Mark Gorman/PokerCentral Today marks the end of the first week of the World Series of Poker, which began on Sep. 30.
So far, seven events on the main schedule have played down to a winner. Six more are underway. There’s a lot of poker left to play before the series concludes on Nov. 23. Even so, we’ve already got a better picture of how the series is going to shape up.
It’s an usual year for the series in a number of ways: It’s taking place at a special time, much later in the year,
Players must provide proof of vaccination to participate,
A huge slate of online bracelet events already took place over the summer, and
It’s probably the last run for the series at the Rio, which has been its home for nearly two decades.
That led me to pose – and attempt to answer – five questions about the series one month before it kicked off. In a nutshell, those were:
> What will attendance be like? Probably down.
Will the Series get cancelled partway through due to COVID? Probably not. Will there be a dealer shortage? Maybe, but it will be mitigated by lower attendance. Will there be additional online bracelets? Probably not. Will the WSOP announce its new home? Call it a coin flip. So far, I can give you more concrete answers to three of those questions. The other two are still to be determined. 10 online bracelets on a separate schedule There’s one thing I called wrong, so let’s get that out of the way first. Online bracelets have been a part of the WSOP since 2015. However, between the summer’s two-pronged online bracelet series – one for US players, one for the international market – and the lack of an announcement by WSOP, I assumed that the fall series would be fully in person.WSOP proved me wrong on Oct. 1. That day, it announced that there would be one or sometimes two online bracelet events each Sunday for the duration of the series, with ten such events in total. Unlike in previous years, […]
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