Here are five players to watch this summer at the WSOP In all, the schedule features 95 live bracelet events and 20 online events with buy-ins ranging from the $300 Gladiators of Poker No-limit Hold’em with a $3 million guaranteed prize pool to the $250,000 Super High Roller No-limit Hold’em tournament. After narrowly missing out in 2022 on the record for the largest Main Event field, officials ran numerous promotions and satellites to ensure they broke the mark this year. The $10,000 buy-in No-limit Hold’em World Championship, known as the WSOP Main Event, begins July 3. The 54th annual WSOP begins Tuesday at Horseshoe Las Vegas and Paris Las Vegas, with the $500 buy-in Casino Employees No-limit Hold’em tournament along with the $25,000 buy-in High Roller Six Handed No-Limit Hold’em event. “We are ready for the biggest Main Event ever and the biggest series ever.”
“This year, the theme is ‘bigger and better,’ ” WSOP vice president Jack Effel said. (Steel Brooks/Las Vegas Review-Journal)Ī year ago, the World Series of Poker felt like a summer housewarming party as everyone involved was adjusting to its new home on the Strip. Professional poker players Darren Elias, left, and Matt Berkey address the players at the PokerGO studio at Aria during a private event for online qualifiers before the start of the BetMGM Poker Championship on Wednesday, June 22, 2022, in Las Vegas.
