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2008 WSOP schedule announced

December 14, 2007

wsop_2007.jpgThe 2008 World Series of Poker will run from May 13th - July 16th and will again feature 55 events, although for the first time it begin and end with $10,000 buy-in World Championship events: a change from the past, when the Series would start with the $500 casino employees event.

The schedule also includes a total of eight $1,500 buy-in No-Limit Hold’em tournaments and a second start day has been added to cope with the huge number of players that these tournaments have traditionally attracted.

“This is our most exciting schedule yet,” said Jeffrey Pollack, commissioner of the WSOP. “Both amateur and professional poker players will have new opportunities to compete for a WSOP bracelet and can choose from the widest variety of games and buy-ins ever offered in one poker tournament and certainly at the WSOP.
The immense schedule will start with the $10,000 buy-in World Championship of Pot-Limit Hold’Em on 30th May and end almost six weeks later with the final table of the biggest game in Poker:the $10,000 buy-in World Championship of No Limit Texas Hold ‘Em, or “The Main Event” as it has become commonly known.

During that time 55 individual tournaments will be played and the winner of each of them will be presented with a unique WSOP gold bracelet and a share of a world record $160million prize pool.

The Rio Convention Center will be responsbile for staging the 2008 World Series of Poker although, after the unberable heat of last year, regular players will be pleased to hear of one change from last year’s event.

“The poker tent is gone,” confirmed Pollack. “We heard folks loud and clear last year, and there will be no tents used for tournament play at the 2008 WSOP.”

Registration for all events will being in February and can be done at the Rio or online at http://www.worldseriesofpoker.com .

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