For the primary time, Michigan and Pennsylvania residents can be a part of Nevada and New Jersey residents in arms of the World Sequence of Poker’s (WSOP) on-line event, taking part in Sept. 10 by way of Oct. 18 on WSOP.com.
Billed as “the biggest on-line poker pageant on the planet,” the third annual US occasion will translate to extra entries for subsequent 12 months’s WSOP Event of Champions. That’s as a result of every WSOP gold bracelet winner may even earn a seat to the in-person event returning to Las Vegas in the summertime of 2023.
“Nobody needed to see this 12 months’s WSOP come to an finish,” mentioned Ty Stewart, Senior Vice President and Govt Director of the World Sequence of Poker, in a press release. “Nonetheless, in some ways, the return of WSOP On-line is much more thrilling.”
The 53rd WSOP on the Strip awarded $347.9 million in prize cash to just about 200,000 entrants, together with $10 million to Foremost Occasion winner Espen Jorstad of Norway.
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In Could this 12 months, Michigan joined Nevada, New Jersey, and Delaware within the Multi-State Web Gaming Affiliation (MSIGA). This enables for the pooling of participant liquidity throughout state traces, making for greater event fields and prizes. But it surely’s nonetheless early days, and for now, Michigan gamers can be ring-fenced inside state borders.
Pennsylvania has thus far declined to hitch the MSIGA compact, and as such, its tournaments may even be intrastate solely.
Within the WSOP on-line event, Michigan and Pennsylvania gamers can compete in six weekly bracelet tournaments every. Nevada and New Jersey residents can vie for 33 bracelets. No particular ensures have been introduced. Nonetheless, prize swimming pools of greater than $25 million have been awarded to Nevada and New Jersey residents in 2020 and 2021.
“On-line bracelets are simply as prestigious as reside event bracelets,” mentioned Daniel Negreanu, winner of six WSOP gold bracelets. “I’m glad that we’re creating a brand new custom to have a good time the web sport, and I’m striving so as to add my first WSOP On-line bracelet to my assortment.”
Worldwide residents can be a part of the event sequence on GGPoker.com from Aug. 14 to Sept. 27.
Purchase-ins will vary from $365 to $10,000, with WSOP.com’s on-line championship set for $1,000 on Oct. 16. That is scheduled to coincide with a sequence of notable Las Vegas tournaments. Out-of-state gamers are invited to take part within the sequence so long as their gadgets are geolocated inside Nevada’s borders. (WSOP encourages gamers to check their account and geolocation providers prematurely of becoming a member of any on-line tournaments.)
Scheduled highlights embody the next tournaments:
- $500 Monster Stack: Sunday, Sept. 11 (Nevada, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Michigan)
- $400 PLOSSUS 6-Max: Saturday, Sept. 24 (Nevada and New Jersey solely)
- $365 No Restrict Maintain’em Turbo Deepstack: Thursday, Sept. 29 (Nevada and New Jersey solely)
- $777 Fortunate 7’s: Sunday, Oct. 2 in (Nevada, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Michigan)
- $1,500 No Restrict Maintain’em: Tuesday, Oct. 4 (Nevada and New Jersey solely)
- $500 Huge 500 No Restrict Maintain’em: Sunday, Oct. 9 (Nevada, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Michigan)
- $1,000 WSOP On-line 2022 Championship-Sunday, October 16 (Nevada, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Michigan)
- $10,000 Tremendous Excessive Curler [1x Re-entry]: Tuesday, Oct. 18 (Nevada and New Jersey solely)
A full schedule is accessible at wsop.com/2022/on-line.
Philip Conneller contributed to this report.