World Series of Poker Announce 2025 Schedule

Written by: Paul Seaton February 18, 2025 9 min read Affiliate Disclaimer

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The World Series of Poker (WSOP) have announced the schedule for this summer’s series Las Vegas between May 27 – July 16 and there are 100 bracelet events with something for everyone. From the WSOP Main Event to unique new events, buy-ins that suit all bankrolls are catered for as the greatest poker show on Earth prepares to return to the Big Top that is Las Vegas, Nevada.

The WSOP Main Event, the $50,000 Poker Players Championship and a Super High Roller event with a $250,000 entry fee all jostle for position among 100 bracelet events this summer. The World Series of Poker have announced the full schedule and with new events such as the ‘Battle of the Ages’ joining established multi-table tournaments such as the Colossus and Monster Stack, the WSOP summer stars here!

Horseshoe and Paris are Shared Hosts Again

“The WSOP Main Event was bigger than ever!”

The 56^th annual WSOP in Las Vegas, Nevada is sure to be a poker spectacular. Held at both the Horseshoe Las Vegas and Paris Las Vegas for the fourth consecutive year, the iconic venues will play host to all 100 bracelet events on the Las Vegas Strip. This year’s opening event is the $1,000-entry Mystery Millions, which has five Day 1 flights, a $1 million top prize and $1m top bounty prize to boot.

“We had hoped to continue to break records last year, and we did – the WSOP Main Event was bigger than ever,” Ty Stewart, Chief Executive Officer of WSOP, said in announcing this year’s schedule in the official WSOP press release. “In 2025, the WSOP schedule is better again, with something for everyone who loves the game. There’s nothing like summer in Las Vegas and we’re ready to welcome players to the biggest and best WSOP of all time!”

Last year, online poker players at GGPoker qualified for the action in their drives, with over 1,000 players in the record-breaking Main Event taking their seats due to winning tickets on the biggest poker site in the world. There will be a huge satellite schedule leading up to the 2025 WSOP on both GG and WSOP.com and the GGPoker Global Ambassador Daniel Negreanu can’t wait to try to win his eighth WSOP bracelet after taking down the $50,000 Poker Players Championship for over a million bucks in 2024.

“GGPoker’s Road to Vegas allows poker enthusiasts all over the world to make their way to Las Vegas and follow in the footsteps of their poker heroes by taking aim at WSOP gold. Join us in 2025!” he said.

When Does the 2025 WSOP Main Event Take Place?

“I can’t win and I think it hurts the older players.” ~ Phil Hellmuth, 1989 world champion.

The WSOP Main Event is the biggest event of the 100 on the ticket this year and takes place between July 2 and 16 in 2025. Last year, Jonathan Tamayo courted controversy when he won the record-breaking 2024 iteration for $10m after regularly consulting his friends on the rail with a computer targeting GTO plays.

This year’s $10,000-entry freezeout tournament is sure to be a classic, and with the World Championship the defining event since the early 70s, this year’s opening day in the Main Event – Day 1A – is scheduled for July 2. There are four Day 1 flights, with the final playing to a winner from the final three on July 16.

Amazingly, the 1989 world champion and legendary 17-time bracelet winner Phil Hellmuth says he won’t be taking part.

“It’s turned into an endurance test – I don’t think it’s measuring skill,” he said upon the release of the schedule. “I know that I can’t do that – I’m 60 years old. 80% of players would say you need a day off during the Main Event. Playing from noon until midnight, it’s just exhausting. I can’t win and I think it hurts the older players more than the younger players.”

The Poker Brat may not be making his traditional grandiose entrance but the WSOP Main Event is still going to be a massive tournament.

What Other WSOP Events Are on the Schedule?

Event #2, the $500-entry Industry Employees NLHE event, used to be the opening event but now takes place on the opening day along with the $1,000-entry Mystery Million event, officially Event #1 on the board. With $50,000, $100,000 and $250,000 high rollers, a $1,500 buy-in Pot-Limit Omaha Double Board Bomb Pot and a $1,000 buy-in ‘Battle of the Ages’ event, there’s something for everyone.

The latter takes place in No-Limit Hold’em across two days from June 22 and will see players aged 50 and over compete on Day 1A, while players under 50 will do clash on Day 1B, with the surviving players from the ‘young’ and ‘old’ groups coming together to play down to a winner on June 23. What if you turn 50 on the day of entry? Letters on a postcard to Jack Effel on that one.

The $1,500-entry Millionaire Maker event is scheduled to start on June 18, while the $50,000 buy-in Poker Players Championship – which Daniel ‘Kid Poker’ Negreanu won in 2024, begins on June 24. A $10,000 buy-in Pot-Limit Omaha Championship (June 28) and $3,000-entry T.O.R.S.E event (July 11) will please mixed game players and the ‘Summer Celebration’ (July 2) event kicks off for $800 on the same day players can buy-in to the 56^th annual WSOP Main Event for $10,000.

Dan Negreanu — Daniel Negreanu (pictured) won his seventh WSOP bracelet in 2024.

HoW to Follow the 2025 WSOP

There will be live satellites, deepstack daily events and other promotional live tournaments taking place at the Horseshoe and Paris in Las Vegas, along with WSOP.com and GGPoker hosting online satellites in the lead up to and during the WSOP. In 2024, the world’s biggest online poker room GGPoker brought 1,000 players to the 2024 Main Event via their qualifying events and this number is bound to increase in 2025.

The WSOP also confirmed that the 2025 WSOP Europe festival will return to King’s Casino in Rozvadov on the Czech-German border from September 12 to October 8, with 15 WSOP bracelet events, including the €10,350-entry WSOP Europe Main Event – perhaps The Poker Brat might try to win his second title in this event.

With regular broadcaster PokerGO returning as live stream partners of the WSOP throughout the summer, there will be a full PokerGO broadcast schedule released in the build-up to the 56^th annual WSOP.

Here is the full WSOP 2025 schedule with 100 gold bracelets on offer (all times PST):

Start Date	Time	#	Tournament Details	Entry
Tue May 27	Noon	1	Mystery Millions	$1,000
Tue May 27	2pm	2	Industry Employees No-Limit Hold’em	$500
Wed May 28	Noon	3	8-Max NLHE	$5,000
Wed May 28	2pm	4	8-Max Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better	$1,500
Thu May 29	Noon	5	8-Max Pot-Limit Omaha	$5,000
Thu May 29	2pm	6	Seven Card Stud	$1,500
Fri May 30	Noon	7	Heads Up NLHE Championship (64 player max)	$25,000
Fri May 30	2pm	8	6-Max Dealers Choice	$1,500
Sat May 31	2pm	9	8-Max Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better Championship	$10,000
Sat May 31	10am	10	NLHE Deepstack	$600
Sun June 1	Noon	11	8-Max NLHE Mystery Bounty	$10,000
Sun June 1	2pm	12	7-Max No-Limit 2-7 Lowball Draw	$1,500
Mon June 2	10am	13	6-Max NLHE	$1,500
Mon June 2	Noon	14	8-Max High Roller PLO/NLH Mix	$25,000
Mon June 2	2pm	15	7-Max PLO Hi-Lo 8, Omaha Hi Lo 8 & Big O Mix	$1,500
Tue June 3	10am	16	8-Max PLO Deepstack	$600
Tue June 3	Noon	17	No-Limit Hold’em	$2,000
Tue June 3	2pm	18	6-Max Dealers Choice Championship	$10,000
Wed June 4	10am	19	NLHE Colossus	$500
Wed June 4	Noon	20	NLHE Shootout	$1,500
Wed June 4	2pm	21	8-Max PLO Hi-Lo 8 or Better	$1,500
Thu June 5	Noon	22	6-Max NLHE High Roller	$25,000
Thu June 5	2pm	23	Badugi	$1,500
Fri Jun 6	Noon	24	8-Max PLO Double Board Bomb Pot	$1,500
Fri Jun 6	2pm	25	Seven Card Stud Championship	$10,000
Sat Jun 7	Noon	26	8-Max NLHE High Roller	$25,000
Sat Jun 7	2pm	27	Big O (Five Card PLO Hi-Lo 8 or Better)	$1,500
Sun Jun 8	10am	28	8-Max NLHE/PLO Deepstack Mix	$600
Sun Jun 8	Noon	29	No-Limit Hold’em	$2,500
Sun Jun 8	2pm	30	7-Max No-Limit 2-7 Lowball Draw Championship	$10,000
Mon June 9	10am	31	8-Max NLHE Deepstack	$800
Mon June 9	Noon	32	8-Max NLHE High Roller	$50,000
Mon June 9	2pm	33	8-Max Limit Hold’em	$1,500
Tue June 10	10am	34	NLHE Super Turbo Bounty ($500 Bounty)	$1,500
Tue June 10	Noon	35	NLHE Freezeout	$3,000
Tue June 10	2pm	36	8-Max PLO Hi-Lo 8 or Better Championship	$10,000
Wed June 11	10am	37	NLHE Monster Stack	$1,500
Wed June 11	Noon	38	NLHE High Roller	$100,000
Wed June 11	2pm	39	8-Max H.O.R.S.E.	$1,500
Thu June 12	Noon	40	NLHE Seniors High Roller	$5,000
Thu June 12	2pm	41	8-Max Limit Hold’em Championship	$10,000
Fri June 13	Noon	42	8-Max PLO	$1,000
Fri June 13	2pm	43	Razz	$1,500
Sat June 14	2pm	44	Big O Championship (Five Card PLO Hi-Lo 8 or Better)	$10,000
Sun June 15	10am	45	NLHE Salute to Warriors	$500
Sun June 15	Noon	46	NLHE Super High Roller	$250,000
Sun June 15	2pm	47	8-Max Omaha Hi-Lo 8 & Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo 8 Mix	$2,500
Mon June 16	10am	48	Seniors NLHE Championship (50+)	$1,000
Mon June 16	Noon	49	6-Max NLHE	$3,000
Mon June 16	2pm	50	Razz Championship	$10,000
Tue June 17	Noon	51	8-Max PLO High Roller	$25,000
Tue June 17	2pm	52	NLHE Freezeout	$1,500
Wed June 18	10am	53	NLHE Millionaire Maker	$1,500
Wed June 18	Noon	54	8-Max PLO	$1,500
Wed June 18	2pm	55	8-Max H.O.R.S.E. Championship	$10,000
Thu June 19	2pm	56	Mixed Triple Draw Lowball (2-7, A-5, Badugi)	$2,500
Fri June 20	2pm	57	PLO High Roller	$50,000
Sat June 21	2pm	58	7-Max Nine Game Mix	$3,000
Sun June 22	10am	59	NLHE Battle of the Ages (Over 50> Flight A/<50 Flight B)	$1,000
Sun June 22	2pm	60	6-Max Limit Hold’em	$3,000
Mon June 23	10am	61	NLHE Freezeout	$500
Mon June 23	Noon	62	6-Max NLHE	$5,000
Mon June 23	2pm	63	6-Max Limit 2-7 Lowball Triple Draw	$1,500
Tue June 24	10am	64	NLHE Super Seniors (60+)	$1,000
Tue June 24	Noon	65	NLHE Tag Team ($1,000 per team)	$1,000
Tue June 24	2pm	66	7-Max Poker Players Championship	$50,000
Wed June 25	10am	67	NLHE Gladiators of Poker	$300
Wed June 25	Noon	68	No-Limit Hold’em	$3,000
Wed June 25	2pm	69	Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo 8 or Better	$1,500
Thu June 26	Noon	70	Ladies NLHE Championship (*$10,000 non-female entry)	$1,000*
Thu June 26	2pm	71	6-Max Limit 2-7 Lowball Triple Draw Championship	$10,000
Fri June 27	Noon	72	8-Max NLHE Super Turbo Bounty ($3,000 Bounty)	$10,000
Fri June 27	2pm	73	6-Max Eight Game Mix	$1,500
Sat June 28	2pm	74	8-Max PLO Championship	$10,000
Sun June 29	10am	75	NLHE Mini Main Event	$1,000
Sun June 29	2pm	76	6-Max Mixed Big Bet Event	$2,500
Mon June 30	2pm	77	Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo 8 or Better Championship	$10,000
Tue July 1	10am	78	NLHE PokerNews Deepstack Championship	$600
Tue July 1	2pm	79	PLO High Roller	$100,000
Wed July 2	10am	80	NLHE Summer Celebration	$800
Wed July 2	Noon	81	NLHE Main Event World Championship	$10,000
Wed July 2	2pm	82	6-Max Eight Game Mixed Championship	$10,000
Thu July 3	2pm	83	NLHE Freezeout	$2,500
Fri July 4	5pm	84	No-Limit Holdem	$1,000
Sun July 6	10am	85	NLHE Ultra Stack	$600
Tue July 8	10am	86	$1,000 Mystery Bounty Pot-Limit Omaha	$1,000
Tue July 8	2pm	87	NLHE Super Turbo Bounty ($1,500 Bounty)	$5,000
Wed July 9	Noon	88	8-Max NLHE High Roller	$50,000
Wed July 9	2pm	89	NLHE Mid-Stakes Championship	$3,000
Thu July 10	10am	90	7-Max NLHE Lucky 7’s	$777
Thu July 10	Noon	91	6-Max Pot-Limit Omaha	$1,500
Fri July 11	Noon	92	NLHE Poker Hall of Fame Bounty	$1,979
Fri July 11	2pm	93	8-Max T.O.R.S.E.	$3,000
Sat July 12	2pm	94	6-Max NLHE Championship	$10,000
Sun July 13	10am	95	NLHE Deepstack	$800
Sun July 13	2pm	96	6-Max Pot-Limit Omaha	$3,000
Mon July 14	10am	97	NLHE The Closer	$1,500
Mon July 14	2pm	98	8-Max High Roller H.O.R.S.E.	$25,000
Tue July 15	2pm	99	8-Max No-Limit Hold’em	$5,000
Wed July 16	10am	100	NLHE Super Turbo	$1,000

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