Wynn Summer Classic to Compete with WSOP 2022
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.
Announcing The Wynn Summer Classic.
See you this Summer.
Full Schedule: https://t.co/kYQRBkorlo pic.twitter.com/NunTJxGrEW
— Wynn Poker Room (@WynnPoker) March 30, 2022
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