At long last, the 2020 WSOP is now underway. But the 51st annual series is taking place online, at WSOP.com (later at GGPoker), instead of the Rio in Las Vegas.
The shiny gold felt looks sharp as players embark on the 2020 WSOP. (Image: WSOP.com)
Cards were in the air for Event #1, $500 No-Limit Hold’em Kickoff, a rebuy tournament, at 3 pm PT. Registration remains open until 6:45 pm. At the time of publish, nearly 1,000 players had entered the series-opening bracelet event.
The 2020 WSOP is only available to players in New Jersey and Nevada for the 31 bracelet events on WSOP.com. Players outside the US, in countries with legal nationwide poker, can compete in the 54 GGPoker tournaments.
You don’t have to live in any of those jurisdictions, however. But you must be located within those jurisdictions at the time of play. If you get caught using a VPN elsewhere, per both site’s terms and conditions, you will be disqualified and could lose any money won.
What to Look for at the 2020 WSOP
Poker players won’t have to dodge the aggressive cell phone accessories sales people in the Rio hallways this summer. That may be the only positive to the global health pandemic. But that doesn’t mean there isn’t excitement for the online bracelet series.
The 85-event series will award 85 gold bracelets, the same pieces of jewelry won at the annual live World Series of Poker. This year, however, the stakes are lower than normal, and the poker variants are limited to Omaha and Texas hold’em. You won’t find any mixed game bracelet events this summer as the poker sites used don’t spread those forms of poker.
From July 1-19, WSOP.com will host one daily bracelet event. GGPoker then joins the party on July 19, and the series will feature 2-3 events in most days throughout the remainder of the month. The 2020 WSOP Online Bracelet Series on the global poker site encompasses 54 events, including the controversial $5,000 Main Event.
The Main Event guarantees $25 million, set to become the largest prize pool in online poker history. But many poker players on social media oppose the structure which allows players to reenter twice, a stark contrast compared to the annual $10,000 live Main Event in Las Vegas, a freezeout tournament.
WSOP.com Series Notes
The chat feature on WSOP.com was eliminated last week ahead of the 2020 WSOP online series. And the poker site is keeping things tight-lipped on the reason. A customer service rep told CardsChat News merely, “it was a managerial decision,” and couldn’t provide additional information.
It’s unknown why the chat feature was removed or if it will be non-existent throughout the entirety of WSOP.com’s 31 bracelet events.
CardsChat also reached out to the poker site to address another concern poker players have: Can you play from a Las Vegas hotel if others on the same Wifi are also playing? That answer, we were told, is yes. WSOP.com doesn’t prevent multiple players from accessing it’s poker platform if others are playing at the same time using the same network.
The second event of the 2020 WSOP — $1,000 No-Limit Hold’em 8-Handed Deepstack — begins at 3 pm PT on Thursday. Players can enter up to three times until 6:55 pm.
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