2017 World Series of Poker Dates Announced

May 30 marks the start of the 48th World Series of Poker (WSOP) at the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas.

“We want to wish everyone Happy Holidays and best wishes for a safe and successful 2017,” said WSOP Executive Director Ty Stewart in a release. “We are busy trying to finalize the entire 2017 WSOP schedule. We anticipate a similar series to last year with a few new wrinkles, but ensuring a broad array of options to satisfy every potential participant.”

The longest-running tournament series, will run through July 17 with gold bracelet events, satellites, cash games and daily deepstack tournaments three times a day for 49 consecutive days.

The final nine players will play down to the WSOP Main Event on July 17.

The 2017 schedule will feature Colossus III, the world’s largest live poker event as the opening weekend event, a three-day $565 buy in reentry no-limit hold’em tournament from June 2 through June 4. During its first two years, the event had 43,987 entries.

Events back on the schedule from prior years include Millionaire Maker, Monster Stack, Little One for ONE DROP, Seniors Event and Ladies Championship.

The $10,000 buy in No-Limit Hold’em WSOP Main Event Championship will kick off July 8 and run across 10 consecutive days, until July 17. The starting flights are as follows: July 8, July 9 and July 10.

The first event on the schedule is the Casino …

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