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Wishing you could find all the key info about the 2020 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event in one place? You'll love this WSOP 2020 schedule.

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As announced here on PokerNews on Friday, the World Series of Poker (WSOP) are coming back soon with an unprecedented mix of online and live games.

The action will be split between WSOP.com and GGPoker, giving players from different countries the opportunity to participate and compete in a one-of-a-kind $10,000 WSOP Main Event.

This means we are going to have an official 2020 Main Event champion in 2020, although the situation caused by the COVID pandemic will make everything...a bit different.

Continue reading to learn:

• The Schedule of the PokerNews WSOP Main Event coverage. (coming soon)

WSOP 2020 Schedule: the Main Event

Forget the long queues at the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas and the comments about the close-to-polar temperatures in the tournament room.

The largest part of the 2020 WSOP Main Event action is going to happen online with only 18 survivors being invited to play a game of live poker.

To complicate things even further, not everyone will play at the same time this year. The two poker operators set up two different schedules that converge into one final event scheduled to take place in Las Vegas on Dec. 30.

To help you keep track of what-happens-where and know what are the key dates that are relevant to you, we put together a detailed 2020 WSOP schedule with everything there is to know about this year's $10,000 Main Event.

Schedule of the 2020 WSOP Domestic Main Event

The 'domestic' Main Event is a $10,000 buy-in freezeout no-limit Texas hold'em tournament that will take place on WSOP.com.

This poker tournament will be open to all players in New Jersey and Nevada.

• The action begins on Sunday, Dec. 13, with the event's only Day 1 flight.
• The tournament will then continue on Monday, December 14, and play down to a final table of nine players.
• The final table will see all the qualifiers play down to a winner at the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, on Monday, Dec. 28.

Important Notice: You do not need to be a resident of New Jersey or Nevada to play — but you are required to be physically located in one of these two states to access the games on the WSOP.com client.

For more info about this, have a look at our guides to online poker in New Jersey and online poker in Nevada.

Schedule of the 2020 WSOP International Main Event

To allow more players to join the event and fight for the most coveted title in poker, the WSOP will run an 'international' leg of the Main Event as well.

This $10,000 freezeout tournament will take place on the GGPoker client, the same that already hosted a successful online edition of the WSOP in the summer.

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Given that the GGPoker leg of the 2020 WSOP Main Event is expected to attract a larger crowd, the organizers split the action into three starting flights.

• The action on GGPoker will begin on Sunday, Nov. 29 with the Day 1a.
• The other Day 1's will take place on Saturday, Dec. 5, and Sunday, Dec. 6.
• All the survivors will then play down to nine players on Monday, Dec. 7.
• The last nine participants will play down to a winner in a game of live poker to be held at the King's Casino in Rozvadov, on Tuesday, Dec. 16.

Should travel restrictions or a casino shutdown prevent the WSOP Main Event final table to take place in Rozvadov, the organizer announced they will consider moving the event online or rescheduling it to a later date.

Keep in mind that each player can only play one Day 1, so you won't be able to re-enter the tournament after you are eliminated.

The 2020 WSOP Main Event Heads-Up Finale

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The winner of both the 'domestic' and the 'international' legs of this unprecedented 2020 WSOP Main Event will then play in a special Heads-Up Finale that will take place at the Rio on Wednesday, Dec. 30.

The winner of this adrenaline-packed game will walk away with an added $1,000,000 cash prize, a bracelet, and the title of 2020 WSOP Main Event champion.

WSOP 2020 Schedule: FAQs

This year's competition is split between the WSOP.com poker client and the GGPoker client, with both operators sunning tournaments at different times.

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The action at WSOP.com (New Jersey and Nevada players only) begins on Dec. 13, 2020. More info here.

The action at GGPoker begins on Nov. 29. More info here.

The final table of the 'domestic' 2020 WSOP Main Event will take place at the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, on Monday, Dec. 28, 2020.

The final table of the 'international' 2020 WSOP Main Event will take place at the Kings Casino in Rozvadov, Czech Republic, on Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2020.

The US-only tournament to be hosted on the WSOP.com platform feature a single Day 1 on December 13, 2020.

The GGPoker leg of the 2020 WSOP Main Event features three starting flights:

• Day 1 A: Sunday, Nov. 29
• Day 1 B: Saturday, Dec. 5
• Day 1 C: Sunday, Dec.6

Despite the three starting flights, players will be allowed to enter only a single Day 1.

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The 2020 WSOP Heads Up Finale will see the winner of the 'domestic' and the 'international' WSOP Main Event play down to a final winner.

The event will take place at the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas on Wednesday, Dec. 30. More info here.

Doyle Brunson picked up in 1977 right were he left of the year before. He took down his third gold bracelet by winning the preliminary seven-card stud eight-or-better tournament before gearing up for the main event. Bobby Baldwin also broke out onto the World Series of Poker scene by winning two gold bracelets in preliminary events. He won the $10,000 deuce-to-seven lowball event and then claimed the top prize in the very next event, the $5,000 seven-card stud tournament, to go back to back. This would be unheard of at the WSOP of today, although Jeff Madsen did come close to that feat in 2006.
Another new feature in 1977 was the first-ever WSOP ladies event. Tournament Director Eric Drache added the event to the schedule, and it was a $100 buy-in seven-card stud tournament that attracted 94 participants. Jackie McDaniels won the inaugural bracelet, and some form of ladies event has become a feature at the WSOP ever since.
Brunson made another strong run in the main event, and he made a large step toward defending his title when he picked up a huge pot with suited connectors late on the third day of action. Brunson busted both Buck Buchanan and Ed “Junior” Whited from the tournament on the hand and picked up 140,000 with trip sevens.
The final four players in the event were Milo “Sioux Falls Slew” Jacobson, “Sailor” Roberts, Gary “Bones” Berland, and Brunson. Roberts was sent to the rail in fourth place when his pocket eights ran into the pocket kings of Jacobson, and Jacobson followed suit in third place when Berland disposed of him with a straight. Brunson then slow-played a pair of queens in the hole against Berland and knocked out one of his legs. He doubled up through Berland on the hand to survive and take a substantial chip lead.
The final hand was a pleasant trip down memory lane for Brunson that also led Berland to steam for hours into the night. Brunson was dealt 10 2 in the hole, and Berland received 8 5. The flop hit the table 10 8 5, and Berland checked his option. Brunson checked, as well, and the 2 hit on the turn. Brunson led out with a bet. Berland pushed all in, and Brunson quickly called. The 10 on the river added insult to injury for Berland, and he finished in second place. Brunson had won the world championship for the second year in a row with 10-2 in the hole, and those cards are now known to the poker world as “Texas Dolly.” Brunson earned $340,000 for the win, along with his fourth gold bracelet, and he put that money to good use. Brunson spent the prize money on the publishing costs for the book that is now considered the bible of poker strategy books, Super/System.

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