2008 WSOP Schedule

And once again the time has arrived…

The 2008 World Series of Poker has announced this year’s schedule of games. This year’s WSOP will consist of 55 games being played beginning at the end of May and continuing until the first part of July.

The WSOP schedule has quite the variety of games, very similar to last years schedule including the buy-in amounts. Some new combinations of games will be introduced this year.

This years games will begin being played early than any other year, on May 30th. The first game being played this year is the $10,000 Pot Limit Hold’em event. In years past the Casino Employees game was always the first game held. This year that game will be the last one played and starts on July 7th.

The buy-in amounts have slowly become bigger with only two games this year that have $1,000 buy-in other than the Ladies only and the Seniors tournament. And those two games are No Limit Hold’em with re-buys and an add-on. Quite a few of this years games will have a buy-in of $1500.

The Main Event game this year will last for 13 days and starts on July 3rd. Different from last year is the amount of starting chips players will have, at $20,000 and there will be four days of Day One play.

So far, there have been no changes to the schedule since it was announced. As will past years game play starts at either noon or 5pm and continues to either a set level of the tournament or 2 am, whichever comes first. Poker schedule and the WSOP personnel will not be able to change that schedule once play commences.

One special game being played this year is the ‘Ante up for Africa’ which has a $5,000 buy-in, that a portion of those monies will benefit the organization hosted by Annie Duke and Don Cheadle. This game was played last year and more than $700,000 was raised for victims in Darfur.

The break-down of this years events looks like this:

DATE	EVENT	BUYIN
may-28	Registration Opens, Live Action & Satellites Begin
may-29	Registration, Live Action & Satellites
may-30	World Championship Pot-Limit Hold'em (3 day event)	$10,000
may-31	No-Limit Hold'em (4 day event) Day 1A	$1,500
June 1	No-Limit Hold'em Day 1B
June 2	Pot-Limit Hold'em (3 day event)	$1,500
June 2	Mixed Hold'em (Limit/No-Limit) (3 Day event)	$5,000
June 3	No-Limit Hold'em w/Re-Buys (3 day event)	$1,000
June 3	Omaha Hi-Low Split-8 or Better (3 day event)	$1,500
June 4	No-Limit Hold'em (3 day event)	$2,000
June 4	World Championship Mixed Event (3 day event)	$10,000
	Limit Holdem, Omaha Hi-Low Split-8 or Better,
	>Seven Card Razz, Seven Card Stud, Seven Card Stud
	Hi-Low Split-8 or Better, No-Limit Holdem,
	Pot-Limit Omaha, 2-7 Triple Draw Lowball

June 5	No-Limit Hold'em / Six Handed(3 day event)	$1,500
June 5	Omaha/Seven Card Stud Hi-Low-8 or Better (3 day event)	$2,500
June 6	No-Limit Hold'em Shootout (3 day event)	$5,000
June 6	Limit Hold'em (3 day event)	$1,500
June 7	No-Limit Hold'em (3 day event)	$2,500
June 7	World Championship Seven Card Stud (3 day event)	$10,000
June 8	Ladies No-Limit Hold'em Championship (3 day event)	$1,000
June 8	Omaha Hi-Low Split-8 or Better (3 day event)	$2,000
June 9	No-Limit Hold'em Shootout (3 day event)	$1,500
June 9	No-Limit 2-7 Draw Lowball w/Re-Buys (3 day event)	$5,000
June 10	Pot-Limit Omaha (3 day event)	$1,500
June 10	Limit Hold'em (3 day event)	$2,000
June 11	No-Limit Hold'em (3 day event)	$5,000

June 11	H.O.R.S.E. (3 day event)	$3,000
	Limit Holdem, Omaha Hi-Low Split-8 or Better,
	Seven Card Razz, Seven Card Stud, Seven Card Stud
	Hi-Low Split-8 or Better

June 12	No-Limit Hold'em (3 day event)	$2,000
June 12	Pot-Limit Holdem/Omaha (3 day event)	$2,500
June 13	World Championship Heads Up No-Limit Hold'em
	(256 player max) (3 day event)	$10,000
June 13	Seven Card Razz (3 day event)	$1,500
June 14	No-Limit Hold'em (3 day event)	$1,500
June 14	Pot-Limit Omaha W/Rebuys (3 day event)	$5,000
June 15	No-Limit Hold'em (3 day event)	$3,000
June 15	World Championship Limit Hold'em (3 day event)	$10,000
June 16	No-Limit Hold'em / Six Handed (3 day event)	$2,500
June 17	No-Limit Hold'em (3 day event)	$1,500
June 17	World Championship Seven Card Stud Hi-Low Split-8
	or Better (3 day event)	$5,000
June 18	Pot-Limit Omaha W/Re-Buys (3 day event)	$1,500
June 18	Seven Card Stud (3 day event)	$1,500
June 19	No-Limit Hold'em (3 day event)	$1,500
June 19	World Championship Omaha Hi-Low Split-8
	or Better (3 day event)	$10,000
June 20	Pot-Limit Hold'em (3 day event)	$2,000
June 21	No-Limit Hold'em (3 day event)	$1,500

June 22	World Championship H.O.R.S.E. (5 day event)
	Limit Holdem, Omaha Hi-Low Split-8 or Better,
	Seven Card Razz, Seven Card Stud,Seven Card Stud
	Hi-Low Split-8 or Better	$50,000

June 22	Mixed Hold'em (limit/no-limit) (3 Day event)	$1,500
June 23	Seniors No-Limit Hold'em Championship (3 day event)	$1,000
June 24	Pot-Limit Omaha Hi-low Split-8 or Better (3 day event)	$1,500
June 25	No-Limit Hold'em w/Re-Buys (3 day event)	$1,000
June 25	2-7 Triple Draw Lowball (Limit) (3 day event)	$2,500
June 26	No-Limit Hold'em / Six Handed (3 day event)	$5,000
June 26	Seven Card Stud Hi-Low-8 or Better (3 day event)	$1,500
June 27	No-Limit Hold'em (3 day event)	$2,000
June 28	No-Limit Hold'em (3 day event)	$1,500
June 29	World Championship Pot Limit Omaha (3 day event)	$10,000

June 29	H.O.R.S.E. (3 day event)
	Limit Holdem, Omaha Hi-Low Split-8 or Better,
	Seven Card Razz, Seven Card Stud,
	Seven Card Stud Hi-Low Split-8 or Better	$1,500

June 30	No-Limit Hold'em (3 day event)	$1,500
July 1	Limit Hold'em Shootout (2 day event)	$1,500
July 2	Media Event
July 2	Satellite Day
July 2	Ante Up For Africa Charity Event (1 day event)	$5,000
July 3	World Championship No-Limit Texas Hold'em
	Day 1A 2,500 Players	$10,000
July 4	Day 1B 2,500 Players	$500
July 5	Day 1C 2,500 Players
July 6	Day 1D 2,500 Players
July 7	OFF
July 7	Casino Employees No-Limit Hold'em (2 day event)
July 8	Day 2A
July 9	Day 2B
July 10	Day 3
July 11	Day 4
July 12	Day 5
July 13	Day 6
July 14	Day 7
July 15	OFF
July 16	Final Table

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