In 2021 the World Series of Poker (WSOP) will return with full force. The tournament will not be held in the summer but in the autumn and will feature all the familiar events, including the highly anticipated $10,000 No-Limit Hold’em World Championship. In 2019, this event had surpassed the 8,000-entry mark for the second time in history. Played at the Rio Convention Centre, the tournaments have buy-ins ranging from $400 to $250,000.

From Sep 30^th until November 22^nd a total number of 88 tournaments will be played including more than a dozen championship events in all popular poker variants.

This year, the Main Event will have four starting flights to choose from – Day 1A on Thursday, November 4th, Day 1B on Friday, November 5th, Day 1C on Saturday, November 6th and Day 1D on Sunday, November 7th. The Final Table will be played on Tuesday, 16 November and Wednesday, 17 November.

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WSOP Online Qualifiers at GGPoker and WSOP.com

The past years saw Online Events during the WSOP on wsop.com. Usually, those events were held online until the final table which was played live at the Rio Convention Centre. Those events were axed this year, mainly because the WSOP now offers an online series which starts this summer.

Meanwhile, GGPoker launched their full WSOP Online 2021 Schedule for international players with 33 WSOP bracelets to be won from Sunday, August 1 through to Sunday, September 12. So this year online bracelets will only be awarded to non-US players playing on GGPoker. And aside from the bracelet, tournament players can also win a share of the cash prize.

This year’s schedule came as no surprise given that the 2020 WSOP Online Main Event at GGPoker received the Guinness World Record for the largest prize pool ($27.5 million) in a single online poker tournament. And the poker room ahs also come off a $100 MILLION guaranteed WSOP Super Circuit Online Series. During August and September, tens of thousands of players are expected to join the event at the global-facing poker room, including brand ambassador, Daniel Negreanu. Director Ty Stewart also notes it’s worth joining if you are unable to head to the states in the fall because “it’ll be the closest thing to the live WSOP tournament experience outside of Vegas!”

The most noteworthy bracelet events on GGPoker are:

• The Return No-Limit Hold’em [Final Day] – $1,000,000 guaranteed – $50 buy-in – Sunday, Aug. 1
• $1,111 COVID-19 Relief Charity Event [2-Day Event] – $1,111 buy-in – Sunday, Aug. 1 – The entire $111 tournament fee will be donated to Caesars Cares, a COVID-19 charity
• MILLIONAIRE MAKER No-Limit Hold’em – $1M for 1st [Final Day] – $5,000,000 guaranteed – $1,500 buy-in – Sunday, Aug. 8
• Heads-Up No-Limit Hold’em Championship [128 Players Max] – $10,000 buy-in – Saturday, Aug. 21 
• WSOP GGMasters HR Freezeout No-Limit Hold’em [2-Day Event] – $2,000,000 guaranteed – $1,050 buy-in – Sunday, Aug. 22 
• Super High Roller Championship No-Limit Hold’em – $5,000,000 guaranteed – $25,000 buy-in – Sunday, Aug. 29
• MAIN EVENT Online Championship – $20,000,000 guaranteed – $5,000 buy-in – Day 1 flights begin Sunday, Aug. 22 – Each flight is a freezeout, players can play up to three flights

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Special tournaments at the Live WSOP 2021

October to November: Return of the Record Breakers

Each Friday and Saturday of the 2021 WSOP will feature one of the WSOP’s famous no-limit hold’em events.

• The Millionaire Maker
• Monster Stack
• Double Stack
• Colossus
• The Closer

All those events return with multi-million-dollar prize pool guarantees.

October 5^th: $25,000 Heads Up No-Limit Hold’em Championship

The WSOP’s annual Heads Up Championship goes for prestige with an increase of the buy-in to $25,000 and a maximum of 64 players who are sure to be among the world’s elite.

Among the previous winners of this event and players like Justin Bonomo, Adrián Mateos, Keith Lehr, Brian Hastings and Jake Cody.

October 10^th: $1,000 Flip and Go Presented by GG Poker

The popular online format will be transformed into a live event. Each player goes all in preflop on the first hand, is dealt three cards and chooses two. One player wins the table and is immediately in the money. Then the tournament is played out under a traditional structure.

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October 31^st: Poker Players’ Championship

The Poker Players’ Championship expands to nine games and will be played in those variants:

• Limit Hold’em
• Omaha-8
• Razz
• Stud
• Stud-8
• No Limit Hold’em
• PLO
• Lowball (2-7)
• Triple Draw

A $2,500 version of this format will also be offered on Oct 28^th.

November 17^th: Poker Hall of Fame Bounty

As a tribute to the Poker Hall of Fame, which was launched in 1979, living members of the Hall of Fame will be invited to participate in a $1,979 No Limit Hold’em tournament open to all players.

Each participating player will receive a bounty corresponding to the year they were inducted into poker’s most exclusive club. The 2021 Hall of Fame inductee will also be announced.

Schedule WSOP 2021

Below is the full schedule of the WSOP 2021.

All times are Pacific Daylight Time (PDT), i.e., Las Vegas time.

This Year’s Main WSOP Changes

The main change to the schedule is the reduced allotted time for the Main Event final table. It used to be played out over three days but was shortened to two days this year. The main reason for the 3-day final table was the deal with ESPN which aired the program and was based on three separate rather short programming windows. This year’s WSOP will be aired on CBS, and they have a different format which allows for the main event to be concluded in two days with more play time.

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