2008 World Series of Poker Schedule Confirmed
December 12th, 2007
Harrah’s Entertainment has announced the schedule for the 39th World Series Of Poker 2008, which will be presented by Milwaukee’s Best Light and exclusively televised on ESPN.
For the first time the event will start and end with a $10,000 buy-in World Championship event and feature a total of eight $10,000 championships.
The 2008 WSOP will consist of a total of 55 events starting on Friday May 30th 2008, with two days of registering and satellites before the first event takes place, the $10,000 World Championship Pot-Limit Hold’em. The last day of the 39th WSOP will be held on July 16th with the Final Table of the $10,000 buy-in World Championship No Limit Texas Hold’em - better known as the WSOP Main Event.
In addition, the 55-event schedule for 2008 includes a total of eight $1,500 buy-in No-Limit Hold’em tournaments, which traditionally draw the largest fields except for the Main Event.
Last year, 54,288 entrants who ranged in age from 21 to 94 competed for the poker world’s largest total prize pool of nearly $160 million.
“This is our most exciting schedule yet,” said Jeffrey Pollack, commissioner of the WSOP. “Both amateur and professional poker players will have new opportunities to compete for a WSOP bracelet and can choose from the widest variety of games and buy-ins ever offered in one poker tournament and certainly at the WSOP.”
“We’re holding steady at 55 events this year,” said Pollack. “But, we’ve mixed it up a bit to keep it interesting for our players and fans.”
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