In an oddly quiet announcement, the World Series of Poker released the schedule for the 2024 WSOP Europe last week. Slated for September 18 to October 9, the Series will once again be played at its long-term home of King’s Resort in Rozvadov, Czech Republic.
2024 WSOP consists of 15 gold bracelet events, culminating with the €5 million guaranteed, €10,350 No-Limit Hold’em European Championship, better known as the Main Event, October 4-9 (though there are a couple other events starting and ending during the Main Event).
According to graphics in its social media posts, the WSOP expects more than 400 qualifiers to play in Day 1A of the Main Event. There appears to be a concerted effort to make this year another record-breaking WSOP Europe. Last year’s Main Event was easily the largest in WSOP Europe, fielding 817 entries. It was the first time the Main Event broke through the 800-entrant plateau. Each year since 2017 has produced a new Main Event record, with the last three years being the most significant jumps in that stretch.
The World Series of Poker is thus aiming to hit at least half of last year’s mark on Day 1A alone. With the surge in popularity of live poker since casino’s reopened after pandemic closures, a new record might be a good bet.
Every event has a guaranteed prize pool, with €13.450 million guaranteed across all 15 tournaments (the WSOP’s promos say €15 million, but I’ve added up the numbers more than once and keep getting €13.450 million – if I’m missing something, apologies).
Six of the tournaments have guaranteed prize pools of at least €1 million:
Event #1: €350 No-Limit Hold’em Opener – €1 million guaranteed
Event #3: €1,350 Mini Main Event – €1.5 million guaranteed
Event #5: €550 No-Limit Hold’em Colossus – €1.5 million guaranteed
Event #8: €25,000 No-Limit Hold’em GGMillion$ – €1 million guaranteed
Event #12: €50,000 No-Limit Hold’em Diamond High Roller – €1 million guaranteed
Event #13: €10,350 No-Limit Hold’em Main Event – €5 million guaranteed
The 2023 WSOP Europe Main Event had a €7,761,500 prize pool and was won by Max Neugebauer, who claimed the first prize of €1.5 million.
