2024 WSOP!

Would you be in favor of the WSOP having satellites for all the events, so players could go with 3-4 tickets for various events? I would personally play a lot of the online sats if they had them from the $500+ events. Seems crazy GGPoker don't do this as they would qualify thousands of players before the tournament even starts... Thoughts?

Last year if I remember correctly Initial Details and Dates of various main tournaments was announced either in December or early January and full schedule was announced on 1st or 2nd February.

So far mid January there is no detailed announcements of various events other than starting event date and main event dates !!

Hopefully we get some announcements in coming days so players can start planning and booking Air & Hotels.

Pretty sure they dropped the full schedule in the first few days of February last year, which would put the announcement 2-3 weeks out from right now if they stick to a similar timeline.

Yes, last time they dropped a preliminary schedule Dec 12th which listed dates for the Mystery bounty and Monster stack among other popular events. Were they fussing over the Paradise series this time such that they are behind scheduling out the WSOP?

Or maybe they don’t want the WPT to seek some sort of retribution 😀.

I’m flying over from Manchester, UK. It’ll be my first series. If anybody want to grab a beer and sweat a few tournaments over there, give me a shout ��

This is great- I hope it stays same this year. Only thing that bums me out is I tend to build my schedule out around what I like at Venetian and aria as they both have but in levels I like most $400-1100. I’m pretty sure this year, I’ll build a schedule out around Venetian $1100 or 800 (hopefully 2 bigger gtn events) and maybe the WSOP monster stack.

I hate wsop but I would play a great structure in my buy in range $500-1500 if structure is wonderful and life changing money up top. I’ll probably try to avoid the $800 as I feel they turn into turbos kinda and field sizes are too big. Venetian / aria are my 2 favorite locations to play at- if I was wealthy, I would be playing at Wynn as I feel they offer a ton of rich folk value with some solid mtters that are so easy to identify in the fields.

If you're old enough to play the WSOP Seniors event (50 years old) or the Super Seniors (60), those have excellent structures and are great value (both are $1000 buy-ins). The Millionaire Maker also has an excellent structure, with a buy-in of $1500.

All 3 of those events are usually scheduled around the middle to the end of June each year.

You shouldn't have a problem finding compatriots while there. There were two Brits at my table for the Monster Stack. Good luck on your WSOP adventure. I am an American living in Arizona. It is close enough that I drive to the WSOP.

Mick is spot on - You can guess the Senior will be June 19th and 20th starting days, Milly June 21 22 and the Super Senior June 25th if they stay anywhere near consistent with the last few years.

Correct. The Seniors seems to be a fixture now for the days preceding weekend #4 of the series, with the Super Seniors following a few days later.

not sure about that. The senior's has usually been father's day weekend. This year Father's day is June 16th, so day one of the senior's might be around June 13th. I could end up being wrong of course...

Seniors was 6/21 6/22 last year with super seniors 6/27.
Father's day was 6/18.
But, yes, it was always Father's day weekend in the past. Think they will keep it this way?

I don’t think that Father’s Day is a factor. My guess is that the schedule is primarily built around the weekend highlights, and that the Mystery Millions/Gladiators/Monster Stack/Milly maker/ Colossus is the order of play that determines the programme.
Seniors are the section of the population that have the greatest personal flexibility WRT work/family etc, and thus Seniors and Super Seniors events are slid into the schedule without consideration about public holidays.

I agree and I've already made hotel reservations accordingly. Counting on Mystery Bounty first weekend and Monster Stack 3rd weekend.

The Fathers' day weekend isn't a holiday in the sense of people getting time off, so I don't think it has to do with old people having flexible schedules. I can see how some would like to be able to spend that weekend playing poker, while other fathers would find it a major issue, since it is a time they typically spend with their families as opposed to grinding tournaments.

For many years it was Seniors leading up to Fathers' Day weekend, and then Super-seniors on the weekend. They stopped doing that in 2022, with the two events being a week after the holiday. I don't know if the events were previously scheduled around the holiday, or moved off of that weekend due to complaints. But unless something changes again, I wouldn't expect those events to revolve around Fathers' day next summer.

As for MM and MS, the order was MM, followed by MS for many years. and both occurred prior to Fathers' day. That was also changed in 2022, with the order reversed and one of the events occurring on Fathers' day weekend the last two years.

I think it would be fair to assume the 2024 schedule should be similar to last year, however, given the significant delay in releasing the key events, who knows what they're up to.

Was talking to a friend who use to work for WSOP, said there will be a BIG tournament with $500 buy-in with huge guarantee for 2024 .( He just heard it but no details given)

Yeah, typical gimmick event with moderate structure but 10-handed tables. Always tempting but I can’t stand 10-handed play.

Unfortunately, 10-handed tables for most weekend flights became the norm last summer. They lost a lot of dealers after a smooth start to last year’s series when they didn’t come through on quantity of hours. It’s understandable, but kinda disappointing.

Yeah, hopefully it’ll be better this year. In theory, the logistics should improve year over year at this location. We shall see.

Maybe so. I just think it’s hard to get the dealer situation perfect. They actually had too many at the start of the series last year. But of course, not enough is problematic as well.

Have to give credit though, always amazed how well the WSOP is run

Hiring the exact correct amount of dealers is an impossible task

For sure. It’s a huge undertaking with a lot of unknown variables. All things considered, they do a decent job.

Let's hope Caesar's honors them. They booted folks from reservations made for the Super Bowl once they found out how much the rooms were going for.