23
July 4
$550
NLHE
$100,000
24
July 5
$550
Ladies NLHE
$50,000
25
July 5-8
$1,100
NLHE (3 flights)
$1,000,000
26
July 8
$1,100
NLHE
$200,000
27
July 9
$1,100
NLHE
$200,000
28
July 10
$1,100
NLHE
$200,000
29
July 11
$550
NLHE
$100,000
30
July 12
$1,100
NLHE
$200,000
31
July 13-16
$1,600
NLHE Mystery Bounty (3 flights)
$1,500,000
32
July 17
$550
NLHE
$100,000
33
July 18-20
$500
Casino Employee NLHE Mystery Bounty (2 flights)
$100,000
When the Wynn releases tournament structures for this series, we will post it here.
https://twitter.com/WynnPoker/status/1509297977210277888?s=20&t=QGRS0UwUdmjibX-KKPla8A
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