The 2024 World Poker Tour World Championship will get underway this week at Wynn Las Vegas. This 12 months’s sequence options a number of notable adjustments from latest years, together with the choice to forego a assure for the $10,400 buy-in no-limit maintain’em WPT World Championship. This change comes after the record-setting $40,000,000 assure positioned in 2023 was not met although the occasion drew 3,835 entries for the biggest discipline in WPT essential tour historical past. Even with that spectacular turnout, the match had an overlay of greater than $2.4 million.
This 12 months’s WPT WC is ready for Dec. 14-21, with three beginning flights permitting a single entry obtainable per participant per flight. After that, there can be 5 extra days of combined-field motion, culminating with the crowning of this 12 months’s champion.
The $1,100 buy-in WPT Prime Championship additionally returns for a 3rd time, The $5 million assured match is slated to run from Dec. 8-14.
The headlining new providing for 2024 is a record-setting $5,000,000 freeroll match, the biggest of its type. The occasion will award $1,000,000 to its eventual champion.
The freeroll occasion will run from Dec. 13-14, and can award 100 seats into the $10,400 championship occasion.
“We have crafted an incredible schedule for this year’s World Championship, featuring more than 60 tournaments and satellites,” stated Ryan Beauregard, Executive Director of Poker Operations at Wynn Las Vegas. “I’m confident that the loyal fanbase of Wynn Las Vegas and WPT, as well as more than 500 qualifiers and satellite winners, will make the 2024 WPT World Championship another rousing success.”
(*3*) stated WPT CEO and President Adam Pliska. “In celebration of the launch of ClubWPT Gold, we’re aiming for another first for the poker world with the largest freeroll ever offered.”
Check out the total schedule in Card Player’s match database, or by clicking on the picture beneath.
Photos supplied by WPT.
