WSOP Online Begins with 90 Gold Bracelets Available

The World Series of Poker is ready to award 90 WSOP gold bracelets online. Well, it will probably be 90 bracelets, though only 74 actual WSOP tournaments have been announced so far.

WSOP Online is offering 33 gold bracelet tournaments on GGPoker for a diverse, international group of players in many jurisdictions around the world. There is also a schedule of 33 events for the largest of the United States markets, which is WSOP-dot-com for Nevada and New Jersey players combined. There is a WSOP site that works on a GGPoker platform in the relatively new market of Ontario, Canada, and those players will have eight bracelets available. And finally, there will be bracelet events for US players in Pennsylvania and Michigan – two separate markets. Judging by the Ontario schedule and past WSOP Online series, each of those two states on WSOP-dot-com will offer eight events.

That will make 90 WSOP Online bracelets.

WSOP Senior Vice President and Executive Director Ty Stewart commented on the WSOP Online becoming a highly-anticipated annual series. “We’re the ‘World’ Series of Poker,” he said, noting that players unable to travel to live WSOP events have a unique opportunity to play for bracelets online.

WSOP Online on GGPoker Underway

The largest of the WSOP Online player pools is on GGPoker as it operates internationally. Not only is GGPoker available in many parts of Europe and the Americas (except the United States), its Natural8 platform makes the series available in many parts of Asia as well. For all of those players, they have:

• 33 online bracelet events
• August 20 to October 2
• $5K buy-in Main Event with $25M GTD (Day 2 on September 25)

In conjunction with the series, GGPoker is running a Continental Leaderboards competition to award its winner a VIP prize package worth $35K to the WSOP Paradise in the Bahamas in December.

Event	Date	Buy-in	Tournament Description
1	20-Aug	$108	NLHE Bankroll Builder Bounty
2	21-Aug	$300	NLHE Gladiators of Poker Opener ($2.5M GTD) (Day 2)
3	22-Aug	$2,100	NLHE Bounty Championship
4	24-Aug	$840	PLO Bounty
5	26-Aug	$500	NLHE Ladies Championship
6	27-Aug	$1,500	NLHE Monster Stack
7	28-Aug	$210	NLHE Mystery Millions ($10M GTD) (Day 2)
8	29-Aug	$2,500	Limit Hold’em Championship
9	31-Aug	$315	NLHE Bounty
10	2-Sep	$1,050	NLHe Beat the Pros Bounty
11	3-Sep	$100	NLHE Flip & Go ($1M GTD) (Go Stage)
12	4-Sep	$500	NLHE Mini Main Event ($2.5M GTD)
13	5-Sep	$5,000	NLHE 6-Handed Championship
14	7-Sep	$500	NLHE Big $500 Bounty
15	9-Sep	$800	NLHE Ultra Deepstack
16	10-Sep	$1,050	PLO Secret Bounty
17	11-Sep	$1,500	NLHE Millionaire Maker ($5M GTD) (Live Final 100)
18	12-Sep	$5,000	Short Deck Championship (3-Stack)
19	14-Sep	$777	NLHE Lucky Sevens Bounty 7-Handed
20	16-Sep	$1,000	NLHE Double Chance (2-Stack)
21	17-Sep	$1,500	NLHE GGMasters High Roller Freezeout
22	18-Sep	$400	NLHE Colossus ($3M GTD) (Day 2)
23	18-Sep	$400	PLOssus Bounty ($1M GTD) (Final Stage)
24	19-Sep	$10,000	PLO Championship
25	21-Sep	$525	NLHE Superstack Turbo Bounty
26	23-Sep	$10,000	NLHE Heads-Up Championship (128-Player Cap)
27	24-Sep	$500	PLO Fifty Stack
28	25-Sep	$5,000	NLHE Main Event ($25M GTD) (Day 2)
29	26-Sep	$25,000	NLHE GGMillion$ Super High Roller Championship
30	28-Sep	$2,100	NLHE 6-Handed Bounty
31	30-Sep	$5,000	PLO High Roller
32	1-Oct	$1,500	NLHE Turbo Bounty Closer
33	2-Oct	$10,300	NLHE GGMillion$ High Roller ($10M GTD) (Day 2)

The full schedule, along with details about the promotion and Day 1 flights for the multi-day events listed above, is on GGPoker.

WSOP Ontario Mini-Series Underway

The province of Ontario in Canada receives its own mini bracelet series from the World Series of Poker. It is a small market but the first regional market for the WSOP using the GGPoker platform to power it. Anyone located in Ontario – residency not required – can compete in a few select events in the coming weeks.

• 8 online bracelet events
• August 21 to October 2
• $1K buy-in Main Event with $500K GTD

The series listing shows a guarantee on every prize pool, and buy-ins starting at just $100.

Event	Date	Buy-in	Tournament Description	GTD
1	21-Aug	$300	NLHE Gladiators of Poker Opener	$150,000
2	28-Aug	$210	NLHE Mystery Millions	$200,000
3	4-Sep	$100	NLHE Million$ Mini Main Event	$100,000
4	10-Sep	$2,013	NLHE Millionaire Maker in Paradise (Live Final 100)	$6,720,000
5	11-Sep	$400	PLOssus Bounty	$100,000
6	18-Sep	$400	NLHE Colossus	$200,000
7	25-Sep	$1,000	NLHE Main Event	$500,000
8	2-Oct	$525	NLHE Closer	$150,000

Some of the above events have numerous starting flights. Those are listed on the GGPoker-Ontario page dedicated to the WSOP Online 2023.

WSOP Online US Starts September 10

Poker players located in America must wait until the second week of September to start their bracelet hunting online. The WSOP Online 2023 series begins on September 10 and runs for approximately five weeks. The only schedule available thus far is for the largest US state-regulated market of Nevada-New Jersey. The two states are linked by their multi-state online poker agreement and share player pools.

This schedule for Nevada and New Jersey (together) is the equivalent of the aforementioned GGPoker international WSOP Online. The player pools will be smaller, and there are no prize pool guarantees listed, but there will be the same number of bracelets available.

• 33 online bracelet events
• September 10 to October 17
• $1K buy-in Online Championship

Players will notice in the schedule that buy-ins start at $400 and climb to $5,300. Not a single event has a guarantee, including the Main Event, which is listed as the Online Championship in the US market.

Event	Date	Buy-in	Tournament Description
1	10-Sep	$400	NLHE Kickoff
2	10-Sep	$2,000	NLHE
3	12-Sep	$3,200	NLHE 6-Max High Roller
4	14-Sep	$1,000	PLO 6-Max
5	16-Sep	$500	NLHE Deepstack
6	17-Sep	$888	NLHE Crazy 8s
7	17-Sep	$5,300	NLHE 6-Max Super High Roller
8	19-Sep	$500	NLHE 6-Max
9	21-Sep	$600	NLHE Deepstack Turbo
10	23-Sep	$2,500	NLHE Freezeout
11	24-Sep	$365	NLHE Monster Stack
12	24-Sep	$1,500	NLHE 6-Max
13	26-Sep	$500	NLHE
14	28-Sep	$1,000	NLHE Bounty
15	30-Sep	$500	NLHE Turbo
16	1-Oct	$400	NLHE Colossus
17	1-Oct	$2,000	NLHE 6-Max
18	2-Oct	$500	NLHE
19	3-Oct	$777	NLHE Lucky 7s
20	4-Oct	$400	NLHE Ultra Deepstack
21	5-Oct	$500	NLHE Super Turbo
22	7-Oct	$500	NLHE Big $500 6-Max
23	8-Oct	$600	NLHE Deepstack Championship
24	8-Oct	$3,200	NLHE High Roller Championship
25	10-Oct	$1,500	NLHE 6-Max Bounty
26	11-Oct	$400	PLOssus 6-Max
27	12-Oct	$1,000	NLHE Freezeout
28	13-Oct	$500	NLHE 6-Max Turbo
29	14-Oct	$600	NLHE 6-Max Super Turbo Bounty
30	15-Oct	$1,000	NLHE Online Championship
31	15-Oct	$5,300	NLHE 6-Max Super High Roller Freezeout
32	16-Oct	$400	NLHE Deepstack
33	17-Oct	$888	NLHE Crazy 8s Fall Finale

The WSOP-dot-com site in Nevada-New Jersey will be offering a special promotion to award five WSOP Paradise prize packages for the December series in December. All players who make a WSOP Online final table in this series will receive a freeroll ticket for a special October 19 tournament with those five packages as the prize pool.

WSOP Online for PA and MI Still Unlisted

It is likely that the Pennsylvania and Michigan WSOP Online series will each offer eight gold bracelet events. This would be consistent with the series of the past and with the 2023 WSOP summer schedule.

For some reason, the WSOP PA site shows that series as scheduled to begin on October 15, when the other US series is almost finished. And the landing page on WSOP-dot-com shows that this series will offer $150K guaranteed.

The WSOP MI landing page shows the same as for Pennsylvania, indicating that it, too, will guarantee $150K and start its action on October 15.

More information is (obviously) forthcoming.