The World Series of Poker have just announced that the 45th edition of their annual series of tournaments will be held from May 27 to July 14, 2014, at the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas. This will be the 10th consecutive year that this series of tournaments held in the Rio hotel. On the menu, gold bracelet, satellite tournaments, cash games and of course, the main event of this prestigious series of tournaments which will end Monday, July 14, 2014.
Main Event
It will be the longest tournament of poker in this series. In the usual, it will be a $ 10,000 buy-in Hold'em Tournament ' no limit. The tournament is therefore intended to play on 5 July 2014 to July 14, 2014.
There will be 3 days of departure for this tournament: Saturday, July 5, Sunday, July 6 and July 7.
WSOP.com
The poker room online WSOP.com present in New Jersey and Nevada will be the exclusive place to qualify for one of the tournaments of this series. Satellites should be played on a regular basis until the beginning of the series.
When it comes to cash games, they will begin May 27 and run 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, for the duration of the WSOP.
A few dates to remember:
Saturday, May 31: On this day, will play a tournament that had been popular last year: the "Millionaire Maker". The buy-in will be $ 1,500, and the person who wins it will multiply its investment about 666. In 2013, 6343 players took part in this tournament, creating a prize pool of 8, $5M. The winner of the tournament was won 1,198,780$.
Sunday, June 29: The return of Big One for ONE DROP, the famous tournament with $ 1,000,000 of buy-in. As in the first edition, it will be a tournament in Hold' no limit to raise funds for ONE DROP. Hurry up to register because the maximum number of players for this tournament was caped at 56. The winner this year could very well win the biggest purse in the history of the WSOP.
Thursday, July 3 and Friday 4 July: The return of Little One for ONE DROP. A $ 1,111 buy-in Hold'em Tournament ' no limit. For this special tournament, there will be 2 days of departure and may be will re-enter at will during the first 4 levels. When the first edition of this tournament, 4756 players there took part to create a prize pool of 4. 3 m$. The winner had got hold of $ 663,727.
Return / 2013 statistics
The WSOP 2013 attracted 79,471 players, a record for the WSOP in 44 years of history. 62 events were organized and offered cumulative prizepool of 197 M$. Players from 104 different countries attended at least 1 event during this series.
Will you be in this edition of the WSOP? You can discuss it on the forum of PokerCollectif: schedule for the WSOP 2014