World Series Of Poker Has Released 2025 Schedule

WORLD SERIES OF POKER HAS RELEASED 2025 SCHEDULE

24th February, 2025 at 08:23:11

Source: bluffed.net

New prize money distribution format will see up to 50% more players cashing in WSOP events

The World Series of Poker has released its schedule for the 47th edition of the most prestigious tournament in world poker, advising that it will kick off on Tuesday May 31 2025 at its traditional home - the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas.

The organisers claim that this year's event features an ambitious and diverse schedule, along with a new prize money distribution format which will see up to 50% more players cashing in WSOP events than in previous years.

This year eight new events have been added to the schedule, which can be accessed here: wsop/tournaments/?groupid=1232

Key changes have been made in response to player feedback, and include:

* Places Paid: The majority of bracelet (and Deepstack) events will now payout 15% of the field, up 50% from what was WSOP standard. The minimum payout is expected to be one-and-a-half times the buy-in;

* In the money earlier: With payouts increasing, many events are expected to reach the money on Day 1;

* Start times: Moved up one hour; most (not all) events are on a new time schedule, with the first event of the day scheduled for 11 a.m. and the late events now to begin at 3 p.m. Deepstacks will be at 2 p.m., 5 p.m., 7 p.m. and 9 p.m.;

* Five times starting chips: All $10,000 buy-in events, including the Main Event, will now feature 50,000 in starting chips, up 66% from last year. This means all WSOP events now start with at least five times buy-in amount;

* Structure Tweaks: With some of the above changes, structures have also been modified slightly in an effort to aid events meeting scheduled duration. Players are encouraged to review structure sheets in advance. (One example: Instead of a 100-200 level followed by 100-200-25, there will now be just a 100-200-25 level);

* Playing into the money on Day 1 of Colossus: Each of the six starting flights of Colossus II will reach the money and begin processing payouts immediately within the flight versus a traditional hard bubble on Day 2 of a consolidated field. This will cut any congestion in payouts process significantly and also allow players who cash in a flight or surrendering their stack at the end of the flight, a chance to re-enter another flight and perhaps cash again within the same event;

* Registering for only one flight at a time: In order to better manage, multi-flight, multi-entry events (Colossus, Millionaire Maker, Crazy Eights & Little One for One Drop), players may only register for one flight at a time in advance. If they are eliminated in that flight, they may go to the cage to register for another flight if they choose;

* The number of official WSOP gold bracelet events is up one to 69.

Special events at this year's spectacular include:

* One Drop Charity