The summer schedule for the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas has been revealed and among the list of 99 tournaments are the WSOP Main Event, Mystery Bounty events and the Poker Players Championship. This summer will likely see more players than ever descend on Sin City’s hotels and make their way to the Las Vegas Strip, where 99 WSOP gold bracelets will be up for grabs. The official WSOP Schedule of events truly has something for everybody.

When is the 2024 WSOP Main Event?

“Bigger and Better.” – Ty Stewart, WSOP Senior Vice President and Executive Director

This year’s World Series of Poker starts on May 28 and doesn’t conclude until July 17, meaning there are over seven weeks of action in the gambling capital of the world. Last year’s world champion, Atlanta’s Daniel Weinman, along with over 10,000 others who took part in 2023 will immediately be looking toward when this year’s WSOP Main Event takes place.

The 2024 WSOP Main again costs $10,000 to enter, just as it has since the third year of its amazing half-century run in 1972.  Kicking off on July 3 with Day 1a, there are once again four Day 1 flights in which you can enter, and, just as traditionally, you only get one chance. No rebuys, no-entries, no multiple flights. You’re one and done from the minute you put down that stack of ‘high society’.

In 2023, there were a record 10,043 entrants, with Weinman taking home a record $12.1 million top prize. The 2024 WSOP Main Event will take place between July 3 and 17, with two days scheduled for final table play, where the final nine usually play down to the last three before the end game plays out to millions on the last day of drama.

Each Day 1 flight starts at ‘high noon’ in 2024, as do Days 2abc and 2d, and Days 3 – 8 inclusive, whereupon the final nine will be reached. There has not yet been a start time announced for the final table.

“We’re proud to be Las Vegas’s original Main Event,” said Ty Stewart, the Senior Vice President and Executive Director of the World Series of Poker. “Records are made to be broken, so our motto this year is ‘Bigger and Better’. With our best schedule ever and more than 100 additional poker tables, we look forward to welcoming legends, first-timers and everyone in between. If you’re a poker player, there is simply no experience on earth like the World Series of Poker.”

Where Does the 2024 WSOP Take Place?

Once again, The Horseshoe and Paris Las Vegas will be the two venues used for the WSOP action. So popular since the World Series returned to the famous Las Vegas Strip, the two iconic venues will play host to all the drama and we’ll see many memories made and dreams fulfilled within the hallowed halls of the pair of Vegas cardrooms.

In fact, with so many different areas of each casino being utilised to the maximum, there’s every chance that many events will be split across both venues, with so many Day 1’s for major tournaments taking place in inside the Paris ‘Ballroom’ and the WSOP ‘Thunderdome’ used for final tables situated inside the Horseshoe Las Vegas, where the TV cameras will set up basecamp too.

Not that you have to wait until arriving in Las Vegas before playing a WSOP tournament. Satellites are running right now on GG Poker and last year the online poker site sent an incredible 774 players to Las Vegas via online qualifiers. Satelliting into the WSOP Main Event is the stuff of legend, with the 2003 WSOP Main Event winner Chris Moneymaker – now an ACR Pro – once winning the World Championship and $2.5 million top prize from an $80 PokerStars satellite. Both the Horseshoe and Paris Las Vegas casinos will be running WSOP Main Event satellites from July 2 until July 7 in a bid to break the record of 2023 just 12 months on.

Major WSOP Titles Return to Schedule

With so many bracelets on the line – more than ever before – what can you expect for your buck in 2024? Well, some superb WSOP events you know and love, as well as plenty of new and exciting tournaments to tickle your poker taste buds too. The iconic $50,000 Poker Players Championship makes its return, as do several $10,000-entry ‘Championship’ events, in variants such as Pot Limit Omaha (PLO) Razz and H.O.R.S.E. to name just three.

The series opens with two events running in tandem. The traditional $500-entry Casino Employees No-Limit Hold’em is technically Event #2 on the ticket – which won’t please certain aficionados! – with the $5,000 buy-in Champions Reunion NLHE 8-Max event kicking off on the same day which will award a $10,000 WSOP Main Event seat to anyone who knocks out a previous Main Event winner in the field. The officially named ‘$500 WSOP Kickoff’ begins on Wednesday May 29.

The next day sees the $1,000 Mystery Millions event – with a $1m guarantee and $1m top bounty prize – begin, and Mystery Bounty events have grown in stature in the past 12 months. That’s one of several events, joined by the Colossus, Salute to Warriors and ‘Lucky 7’s’ that are bound to fill up the most poker tables ever seen in Las Vegas – 700 across the three main tournament rooms at the Horseshoe and inside Paris Las Vegas.

On May 30, the WSOP $25,000 Heads-Up No-Limit Hold’em Championship kicks off, where the draw may well be the biggest cause of drama. Could we see a spicy match up in round 1 such as Phil Hellmuth versus his latest smack-talk victim Ike Haxton? Perhaps Matt Berkey and Daniel Negreanu will put their beef to bed at the felt instead.

New WSOP Events for 2024

In 2024, there is a clear intention from the WSOP to back up those words from Stewart to make things bigger and better. That extends to new events on the schedule, with a Pot Limit Omaha Mystery Bounty event (Event #86) where everyone is a bounty from the word go. Senior events are hugely respected by the WSOP and Event #65 is a newbie too, the $5,000-entry Seniors High Roller, which is sure to fill up.

On July 3 – surely one day early? – the $800 buy-in Independence Day Celebration Event #80 begins, while Event #89 is a $3,000-entry Mid-Stakes Championship, taking place o July 11 and is a brand-new event for 2024. So too is the attention-grabbing Event #4, a $1,500 buy-in Mixed NLHE/PLO Double Board ‘Bomb Pot’ event – explosive!

Here is the full schedule of events for this summer’s 55^th World Series of Poker in Las Vegas: