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The World Series of Poker has announced the WSOP Circuit schedule for the 2023-24 season, and it includes 25 stops beginning with the kickoff for the 19th season that begins on July 19th at the Choctaw Casino Resort in Durant, Oklahoma. That event will be right on the heels of the record-breaking WSOP currently running in Las Vegas. The upcoming season will conclude with a stop at Caesars Southern Indiana from May 9-20, 2024. Additional stops will be added to this initial schedule release later in July, and WSOP Online Circuit events on WSOP.COM will be scheduled monthly.
“We are on pace to make history with the largest WSOP of all time this year and have already hosted ten record-breaking events so far at the 2023 WSOP,” said Senior Vice President and Executive Director of the WSOP, Ty Stewart. “As the excitement around the game of poker continues to grow exponentially, we expect this energy to roll into the WSOP Circuit this summer, setting some records along the way as well.”
Kicking off with the Choctaw Circuit Event, official WSOP Circuit gold ring winners from either the live or online circuit events through May 2024 will qualify for the invitation-only “Tournament of Champions” event during the 2024 World Series of Poker tournament at Horseshoe and Paris Las Vegas. The $1 million freeroll is a highly-coveted title by winners of a gold ring. This year’s TOC title went to Ronnie Day, who topped a field of 741 players to take home the top prize of $200,000 along with a gold bracelet to pair with the gold ring that secured his free seat in the tournament.
The new WSOP Circuit schedule features many familiar locations across ten states, but there are two newcomers on this season’s schedule of venues. Graton Casino in Rohnert Park, California will host a stop from Aug. 10-21, while Horseshoe Hammond Casino in Hammond, Indiana will now play host to a pair of circuit stops in both early October and early March.
Here is a look at the current 2023-24 WSOP Circuit schedule:
July 19 – 30, 2023: Choctaw Durant (Dallas/Oklahoma)
August 3 – 14, 2023: Harrah’s Cherokee (North Carolina)
August 10 – 21, 2023: Graton Casino – Northern California
August 17 – 28, 2023: Hard Rock (Tulsa)
September 7 – 18, 2023: Horseshoe Council Bluffs (Omaha/Iowa)
September 28 – October 9, 2023: Thunder Valley Casino (Northern California)
October 5 – 16, 2023: Horseshoe Hammond (Chicagoland)
October 12 – 23, 2023: Isle of Capri (Pompano Beach, Florida)
October 25 – November 6, 2023: Choctaw Durant (Dallas/Oklahoma)
November 2 – 13, 2023: Harvey’s Lake Tahoe (Nevada)
November 9 – 20, 2023: Grand Victoria Casino (Chicago, IL)
November 23 – December 4, 2023: Harrah’s Cherokee (North Carolina)
January 3 – 14, 2024: Choctaw Durant (Dallas/Oklahoma)
January 11 – 22, 2024: Thunder Valley Casino (Northern California)
January 18 – 29, 2024: Horseshoe Tunica (Tunica, MS)
February 1 – 12, 2024: Isle of Capri (Pompano Beach, Florida)
February 15 – 26, 2024: Harrah’s Cherokee (North Carolina)
February 29 – March 11, 2024: Horseshoe Hammond (Chicagoland)
March 7 – 18, 2024: Hard Rock (Tulsa)
March 14 – 25, 2024: Turning Stone Resort Casino (Verona, NY)
March 21 – April 1, 2024: Horseshoe Las Vegas (Las Vegas, NV)
April 4 – 15, 2024: Grand Victoria Casino (Chicago, IL)
April 18 – 29, 2024: Horseshoe Tunica (Tunica, MS)
May 2 – 13, 2024: Harrah’s Cherokee (North Carolina)
May 9 – 20, 2024: Caesars Southern Indiana, (Elizabeth, IN)
ABOUT THE WSOP CIRCUIT
The World Series of Poker (WSOP) Circuit events are a series of poker tournaments hosted throughout the United States and throughout the world beginning in late July each year, and culminating the following August with a $1,000,000 Global Casino Championship where the victor earns a WSOP gold bracelet as well. WSOP U.S. Circuit Events are designed to give the recreational and amateur player an opportunity to participate in the WSOP experience at a more affordable price point and with less of a time commitment than the traditional WSOP in Las Vegas. Each stop typically features 12 official events in 12 days, including a $1,700 buy-in no-limit hold’em main event. Official WSOP Circuit events range in buy-in from $250-$5,300 and award a prestigious WSOP gold ring to each victor. These poker tournaments are designed to reach a winner within two playing days, with some events even structured to complete in one day. A season-ending WSOP Global Casino Championship is held each summer. All ring winners from each stop gains automatic entry into the season-ending WSOP Tournament of Champions. Players who finish within the top 15 percent of the field are typically awarded prize money on an escalating scale until there is one player who has captured all the chips. That victor wins the largest share of the prize pool, a WSOP Circuit gold ring and points toward the Tournament of Champions qualification. The WSOP Circuit events are a regional and international offshoot of the longest-running, largest, richest and most prestigious gaming event in the world, dating back 53 years to 1970 – the famous World Series of Poker. This marks the 18th year the WSOP Circuit events have been held. They were initially established by Caesars Entertainment (then Harrah’s Entertainment) after its purchase of the WSOP brand in 2004 as a way to bring the WSOP experience to Caesars-owned properties throughout the U.S. In the inaugural season (2004-05), the WSOP Circuit featured five stops – Atlantic City, Lake Tahoe, Las Vegas, San Diego and New Orleans. Now, with 25 stops domestically, the WSOP Circuit visits 10 U.S. states and cumulatively features more entrants than the Las Vegas version of the WSOP. Caesars Interactive Entertainment, Inc., (CIE) owns the WSOP and the WSOP Circuit events.
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