2011 WSOP Schedule Released

2011 WSOP by Dan on January 28, 2011

Caesers Entertainment have released the schedule of events for the 42nd annual World Series of Poker (WSOP).

The new WSOP schedule will include 58 events that include a number of new tournaments and some minor amendments to the overall programming of the famous tournament.

Recent successes in schedule changes, such as the $50,000 Poker Player’s Championship, have received further backing from the organizers and are back in to the 2011 calendar. Reportedly requested by a number of players, and one can only imagine that that means high-ranking ones, the Player’s Championship will be played in July. ESPN has reported that this schedule change is due to the high price of the event; this is reported to negatively affect the WSOP as a whole due to the busting of some players right at the start of the tournament and give winning players in other events a chance of investing their earnings in events such as this later in the tournament.

A full-on addition to the WSOP in 2011 will be the $25,000 Heads-Up No Limit Hold’em Championship which has earned the organizers’ favour over the $25,000 Six-Handed No Limit Hold’em event which statistics show to be one of last year’s most popular events.

Another controversial modification has been the overlapping of the $5,000 No Limit Hold’em event (#4), which begins at 1200 hours on 2 June with the $10,000 Pot Limit Omaha World Championship (Event #7) teeing-off the very next day at five in the afternoon. Being two events close to professional players’ hearts, concern has been shown that many pros will have to decide between one event or the other as a good run in the NLHe will mean they miss the PLO World Championship.

The $2,500 buy-in short-handed 10-game mix is a major new event that will include no-limit hold’em, seven-card razz, limit hold’em, limit Badugi, seven-card stud, no-limit deuce-to-seven draw lowball, Omaha eight-or-better, pot-limit Omaha, limit deuce-to-seven triple draw lowball, and seven-card stud eight-or-better. Beat that!

Accommodating the large numbers of players who wish to participate in the Main Event but not travel on the 4 July thereby missing Independence Day celebrations with families and loved-ones has meant the Main Event will now open its doors on 7 July.