This year’s WSOP is almost 4 months away. Yet we still can bring some exciting news about the 51st installment of poker’s most prestigious tournament series.
They decided to add a set of high buy-in events to their schedule they call “The High Roller Series”.
The 2020 WSOP Schedule – New High Rollers Added
This year, instead of releasing a full schedule at once, the World Series of Poker decided to announce events in “little droplets” instead. Thus they can maintain the hype every time a new event is confirmed.
So far, according to the official website, 80 events are on the 2020 WSOP schedule. That is fewer than last year’s 89. Since the number of WSOP tournaments tend to increase year after year, it’s likely they’re going to announce some more.
As for the new high rollers: nine new events have been announced with over $25,000 buy-ins.
The $50K Pot Limit Omaha event starts on July 7th. It’s a novelty tournament – no PLO event with stakes this high was ever played at the WSOP before.
However, it’s far from being the largest event on the 2020 WSOP schedule. That “title” goes to the $250K Super High Roller No Limit Hold’em 8-handed tourney which kicks off June 27th.
This is also a step up from last year, when the largest buy-in tourney was a $100K.
Also new on the menu is a $25K NLHE heads-up championship. Up until this year, the heads-up events at the World Series were “maxed out” at a $10,000 entry fee. We also have a returning classic: the $50K Poker Players Championship, the biggest mixed game event each year, is on the schedule as well.
Following last year’s controversy about re-entries, all of these high rollers have a limit on the amount of times a player can re-buy. Most of them allow just one extra bullet. However, two – the $25K heads-up NLHE and the $50K Poker Players Championship – doesn’t even allow one. They’re going to be classic freezeout tourneys – you lost the last chip in your stack, and you’re gone for good!
You can browse the High Roller Series’ events on the 2020 WSOP schedule below.
The History of WSOP High Rollers
This year’s biggest WSOP event, the $250K Super High Roller, is far from being the biggest buy-in event of all time in WSOP. They’ve put on multiple $1 million tournaments in the past.
The first one was held in 2012. Antonio Esfandiari won it for $18.347 million. That score held the world record for most money ever won in a poker tournament for 7 years. Last year, in August 2019, Bryn Kenney won over $20.5 million at the £1.05 million buy-in Triton Million in London.
The last $1 million Big One for One Drop was played in 2018 and was won by Justin Bonomo.
For over 3 decades, the $10,000 Main Event was the largest event on the schedule each year. That changed in 2006, when a $50,000 H.O.R.S.E. championship was added by the WSOP. The unusually large buy-in at the time attracted a lot of media attention. Chip Reese took down the historic event.
After his untimely death, the $50K H.O.R.S.E. winner has been presented with a trophy each year named after Chip Reese since 2008. Since then the event has been renamed the famous Poker Players Championship.
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