Every poker player who heads to Las Vegas for the World Series of Poker anticipates the release of the annual WSOP schedule.
According to an exclusive report from pokerfuse, the full 2025 WSOP schedule will be released early next week, with Monday, February 17th the likely date.
It was previously announced that the 2025 World Series of Poker will take place between Tuesday, May 27th, and Wednesday, July 16th, with the WSOP Main Event kicking off on Wednesday, July 2nd.
WSOP has also confirmed that the Mystery Millions, Millionaire Maker, and the Seniors Championship events will all return to this year’s schedule.
New Events for 2025?
It’s expected, with GGPoker’s acquisition of WSOP, that there will be a few events added to send the total number of tournaments up from 99 into the triple digits. However, nobody knows which tournaments will be added and what may be removed from the schedule.
There’s a hot rumor that the $1,000 Flip & Go by GGPoker will be removed and replaced by one or more progressive knockout (PKO) tournaments, a format that’s extremely popular online and on the WSOP Circuit.
GGPoker pro Daniel Negreanu said late last week that he believes a new $100,000 buy-in Pot-Limit Omaha event and a $25,000 PLO/NLH Mix event will be on the 2025 schedule.
New Events in 2024
Last year, WSOP added just under a dozen events, including the $10,000 Big O Championship, a $5,000 Seniors High Roller, the $1,500 Mixed No-Limit Hold’em/Pot Limit Omaha Double Board Bomb Pot, the $800 Independent Day Celebration, a $3,000 Mid-Stakes Championship, and the $600 PokerNews Deepstack Championship.
It’s expected that the Double Board Bomb Pot event will return, but only in PLO form.
2025 WSOP Online
Last year, there were harsh critics surrounding the WSOP Online schedule, as it wasn’t announced until virtually the last minute, forcing many players into an awkward position of selling action to live events without knowing if they would be multi-tabling online simultaneously.
Naturally, if you’re playing a $5,000 online tournament, you probably don’t want to be playing a live $600 tournament.
Pokerfuse claims that there should be around 25-30 online bracelets this summer. However, it’s unknown whether or not the online schedule will be included in the schedule release.
It’s also unclear whether Pennsylvania players will be able to compete with those from New Jersey, Nevada, and Michigan for online bracelets.
Though Pennsylvania was officially invited to join MSIGA last month, they still aren’t an official member and haven’t joined multi-state poker as of now. Their gaming laws align well with those already in MSIGA, so official acceptance could take place sooner rather than later.