World Series of Poker Announces Much Anticipated 2024 WSOP Schedule

It’s everyone’s ultimate poker dream, but only a few lucky souls have ever triumphed in the $10,000 WSOP Main Event. The quest to become the 55th Main Event Champion begins on July 3rd with four starting days, followed by two days 2s. By this stage the field will be small enough to sit all remaining players at once and the event will play out over a further eight days until it reaches its conclusion and the new champion emerges victorious. Here is the main event schedule:

Fans of Pot Limit Omaha are well served this year, with over a quarter of the events being either Omaha based games or mixed games that include Omaha variants. In total there are 25 tournaments that feature Omaha, with the most interesting new addition to the schedule being event 41, the $1,500 Mixed No-Limit Hold'em/Pot-Limit Omaha Double Board Bomb Pot. It’s quite a mouthful just to say the name and for sure it will be an explosive tournament. Bomb Pots originated in online cash games, where random hands occur in which all players put a fixed amount into the pot and the flop is dealt out before any further action takes place. This unique format will surely peak the interest of players and could be indicative of further innovations in tournament format in future series.

The WSOP is about so much more than bracelet events these days. There is an extensive schedule of daily deepstack events to rival similar offerings that take place in other Las Vegas casinos during the series. Running from May 28th until July 16th, the daily schedule is quite straightforward, with three tournaments on most days, at set buy-ins and start times. Each day begins with a $250 NLHold’em at 1pm, followed by a $400 NL Hold’em at 4pm and a $200 NL Hold’em at 8pm. In addition to these fixed daily offerings, there is also a $250 seniors event (for players aged 50+) at 9am on Thursdays and a $250 H.O.R.S.E takes place at 3pm on Mondays.

There is also a comprehensive satellite schedule, with several satellite tournaments taking place every day throughout the series. Moving in the same direction that most live poker events had already switched to a few years ago, all satellites are now using the milestone format, where players win their seats once they reach a predefined chip total, which is both a faster format and better for chip security. Every operator seems to choose a different name for this format at the WSOP has gone with "Landmark" for theirs.  Some of these Landmark satellites are for winning qualification into specific bracelet events, other simply award casino chips as prizes, giving players flexibility on which event to use the winnings to play.

Last year GG Poker generated 774 qualifiers for the main event, which was significantly responsible for the event breaking the 10,000 participation barrier for the first time. This year they are aiming higher, with GG Poker ambassador Daniel Negreanu confidently expecting the number of online qualifiers from the site to top 1,000. Details of GG Poker’s Road to Vegas promotion have not yet been released, but are expected soon. 

Here's the full schedule of events for the "Make Mine a 99" WSOP of 2024:

Further articles investigating the schedule in more detail will be published on PokerWired soon.