WSOP 2021 Online to Kick Off 33-Event US Series July 1
It is summer, one unlike any other for poker players. At this time in past summers, poker players would be starting the WSOP Main Event and fans would be hitting refresh on the live updates from home. This is usually peak poker season, one of the most exciting times of the poker year.
Last year, everything changed. Almost every part of the World Series of Poker was online. While that worked out for many people – actually allowed more people to compete for bracelets than ever before – it wasn’t the same.
This year, the WSOP had to change to adapt and to actually have a chance of happening. What took place in the summer is now scheduled for fall. And what had previously – prior to 2020 – been a predominantly live series of tournaments is now a hybrid of live and online action. At least for 2021, poker players are simply happy to look forward to any live series and play the rest of it online.
The first part of the 2021 WSOP is ready to go. It is the one aimed at players in the United States, though only to players in New Jersey and Nevada. Players don’t have to claim residency there; they need only be physically located within the borders of those two states (and be of legal age) to play. The 33-event series kicks off this week on WSOP.com and runs through the entirety of July.
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WSOP Online 2021 for US Players
The schedule of the US series will award 33 WSOP gold bracelets from July 1 through August 1. Buy-ins range from $333 to $7,777. Only one tournament – Event 33 – offers a guarantee on the prize pool, and it will be the largest in WSOP.com’s history at $1M.
The series is broken down into themes, for the most part, as follows:
Premiere Week
-Event 1 on July 1: $500 buy-in NLHE Big 500 Kick-Off
-Event 2 on July 2: $600 buy-in NLHE Monster Stack
-Event 3 on July 3: $500 buy-in NLHE Deepstack Turbo
-Event 4 on July 4: $500 buy-in NLHE Super Turbo
-Event 5 on July 5: $1K buy-in NLHE 8-Max
-Event 6 on July 6: $2K buy-in NLHE Deepstack
Micro Madness
-Event 7 on July 7: $777 buy-in NLHE Lucky 7s
-Event 8 on July 8: $888 buy-in NLHE Crazy Eights
-Event 9 on July 9: $400 buy-in NLHE 6-Max
-Event 10 on July 10: $333 buy-in NLHE
-Event 11 on July 11: $400 buy-in NLHE Ultra Deepstack
PLO Week
-Event 12 on July 12: $500 buy-in NLHE Deepstack Turbo
-Event 13 on July 13: $1K buy-in NLHE Freezeout
-Event 14 on July 14: $500 buy-in NLHE
-Event 15 on July 15: $5,300 buy-in NLHE High Roller Freezeout
-Event 16 on July 16: $600 buy-in PLO 6-Handed
-Event 17 on July 17: $400 buy-in NLHE 8-Max
-Event 18 on July 18: $1K buy-in NLHE North American Open
-Event 19 on July 19: $888 buy-in PLO Crazy Eights
-Event 20 on July 20: $3,200 buy-in NLHE High Roller
-Event 21 on July 21: $600 buy-in PLO 6-Handed
Themeless
-Event 22 on July 22: $600 buy-in NLHE Knockout
-Event 23 on July 23: $500 buy-in NLHE Turbo
-Event 24 on July 24: $400 buy-in NLHE Monster Stack
Double Bracelet Day
-Event 25 on July 25: $7,777 buy-in NLHE High Roller Lucky 7s
-Event 26 on July 25: $500 buy-in NLHE Big 500 Encore
Championship Week
-Event 27 on July 26: $1K buy-in PLO Championship
-Event 28 on July 27: $3,200 buy-in NLHE High Roller Championship
-Event 29 on July 28: $800 buy-in NLHE 8-Max Deepstack Turbo Championship
-Event 30 on July 29: $600 buy-in NLHE 6-Max Championship
-Event 31 on July 30: $500 buy-in NLHE Summer Saver
-Event 32 on July 31: $1K buy-in NLHE Championship
-Event 33 on August 1: $500 buy-in NLHE Grand Finale ($1M GTD)
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Overlapping Online Championships
Midway through the official WSOP 2021 series online, the WSOP website in New Jersey and Nevada will also host its monthly WSOP Circuit online. The July one is dubbed Bally’s Online Circuit – and on some WSOP pages the Summer Online Circuit – and will offer 12 gold WSOP rings July 16-27.
At least that’s what the website said. And it appears to be wrong.
By looking at the online poker client itself, those tournaments are not listed.
Instead, there seems to be an Online Championships series that is not advertised on the website or on social media accounts.
According to the WSOP.com lineup, it appears that the series will kick off on July 7 and offer 93 tournaments through July 27. Most events will offer rebuys and add-ons or regular reentries, but there are a few freezeouts. Buy-ins appear to range from $5 to $1K.
-$5 buy-ins (10) = each $5K GTD
-$10 buy-ins (10) = two $15K GTD, eight $10K GTD
-$11 buy-in (1) = $22,222 GTD
-$20 buy-ins (4) = three $15K GTD, one $20K GTD
-$30 buy-ins (7) = one $30K GTD, one $25K, five $20K GTD
-$50 buy-ins (15) = six $10K GTD, one $7,500, one $30K, five $15K, one $25K, one $20K GTD
-$55 buy-ins (3) = one $10K GTD, two $30K GTD
-$75 buy-ins (5) = one $10K GTD, one $12,500, one $15K, two $20K GTD
-$88 buy-ins (2) = each $15K GTD
-$100 buy-ins (19) = one $7,500 GTD, eleven $20K, two $15K, one $25K, one $30K, three $75K GTD
-$215 buy-in (1) = $30K GTD
-$250 buy-ins (2) = each $25K GTD
-$300 buy-in (1) = $15K GTD
-$320 buy-ins (5) = two $20K GTD, three $100K GTD
-$500 buy-ins (3) = two $25K GTD, one $50K GTD
-$1K buy-ins (5) = each $50K GTD
There are several welcome bonuses on WSOP.com, including $50 of free play, a 100% deposit match, and welcome week freerolls.
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