Rws Poker Tournament 2018
The complete event schedule for the 2018 World Series of Poker (WSOP) has been published, running more than a month and a half, from May 29th through July 17th at its customary home, the Rio in Las Vegas.
$1,000,000 Guaranteed Championship Final Table 519 Entries formed a prize pool of $1,297,500 Player 1. Nick Palma- 3,410,000 Player 2. Nick Salimbene- 1,835. LAS VEGAS (AP) — The 2018 edition of the World Series of Poker opened Tuesday in Las Vegas with 78 high-stakes card tournaments expected to again draw tens of thousands of players and break an attendance record thanks in part to regulatory changes. New to this series will be the use of a big blind ante format for some events and the participation of New Jersey poker players from the comfort.
There will be nine new events on the 78-event schedule in 2018:
1. $10,000 Super Turbo Bounty No-Limit Hold’em
2. $100,000 High Roller No-Limit Hold’em
3. $365 Pot-Limit Omaha GIANT
4. $1,000 DOUBLE STACK No-Limit Hold’em (10,000 starting chips)
5. $565 WSOP.com ONLINE Pot-Limit Omaha 6-Handed
6. $1,500 BOUNTY Pot-Limit Omaha
7. $1,000 DOUBLE-STACK No-Limit Hold’em (30-minute levels)
8. $1,500 THE CLOSER No-Limit Hold’em (15,000 starting chips, 30-minute levels)
9. $50,000 High Roller No-Limit Hold’em
Rws Poker Tournament 2018 Tournament
Five events that were on the schedule in 2017 will be gone next year: the $10,000 Tag Team event, two $1,000 No-Limit Hold’em events, and two $1,500 No-Limit Hold’em events.
The Main Event
The $10,000 Main Event, the only event that most casual poker fans care about (note: I am only talking about casual poker fans, not poker players, or those more into the poker community), will begin on Monday, July 2nd, with the first of three starting flights. If we are to assume that the rest of the tournament will run the same as this year, there will also be three Day 2 flights. Days 2A and 2B will likely be run on the same calendar day, though the fields will be separate, while Day 2C will have a day to itself, as it will be by far the biggest of the three. From there, the Main Event will run every day without a break until it is over.
That means, of course, that the November Nine is still no longer a thing. Starting in 2008, the Main Event had paused when the final table was determined and then resumed in November, allowing ESPN to build the tournament narrative for its television broadcasts, but this year, the November Nine was nixed in favor of just running the tournament straight through the finish.
One Drop Event
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The Big One for One Drop, the million-dollar buy-in event to benefit the One Drop charity, returns for 2018, as well. It debuted in 2012 when Antonio Esfandiari won $18.3 million. After a year off, it came back in 2014 and Daniel Colman took the title for $15.3 million. People thought it would be on the schedule in 2016, but instead, it was moved to Monaco and made into an invitational tournament, with wealthy business people preferred over poker pros.
Interestingly, the Big One for One Drop will be the final event of the 2018 WSOP, rather than the $10,000 Main Event. WSOP organizers decided to have twelve tournaments begin after the start of the Main Event, probably to keep people at the Rio as long as possible, instead of heading home as the Main Event field dwindles.