Greater? Improved? Bounty? What Could Be Different in the 2022 WSOP Plan?

With 111 days to go until eventually the 2022 Entire world Sequence of Poker the poker world is eagerly awaiting the comprehensive release of the WSOP timetable.

When will the 2022 WSOP schedule be produced? Sources say it could be sooner than you feel, but though we sit and wait around, PokerNews thought we could choose a seem at the factors that could be various in this year’s timetable in contrast to in the previous.

Of course, there are several distinctions we previously know about. Following months of rumours, the premier and most historic pageant of poker is moving to the Strip this yr, with Hollywood movie star Vince Vaughn the grasp of ceremonies.

Then came the information that Bally’s will be rebranded to the Horseshoe in time for the Series, conjuring up recollections of the golden age of WSOP poker.

But back to the routine. Here are some variances that we assume may be on the cards for 2022.

More substantial Location Signifies More substantial Fields

When final year’s World Series of Poker didn’t break any attendance data (the 2021 Key Event was only the tenth-greatest in history), there is loads of speculation that the move from the Rio to the Horseshoe and Paris could lead to more substantial fields for this year’s Sequence.

For reference, the greatest event in WSOP hisotry — in truth in poker record — was the 2019 Large 50, received by Femi Fashakin for just over $1.1 million.

The new venues bring with them amplified house for poker tables, and hence the potential for the WSOP to host more substantial and maybe greater tournaments. Could a return of the Massive 50 be on the cards? Or have the WSOP set their sights even higher…

The Return of the $1m Big A person For Just one Fall

How significant could they set their sights? Nicely, how about the most significant invest in-in party in WSOP record – the $1,000,000 buy-in Significant A person For One Fall. The tournament was final held in 2018, with Justin Bonomo riding the wave of good results that yr to triumph. The first Significant A person for Just one Fall was held in 2012, and was followed two decades later on with a second.

The 3rd was held in Monte-Carlo as aspect of the Monte-Carlo Just one Fall Extravaganza, but it returned forward of Bonomo’s triumph in 2018. With the 2020 WSOP not using location, and the 2021 poker landscape maybe much too uncertain to hold a seven-figure obtain-in match, all signs point to the WSOP bringing back again the biggest get-in of them all to christen the new location.

“Novelty” Old-College Horseshoe Tournaments

The Horseshoe is an previous-faculty name. The birthplace of the WSOP again in the 1970 noticed the greats of the match wander via their doorways as the story of the WSOP wrote its first chapters. Now the fabled identify of Horseshoe has returned, and we feel that the WSOP might honor its heritage with a novelty previous-university event or two.

Freezeout tournaments have very long been element of the WSOP schedule, with the Main Celebration most likely the most famous freezeout tournament of them all. In 2021, the WSOP launched the Corridor of Fame Bounty, won by Ole Schemion, which invited some of the most significant names to enter with bounties on their head.

Will the Hall of Fame Bounty return? Or will a new format tempt the WSOP organizers?

The 1st WSOP Secret Bounty

There was speak of a mystery bounty taking area at the 2020 WSOP prior to its cancellation, but this is in all probability the prediction PokerNews is the most confident about. Poker lovers have found the good results of the Secret Bounty format at yet another Vegas site, with the Wynn holding not 1 but two Mystery Bounty tournaments in 2021 to rave reviews.

WSOP organizers will be excited at the considered of a repeat of the minute back in Oct 2021, when Omaha truck driver Donald Nimneh drew out a $250,000 bounty envelope.

A Enormous Welcome Event

The 2021 WSOP opening party was dubbed The Reunion and was received by Very long Ma. There is no talk of the Reunion returning, but a comparable tournament with an equally memorable name is no question in the performs.

The opening weekend of this year’s WSOP will be an remarkable just one, as far more and extra players truly feel cozy returning to the felt following two or even a few years absent. WSOP organizers will no doubt be wanting to make the opening weekend 1 to keep in mind, and to get the Sequence off to a great start out in its new property.

Four (or more!) Setting up Flights of the Primary Occasion

The 2021 WSOP Most important Celebration saw four starting flights, with two more additional just after vacation restrictions to the United States have been eased. We have currently spoken about the enhanced place that the WSOP will have to do the job with for 2022, and it will be attention-grabbing to see whether the WSOP sticks with the 4 originally scheduled for 2021, or even remains with 6 possibilities for gamers to enter the most well known poker match of them all.

Will Ensures Make a Comeback?

WSOP tournaments and assures are a unusual occurence. Absent from Las Vegas, the WSOP Europe had €12 million in assures last yr and the GGPoker WSOP Principal Event in 2020 created an eye-watering prize pool of $27.6 million, after originally guaranteeing a prize pool of €25 million.

But in Las Vegas, ensures at the WSOP are couple and far between. The 2021 WSOP had a person (The Reunion) and the 2019 WSOP also had the one warranty, with the $600 Deepstack Championship guaranteeing $500,000 and a WSOP Principal Occasion seat to the winner.

Could we see the return of very first prize assures to the WSOP, not noticed because Martin Jacobson’s 2014 WSOP Main Occasion victory that netted him a neat $10,000,000.

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Will Shillibier is primarily based in the United Kingdom. He graduated from the College of Kent in 2017 with a B.A. in German, and then studied for a NCTJ Diploma in Sporting activities Journalism at Sportsbeat in Manchester. He formerly worked as a freelance are living reporter, and video presenter for the Environment Poker Tour.