To fill in the void created by the postponement of the 2020 WSOP in Las Vegas, the world’s biggest poker brand – WSOP recently announced the multi-platform WSOP Online Series promising 85 bracelet events over two months and thus allowing players to chase WSOP glory from their homes.
Scheduled to run from 1st July to 6th September this year, the WSOP Online Series will see its 31 bracelet events running on WSOP.com, while the remaining 54 bracelet events will take place on international-facing online site GGPoker from 19th July to 6th September. This week, GGPoker released the official WSOP Online Series schedule, which includes the $5,000 buy-in WSOP No Limit Holdem Main Event, the biggest highlight of the whole series with a record-breaking $25,000,000 GTD prize pool that makes it the largest prize pool tournament ever held in online poker history.
“The single biggest guarantee in the history of online poker is exactly what this once-in-a-lifetime event deserves,” said WSOP Executive Director Ty Stewart in the release detailing the schedule.
Click to check out the WSOP Online schedule announced for events to be played on WSOP.com.
The buy-ins for events on GGPoker range between $100 to $25,000. The biggest guaranteed tournaments outside of the marquee main event include the $25,000 buy-in no-limit hold’em Poker Players Championship that promises $10 million guarantee, the $500 buy-in mini main event with a guaranteed prizepool of $5,000,000 and the ‘Millionaire Maker’ promising $5,000,000 in guarantee.
Some other notable events on the schedule for GGPoker include a $100 buy-in ‘The Opener’ that features a $2,000,000 guarantee, a $1,111 buy-in ‘Every 1 for Covid Relief’ that will award $111 from each entry to the Caesars Cares fund, the $400 buy-in ‘Colossus’ event with a $3,000,000 guarantee, and the $1,500 buy-in ‘Millionaire Maker’ with $1,000,000 in top prize. Another staple of the live WSOP that made the schedule was the $10,000 buy-in heads-up no-limit hold’em championship.
As already announced by GGPoker, poker players who make WSOP Online final tables will be required to play under their real names for the sake of poker fans following along with the action, which will be live-streamed. The real names of players who make ITM finishes will also be reported.
In addition to bracelet events, GGPoker will host a series of micro and low stake events, plus some qualifiers, leading up to the WSOP Online Series on July 19. That means that no matter what size of the bankroll you have, you will have an opportunity to win the coveted WSOP gold bracelet.
In the official WSOP press release, GGPoker Ambassador Daniel Negreanu said, “There’s no feeling like winning a WSOP bracelet, and GGPoker is opening that opportunity to the masses.”
“The ability to compete for WSOP bracelets – the ultimate prize in poker – from home is so amazing. The big events will be full of players from all over the world; Europe, Canada, South America and everywhere else – the WSOP action will be scorching hot this summer”, said Fedor Holz, WSOP bracelet winner and all-time leading German poker player.
Here is a quick look at the official schedule of the WSOP online events on GGPoker:
| Date | Event Number | Event | Buy-In | Guarantee |
| 7/19/2020 | – 1 | $100 The Opener [Final Day] | $100 | $2,000,000 |
| 7/19/2020 | – 2 | $1,111 Every 1 for Covid Relief | $1,111 | |
| 7/19/2020 | – 3 | $525 Super Turbo Bounty No Limit Hold’em 6-Handed | $525 | |
| 7/21/2020 | – 4 | $5,000 Pot Limit Omaha Championship | $5,000 | |
| 7/22/2020 | – 5 | $1,500 Fifty Stack No Limit Hold’em | $1,500 | |
| 7/23/2020 | – 6 | $1,050 Bounty Pot Limit Omaha | $1,050 | |
| 7/25/2020 | – 7 | $600 Monster Stack No Limit Hold’em 6-Handed | $600 | |
| 7/26/2020 | – 8 | $1,500 No Limit Hold’em | $1,500 | |
| 7/26/2020 | – 9 | $2,500 Pot Limit Omaha | $2,500 | |
| 7/26/2020 | – 10 | $400 Colossus [Day 2] | $400 | |
| 7/26/2020 | – 11 | $400 PLOssus [Day 2] | $400 | $1,000,000 |
| 7/28/2020 | – 12 | $10,000 Short Deck No Limit Hold’em Championship | $10,000 | |
| 7/29/2020 | – 13 | $2,500 No Limit Hold’em 6-Handed | $2,500 | |
| 7/30/2020 | – 14 | $840 Bounty No Limit Hold’em | $840 | |
| 8/1/2020 | – 15 | $500 Deepstack No Limit Hold’em | $500 | |
| 8/2/2020 | – 16 | $1,000 Short Deck No Limit Hold’em | $1,000 | |
| 8/2/2020 | – 17 | $1,500 Millionaire Maker | $1,500 | $5,000,000 |
| 8/2/2020 | – 18 | $500 Turbo Deepstack No Limit Hold’em | $500 | |
| 8/4/2020 | – 19 | $2,100 No Limit Hold’em Bounty Championship | $2,100 | |
| 8/5/2020 | – 20 | $400 Pot Limit Omaha | $400 | |
| 8/6/2020 | – 21 | $1,000 No Limit Hold’em | $1,000 | |
| 8/8/2020 | – 22 | $800 Double Stack Pot Limit Omaha | $800 | |
| 8/9/2020 | – 23 | HK$8,000 No Limit Hold’em Asia Championship [Final Day] | HK$ 8000 | $8,000,000 HKD |
| 8/9/2020 | – 24 | $150 GGMasters WSOP Edition [Freezeout] | $150 | $1,000,000 |
| 8/9/2020 | – 25 | $10,000 Heads Up No Limit Hold’em Championship | $10,000 | |
| 8/11/2020 | – 26 | $5,000 No Limit Hold’em 6-Handed Championship | $5,000 | |
| 8/12/2020 | – 27 | $2,500 Double Stack No Limit Hold’em | $2,500 | |
| 8/13/2020 | – 28 | $525 Bounty No Limit Hold’em 6-Handed | $525 | |
| 8/15/2020 | – 29 | $300 Monster Stack No Limit Hold’em 6-Handed | $300 | |
| 8/16/2020 | – 30 | $1,500 Pot Limit Omaha | $1,500 | |
| 8/16/2020 | – 31 | $500 Mini Main Event [Final Day] | $500 | $5,000,000 |
| 8/16/2020 | – 32 | $840 Super Turbo Bounty No Limit Hold’em | $840 | |
| 8/18/2020 | – 33 | $600 No Limit Hold’em Deepstack Championship | $600 | |
| 8/19/2020 | – 34 | $800 Pot Limit Omaha | $800 | |
| 8/20/2020 | – 35 | $500 Limit Hold’em | $500 | |
| 8/22/2020 | – 36 | $500 Deepstack No-Limit Hold’em | $500 | |
| 8/23/2020 | – 37 | $1,500 Marathon No Limit Hold’em | $1,500 | |
| 8/23/2020 | – 38 | $25,000 NLHE Poker Players Championship | $25,000 | $10,000,000 |
| 8/23/2020 | – 39 | BIG 50 [Final Day] | $50 | $1,000,000 |
| 8/25/2020 | – 40 | $1,500 Limit Hold’em Championship | $1,500 | |
| 8/26/2020 | – 41 | $1,000 No Limit Hold’em 6-Handed | $1,000 | |
| 8/27/2020 | – 42 | $1,500 Pot Limit Omaha | $1,500 | |
| 8/29/2020 | – 43 | $300 Double Stack No Limit Hold’em | $300 | |
| 8/30/2020 | – 44 | $400 Forty Stack No Limit Hold’em | $400 | |
| 8/30/2020 | – 45 | $5,000 No Limit Hold’em Main Event [Day 2] | $5,000 | $25,000,000 |
| 8/30/2020 | – 46 | $1,000 Turbo No Limit Hold’em 6-Handed | $1,000 | |
| 9/1/2020 | – 47 | People’s Choice Event [Most Popular] | ||
| 9/2/2020 | – 48 | People’s Choice Event [Pros Vote] | ||
| 9/3/2020 | – 49 | People’s Choice Event [Spin the Wheel] | ||
| 9/5/2020 | – 50 | People’s Choice Event [Asia, Most Popular] | ||
| 9/5/2020 | – 51 | $1,050 Beat the Pros [Bounty] | $1,050 | |
| 9/6/2020 | – 52 | $10K WSOP Super MILLION$ | $10,000 | $10,000,000 |
| 9/6/2020 | – 53 | $100 WSOP MILLION$ [Final Day] | $100 | $2,000,000 |
| 9/6/2020 | – 54 | $500 The Closer | $500 |