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Wynn Summer Classic to Compete with WSOP 2022

Written by Jennifer Newell
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Jennifer Newell

The summer of poker in Las Vegas is taking shape.

Technically, the World Series of Poker set the parameters for the 2022 summer. Poker players and fans had the core dates for their schedules before this year even started – May 31 through July 19 – but a late-February announcement made it clearer. The 2022 WSOP would run May 31 to July 20 (an extra day!). Then, it would be up to other poker rooms in Las Vegas to set their summer schedules.

The Wynn Las Vegas is the first to release its summer poker tournament series schedule to play against or alongside (depends on one’s perspective) the WSOP.

Wynn Summer Classic

The Wynn on the Las Vegas Strip has turned its poker room into one of the most popular in Sin City. The past few years have shown its competitiveness and resiliency. And its growth has been undeniable.

The 2019 Wynn Summer Classic offered 42 events from May 30 to July 16 with $11.25M in guarantees. Due to its increasing popularity, the Wynn’s poker room was ready to step it up in 2020…until the pandemic. For all intents and purposes, let’s set aside 2020 altogether. But when live poker began to make a strong comeback in 2021, the Wynn was ready for it.

The problem with the poker summer of 2021 was that it was missing a key component: the World Series of Poker. With the WSOP pushed out to October and November 2021, the Wynn took a different angle for its summer offering. The Wynn Summer Classic offered just 33 events and about $20K in guarantees. However, it did introduce the Wynn Millions, that singular $10K buy-in tournament with a $10M guarantee that proved to be incredibly successful.

This year, the WSOP is back for the summer. The Wynn Summer Classic is back, too. It will run May 31 to July 20 with 32 events and $16.6M in guarantees. (An updated schedule reflects an additional NLHE tournament and the PLO and 8-Game Championship tournaments switched.)

2022 Wynn Summer Classic Schedule

The official schedule for this series does not provide numbered events. We only assigned event numbers for easier tracking.

The highlighted events in our chart reflect those highlighted on the official schedule. There isn’t a tournament labeled as the Main Event, but it seems that the No Limit Hold’em Championship (Event 17) with its $3.5M GTD prize pool would be it.

Event  Dates Buy-in Tournament Description Guarantee
1 May 31-June 3 $600 NLHE (3 flights) $200,000
2 June 3 $550 Seniors NLHE (50+) $50,000
3 June 4 $1,100 NLHE $200,000
4 June 5 $1,100 NLHE $200,000
5 June 6 $1,100 NLHE $200,000
6 June 7-10 $1,100 NLHE (3 flights) $1,000,000
7 June 10-11 $1,100 HORSE Championship $100,000
8 June 11 $1,100 NLHE $200,000
9 June 12-13 $1,100 Limit Omaha-8 Championship $100,000
10 June 13-17 $2,200 NLHE Mystery Bounty (4 flights) $2,500,000
11 June 18 $1,100 NLHE $200,000
12 June 19 $1,100 NLHE $200,000
13 June 19-20 $3,000 PLO Championship $250,000
14 June 20-21 $1,100 Seniors NLHE Championship (50+) $250,000
15 June 21-23 $1,600 NLHE (2 flights) $1,000,000
16 June 23 $550 PLO $100,000
17 June 24-27 $3,500 NLHE Championship (3 flights) $3,500,000
18 June 27 $5,200 NLHE Progressive Bounty $250,000
19 June 28-July 2 $1,600 NLHE (3 flights) $2,000,000
20 July 1-2 $3,000 8-Game Mix Championship $150,000
21 July 2 $550 NLHE $100,000
22 July 3 $550 NLHE $100,000
23 July 4 $550 NLHE $100,000
24 July 5 $550 Ladies NLHE $50,000
25 July 5-8 $1,100 NLHE (3 flights) $1,000,000
26 July 8 $1,100 NLHE $200,000
27 July 9 $1,100 NLHE $200,000
28 July 10 $1,100 NLHE $200,000
29 July 11 $550 NLHE $100,000
30 July 12 $1,100 NLHE $200,000
31 July 13-16 $1,600 NLHE Mystery Bounty (3 flights) $1,500,000
32 July 17 $550 NLHE $100,000
33 July 18-20 $500 Casino Employee NLHE Mystery Bounty (2 flights) $100,000

 

When the Wynn releases tournament structures for this series, we will post it here.

 

 

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