This day has been eagerly awaited by poker fans around the world. The day when we will know the schedule of the 56th WSOP in Las Vegas.
The WSOP will return to the Horseshoe Las Vegas and Paris Las Vegas on the iconic Las Vegas Strip for the fourth year in 2025. It will all take place between the dates of May 27-July 16, when up to 100 bracelet tournaments will take place. The very first tournament will be the $1,000 Mystery Millions, which guarantees a minimum $1 million prize for the winner, and $1 million will be waiting for one lucky winner in the mystery envelope.
There are some classics and also some new tournaments
The tournament schedule will of course feature the $500 Industry Employees NLH tournament (formerly known as Casino Employees), all the different poker formats, high roller tournaments with buy-ins ranging from $25,000 to $250,000. We will also once again see the $1,500 Double Board Bomb Pot, which debuted last year in a mixed NLH/PLO format, but this year will be in PLO format only. There will also be a $1,500 Millionaire Maker, a $50,000 buy-in Poker Players Championship and a $500 buy-in Colossus NLH. The cheapest tournament on the list is once again the Gladiators of Poker NLH with a $300 buy-in and a $3,000,000 guarantee.
The PLO High Roller with a buy-in of $100,000 or the interesting Battle of the Ages NLH have been added to the list of tournaments, where players aged 50 and over will play in Fligh 1A and players under 50 in Fligh 1B. The advancing players will then meet on Day 2 to battle it out for the bracelet. New additions include a $25,000 High Roller NLH/PLO Mixed or a $3,000 buy-in T.O.R.S.E. event. If you don't know what T.O.R.S.E. is, it's the H.O.R.S.E. format, but it will replace Holdem with 2-7 Limit Triple Draw.
When is the Main Event?
You'll be interested in the $10,000 buy-in Main Event itself, which set a new record last year with 10,112 entries and a prizepool of $94,041,600. The winner was Jonathan Tamayo, who took home an even $10 million. This year, the Main Event will take place on the dates of July 2 to July 16. There will be 4 opening flights and traditionally, you will once again only have one single chance to advance. If the $10,000 buy-in is out of your budget, there will also be various qualifiers available, which last year allowed 1,000 players to enter the Main Event. Will they manage to break the record again?
“We had hoped to continue to break records last year, and we did - the WSOP Main Event was bigger than ever. “In 2025, the WSOP schedule is better again, with something for everyone who loves the game. There’s nothing like summer in Las Vegas and we’re ready to welcome players to the biggest and best WSOP of all time," said Ty Stewart, CEO of the WSOP.
WSOP 2025 will also bring a new system for collecting a fee from each tournament. For lower buy-in tournaments, there is a higher percentage fee and on the contrary, for high roller tournaments, the fee is at a lower percentage. For example, for a $300 buy-in, the organizers will take 18 percent ($54) and for a $250,000 buy-in, the fee will be only 1.5 percent of the buy-in ($3,750).
The full WSOP Las Vegas 2025 schedule can be found here
WSOP Europe
Along with the WSOP Las Vegas schedule, the organisers have also given us a date for WSOP Europe, which will once again be held at the Kings Resort in Rozvadov. The series will start on September 12 and run until October 8. During these days, it will once again offer 15 bracelet tournaments with a Main Event with a buy-in of €10,350, but this time offering a €6,000,000 guarantee. The full WSOP Europe schedule has not yet been unveiled.
Source - WSOP, PGT, Pokernews