WSOP Online to Offer 34 Summer Bracelets
The first few days of February were a bit chaotic, as amidst the regular flow of news, the World Series of Poker announced its 2023 WSOP summer action. There were no complaints about the timing, though, because it happened earlier than in the last several years.
The primary schedule of events put 95 live events on the schedule, each of those taking place at Horseshoe Las Vegas (formerly Bally’s) and/or Paris Las Vegas. The new home of the WSOP found great success in 2022, and Caesars is anxious to host the 2023 games. The 95 events run from May 30 through July 18, complete with everything from a $300 buy-in Gladiators event to a $250K buy-in High Roller. And, of course, the Main Event will be the series’ centerpiece, starting on July 3.
In addition to those 95 events, though, there was a listing for WSOP Online bracelets. There will be 34 of them across four states in America.
WSOP Online
Caesars is using the WSOP-dot-com website in the few states in which it operates to give poker players the chance to win bracelets online. This has been happening for years, only with an expanded schedule each year.
This year, there will be 34 online events with gold bracelets up for grabs.
Nevada and New Jersey share a player pool via the Multi-State Internet Gaming Agreement (MSIGA), so one set of tournaments serves both sites at once. That series offers 20 tournaments, more than others because so many people are in Nevada for the World Series of Poker…and they play online, too.
That list is:
| Nevada/New Jersey Summer 2023 | ||||
| Event | Date | Buy-in | Tournament Description | Reentry? |
| 1 | 1-Jun | $333 | NLHE Triple Treys Summer Tip Off | 3 |
| 2 | 4-Jun | $500 | NLHE Bankroll Builder | 3 |
| 3 | 4-Jun | $1,000 | NLHE Deepstack | 2 |
| 4 | 6-Jun | $600 | NLHE Ultra Deepstack | 2 |
| 5 | 11-Jun | $400 | NLHE 8-Max | 2 |
| 6 | 18-Jun | $500 | NLHE Turbo | 2 |
| 7 | 18-Jun | $500 | PLO 8-Max | 3 |
| 8 | 20-Jun | $3,200 | NLHE High Roller | 2 |
| 9 | 22-Jun | $1,000 | PLO Championship | 2 |
| 10 | 25-Jun | $400 | NLHE Ultra Deepstack | 2 |
| 11 | 27-Jun | $888 | NLHE Crazy 8s | 2 |
| 12 | 2-Jul | $500 | NLHE Deepstack | 2 |
| 13 | 3-Jul | $5,300 | NLHE High Roller Championship (final table live) | 1 |
| 14 | 6-Jul | $400 | NLHE Turbo | 3 |
| 15 | 8-Jul | $1,000 | NLHE Championship | 2 |
| 16 | 9-Jul | $600 | NLHE Online Deepstack Championship | 2 |
| 17 | 11-Jul | $5,300 | NLHE 6-Max Championship | 1 |
| 18 | 15-Jul | $2,000 | NLHE Freezeout Championship | 0 |
| 19 | 16-Jul | $500 | NLHE Summer Saver | 3 |
| 20 | 16-Jul | $777 | NLHE Lucky 7s | 3 |
Michigan has joined MSIGA, but the WSOP site has not connected Michigan’s players to Nevada and New Jersey yet. That means Michigan – just like Pennsylvania – remains separate. There is no indication that the situation will change before the summer.
With that, the WSOP set the same seven-event schedule for Pennsylvania and Michigan players.
| Michigan & Pennsylvania Summer 2023 | |||
| Date | Buy-in | Tournament Description | Reentry? |
| 4-Jun | $500 | NLHE Bankroll Builder | 3 |
| 11-Jun | $400 | NLHE PKO 8-Max | 2 |
| 18-Jun | $500 | NLHE Turbo | 2 |
| 25-Jun | $400 | NLHE PKO Deepstack | 2 |
| 2-Jul | $600 | NLHE Deepstack | 2 |
| 9-Jul | $300 | NLHE | 2 |
| 16-Jul | $500 | NLHE Summer Saver | 3 |
More Online Bracelets Likely
Last year, the WSOP offered a small series of online bracelet events in Ontario, Canada. That is another ring-fenced market in which the WSOP-dot-com site operates, though on a different platform than in the American states.
Ontario players had three online bracelet events in 2022. It is likely that they will see a schedule of at least three this year as well.
GGPoker is big WSOP partner. Last year, GGPoker offered 33 online summer bracelet events for players in countries where they can access GG. (The US is not one of them.) That number – 33 – was the same as the number of tournaments for Nevada and New Jersey players in 2022 as well. Considering that number is now 20 in 2023, expect GGPoker to announce a smaller schedule this summer, too. GGPoker and WSOP usually match their US and international market bracelet schedules, at least in the number of tournaments available.
There will likely be announcements about these markets in the near future.
