Full WSOP schedule released

[Dan Druff]

As you might remember, about 2 weeks ago they accidentally leaked the schedule of big-buyin events at the 2014 WSOP. You can read about that in this thread: http://pokerfraudalert.com/forum/sho...-10m-guarantee

Now they have finally posted the entire schedule.

http://www.wsop.com/tournaments/

There are 65 tournaments, starting on May 27 with the Casino Employees Event. The first "open" event is on May 28, which is the $25,000 Mixed-Max NL Holdem. $1k PLO also takes place the same day.

The first "donkament" takes place on May 29, which is $1k NL Holdem.

If you want a really huge field, play the Millionaire Maker event on May 31st ($1500 buyin) with the $1 million guaranteed first prize. It had over 6,343 entrants last year, and wreaked havoc upon the WSOP because Caesar's didn't expect those numbers (even though everyone was predicting it). I cashed in that one last year, but not for very much.

The WSOP continues to thumb its nose at Limit Holdem. There aren't any Limit Holdem events until June 20 ($1500 Limit Holdem), and the only other event is the $10,000 Limit Holdem on June 26. As recently as 2012, there were 5 Limit Holdem events, plus a Mixed Limit-NL Holdem. Now all of them are gone except for those two I just mentioned. The $2500 Limit 6-Max event, which was still there in 2013, is now gone.

This will lower my overall pahticipation in the WSOP. I don't know why they are only running 2 LHE events out of 65 in the WSOP, when LHE games are still a fairly high percentage of cash games running. Why are they still wasting events on garbage like Pot Limit Holdem?

I also refuse to play those $1k donkaments, because you only start with 3,000 chips, and it's just not enough. Too much luck involved, and you really don't want it to mainly be about luck when you're trying to get through a field of thousands.

I will play some of the $1500 NL events again, as the 4500 starting chips is much better, and I have done fairly well in those.

I will again play the Main Event.

I will be selling pieces of myself again this year, though no more than 40% in any single event, and again not for the Main Event.

Overall, it's a disappointing schedule for me personally.

[Dan Druff]

I also want to advise NOT playing the Little One for One Drop.

I have nothing against the $1,111 One Drop charity, but the event should be boycotted because Caesar's is expecting the players to foot the entire charity bill ($111 per entry), while still charging full rake for the house.

Charity events should, at the very least, be a joint effort between the venue and the players.

Otherwise it's just a way for the corporation to profit from people's attempts to be charitable, which is really crappy.

Also, you don't get to write off the $111 from your taxes (it's a write-off for Caesar's!)

[Dan Druff]

Oh, and one interesting event is the $1,500 MONSTER STACK event, which is an NL event where you start with 15k chips instead of 4500.

Here is the structure sheet: http://www.wsop.com/2014/structuresh...-structure.pdf

I would have wanted to play it, but it's the same day as the $10k Limit Holdem, so forget it.

[Dan Druff]

Oh, a few other minor changes this year, too.

In order to accommodate the degens who enter multiple events in one day, they have extended late registration until just prior to the start of Level 7. It used to be Level 5.

The dinner break typically occurs after Level 6 on the 12pm events. This means that people can enter 12pm events until 8:10pm on most days! Of course, this is being done to make more rake for Caesar's.

In addition, they are starting most of the late-afternoon events at 4pm instead of 5pm, and playing 10 levels instead of 8. This was being done to prevent people from making as many "meaningless Day 2s", where they have to return with a tiny stack on Day 2, yet still far from the money. While I like this change, again it was money-motivated. Caesar's realized they were losing out on people registering for the next day's 12pm events when they made Day 2s with short stacks, which typically restarted at 2pm or 3pm.

This change does make a very late day for the 4pm events, though. Players won't be finished until well after 3am.

[abrown83]

This totally blew my plans out of the water.

Personally it ended up working better as I can play both PLO8 tournaments and if I bust the first one I can contemplate buying into the Mega Stack.

[BeerAndPoker]

What I didn't see is if their is a one day break after Day 1C of the main event and Day 2.

It's only a matter of time before the WSOP Main Event becomes an event you re-enter even if it's just once per starting day.