WSOP Online Begins with 90 Gold Bracelets Available
The World Series of Poker is ready to award 90 WSOP gold bracelets online. Well, it will probably be 90 bracelets, though only 74 actual WSOP tournaments have been announced so far.
WSOP Online is offering 33 gold bracelet tournaments on GGPoker for a diverse, international group of players in many jurisdictions around the world. There is also a schedule of 33 events for the largest of the United States markets, which is WSOP-dot-com for Nevada and New Jersey players combined. There is a WSOP site that works on a GGPoker platform in the relatively new market of Ontario, Canada, and those players will have eight bracelets available. And finally, there will be bracelet events for US players in Pennsylvania and Michigan – two separate markets. Judging by the Ontario schedule and past WSOP Online series, each of those two states on WSOP-dot-com will offer eight events.
That will make 90 WSOP Online bracelets.
WSOP Senior Vice President and Executive Director Ty Stewart commented on the WSOP Online becoming a highly-anticipated annual series. “We’re the ‘World’ Series of Poker,” he said, noting that players unable to travel to live WSOP events have a unique opportunity to play for bracelets online.
WSOP Online on GGPoker Underway
The largest of the WSOP Online player pools is on GGPoker as it operates internationally. Not only is GGPoker available in many parts of Europe and the Americas (except the United States), its Natural8 platform makes the series available in many parts of Asia as well. For all of those players, they have:
- 33 online bracelet events
- August 20 to October 2
- $5K buy-in Main Event with $25M GTD (Day 2 on September 25)
In conjunction with the series, GGPoker is running a Continental Leaderboards competition to award its winner a VIP prize package worth $35K to the WSOP Paradise in the Bahamas in December.
| Event | Date | Buy-in | Tournament Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 20-Aug | $108 | NLHE Bankroll Builder Bounty |
| 2 | 21-Aug | $300 | NLHE Gladiators of Poker Opener ($2.5M GTD) (Day 2) |
| 3 | 22-Aug | $2,100 | NLHE Bounty Championship |
| 4 | 24-Aug | $840 | PLO Bounty |
| 5 | 26-Aug | $500 | NLHE Ladies Championship |
| 6 | 27-Aug | $1,500 | NLHE Monster Stack |
| 7 | 28-Aug | $210 | NLHE Mystery Millions ($10M GTD) (Day 2) |
| 8 | 29-Aug | $2,500 | Limit Hold'em Championship |
| 9 | 31-Aug | $315 | NLHE Bounty |
| 10 | 2-Sep | $1,050 | NLHe Beat the Pros Bounty |
| 11 | 3-Sep | $100 | NLHE Flip & Go ($1M GTD) (Go Stage) |
| 12 | 4-Sep | $500 | NLHE Mini Main Event ($2.5M GTD) |
| 13 | 5-Sep | $5,000 | NLHE 6-Handed Championship |
| 14 | 7-Sep | $500 | NLHE Big $500 Bounty |
| 15 | 9-Sep | $800 | NLHE Ultra Deepstack |
| 16 | 10-Sep | $1,050 | PLO Secret Bounty |
| 17 | 11-Sep | $1,500 | NLHE Millionaire Maker ($5M GTD) (Live Final 100) |
| 18 | 12-Sep | $5,000 | Short Deck Championship (3-Stack) |
| 19 | 14-Sep | $777 | NLHE Lucky Sevens Bounty 7-Handed |
| 20 | 16-Sep | $1,000 | NLHE Double Chance (2-Stack) |
| 21 | 17-Sep | $1,500 | NLHE GGMasters High Roller Freezeout |
| 22 | 18-Sep | $400 | NLHE Colossus ($3M GTD) (Day 2) |
| 23 | 18-Sep | $400 | PLOssus Bounty ($1M GTD) (Final Stage) |
| 24 | 19-Sep | $10,000 | PLO Championship |
| 25 | 21-Sep | $525 | NLHE Superstack Turbo Bounty |
| 26 | 23-Sep | $10,000 | NLHE Heads-Up Championship (128-Player Cap) |
| 27 | 24-Sep | $500 | PLO Fifty Stack |
| 28 | 25-Sep | $5,000 | NLHE Main Event ($25M GTD) (Day 2) |
| 29 | 26-Sep | $25,000 | NLHE GGMillion$ Super High Roller Championship |
| 30 | 28-Sep | $2,100 | NLHE 6-Handed Bounty |
| 31 | 30-Sep | $5,000 | PLO High Roller |
| 32 | 1-Oct | $1,500 | NLHE Turbo Bounty Closer |
| 33 | 2-Oct | $10,300 | NLHE GGMillion$ High Roller ($10M GTD) (Day 2) |
The full schedule, along with details about the promotion and Day 1 flights for the multi-day events listed above, is on GGPoker.
WSOP Ontario Mini-Series Underway
The province of Ontario in Canada receives its own mini bracelet series from the World Series of Poker. It is a small market but the first regional market for the WSOP using the GGPoker platform to power it. Anyone located in Ontario – residency not required – can compete in a few select events in the coming weeks.
- 8 online bracelet events
- August 21 to October 2
- $1K buy-in Main Event with $500K GTD
The series listing shows a guarantee on every prize pool, and buy-ins starting at just $100.
| Event | Date | Buy-in | Tournament Description | GTD |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 21-Aug | $300 | NLHE Gladiators of Poker Opener | $150,000 |
| 2 | 28-Aug | $210 | NLHE Mystery Millions | $200,000 |
| 3 | 4-Sep | $100 | NLHE Million$ Mini Main Event | $100,000 |
| 4 | 10-Sep | $2,013 | NLHE Millionaire Maker in Paradise (Live Final 100) | $6,720,000 |
| 5 | 11-Sep | $400 | PLOssus Bounty | $100,000 |
| 6 | 18-Sep | $400 | NLHE Colossus | $200,000 |
| 7 | 25-Sep | $1,000 | NLHE Main Event | $500,000 |
| 8 | 2-Oct | $525 | NLHE Closer | $150,000 |
Some of the above events have numerous starting flights. Those are listed on the GGPoker-Ontario page dedicated to the WSOP Online 2023.
WSOP Online US Starts September 10
Poker players located in America must wait until the second week of September to start their bracelet hunting online. The WSOP Online 2023 series begins on September 10 and runs for approximately five weeks. The only schedule available thus far is for the largest US state-regulated market of Nevada-New Jersey. The two states are linked by their multi-state online poker agreement and share player pools.
This schedule for Nevada and New Jersey (together) is the equivalent of the aforementioned GGPoker international WSOP Online. The player pools will be smaller, and there are no prize pool guarantees listed, but there will be the same number of bracelets available.
- 33 online bracelet events
- September 10 to October 17
- $1K buy-in Online Championship
Players will notice in the schedule that buy-ins start at $400 and climb to $5,300. Not a single event has a guarantee, including the Main Event, which is listed as the Online Championship in the US market.
| Event | Date | Buy-in | Tournament Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 10-Sep | $400 | NLHE Kickoff |
| 2 | 10-Sep | $2,000 | NLHE |
| 3 | 12-Sep | $3,200 | NLHE 6-Max High Roller |
| 4 | 14-Sep | $1,000 | PLO 6-Max |
| 5 | 16-Sep | $500 | NLHE Deepstack |
| 6 | 17-Sep | $888 | NLHE Crazy 8s |
| 7 | 17-Sep | $5,300 | NLHE 6-Max Super High Roller |
| 8 | 19-Sep | $500 | NLHE 6-Max |
| 9 | 21-Sep | $600 | NLHE Deepstack Turbo |
| 10 | 23-Sep | $2,500 | NLHE Freezeout |
| 11 | 24-Sep | $365 | NLHE Monster Stack |
| 12 | 24-Sep | $1,500 | NLHE 6-Max |
| 13 | 26-Sep | $500 | NLHE |
| 14 | 28-Sep | $1,000 | NLHE Bounty |
| 15 | 30-Sep | $500 | NLHE Turbo |
| 16 | 1-Oct | $400 | NLHE Colossus |
| 17 | 1-Oct | $2,000 | NLHE 6-Max |
| 18 | 2-Oct | $500 | NLHE |
| 19 | 3-Oct | $777 | NLHE Lucky 7s |
| 20 | 4-Oct | $400 | NLHE Ultra Deepstack |
| 21 | 5-Oct | $500 | NLHE Super Turbo |
| 22 | 7-Oct | $500 | NLHE Big $500 6-Max |
| 23 | 8-Oct | $600 | NLHE Deepstack Championship |
| 24 | 8-Oct | $3,200 | NLHE High Roller Championship |
| 25 | 10-Oct | $1,500 | NLHE 6-Max Bounty |
| 26 | 11-Oct | $400 | PLOssus 6-Max |
| 27 | 12-Oct | $1,000 | NLHE Freezeout |
| 28 | 13-Oct | $500 | NLHE 6-Max Turbo |
| 29 | 14-Oct | $600 | NLHE 6-Max Super Turbo Bounty |
| 30 | 15-Oct | $1,000 | NLHE Online Championship |
| 31 | 15-Oct | $5,300 | NLHE 6-Max Super High Roller Freezeout |
| 32 | 16-Oct | $400 | NLHE Deepstack |
| 33 | 17-Oct | $888 | NLHE Crazy 8s Fall Finale |
The WSOP-dot-com site in Nevada-New Jersey will be offering a special promotion to award five WSOP Paradise prize packages for the December series in December. All players who make a WSOP Online final table in this series will receive a freeroll ticket for a special October 19 tournament with those five packages as the prize pool.
WSOP Online for PA and MI Still Unlisted
It is likely that the Pennsylvania and Michigan WSOP Online series will each offer eight gold bracelet events. This would be consistent with the series of the past and with the 2023 WSOP summer schedule.
For some reason, the WSOP PA site shows that series as scheduled to begin on October 15, when the other US series is almost finished. And the landing page on WSOP-dot-com shows that this series will offer $150K guaranteed.
The WSOP MI landing page shows the same as for Pennsylvania, indicating that it, too, will guarantee $150K and start its action on October 15.
More information is (obviously) forthcoming.
