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The 2020 inductees will be announced Wednesday, 30 December prior to the WSOP Main Event finale at Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas.

The first final table winner of the 2020 World Series of Poker $10,000 Championship Main Event has been determined, at the King's Casino in Rozvadov for the international leg of the online/live hybrid.

After surviving the online portion, the final nine players will now travel to Las Vegas to battle live on Monday, 28 December at the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino.

On Monday, the surviving 71 players from a 705-entry field returned to battle for one of nine coveted spots. The nine players will have to wait until Monday, 28 December to play down to a winner live in Las Vegas.

The World Series of Poker closed registration on its unique 2020’s hybrid online and live edition of the $10,000 No-Limit Hold-Em World Championship with a $13,238,000 prize pool.

Due to COVID-19, we didn't get to experience the usual World Series of Poker in Las Vegas that we have become accustomed to over the years. However, that doesn’t mean we will be without the biggest poker event of the year.

They have scheduled the 2020 World Series of Poker Main Event, and this year's tourney will be different than any in history.

The world’s most prestigious poker tournament is back in our headlines this week with the return of the Main Event, with live final tables.

The hybrid online and live version of the $10,000 No-Limit Hold-Em World Championship will begin for international players on Sunday, 29 November and domestically on Sunday, 13 December.

Beginning Tuesday, 22 December at 10 a.m. Pacific Time, the hotel will accommodate weekend stays, Thursday through Monday, while the gaming floor will be open seven days a week.

Even though we are seeing a much different edition of the World Series of Poker this year, it is officially underway. While it is not taking place at the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, golden bracelets will be awarded in online competitions this summer.

With no live World Series of Poker taking place in Las Vegas this summer, Casino City's Gary Trask fondly looks back at his past experience covering the event from all angles.

We have seen several U.S. states near the ready point to begin reopening certain things to the public. Some have even announced a date that they will begin to do so. Many casinos in Nevada are pushing for reopening to take place sometime next month.

The 51st running of WSOP was set to begin 26 May in Las Vegas, but is now being targeted for the fall due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Casinos and poker rooms are shutting down due to the coronavirus pandemic, but when the doors re-open will poker players flock back, or will there be trepidation?

With more than eight weeks until the 2020 schedule is set to begin, WSOP officials are still holding out hope that the COVID-19 outbreak won’t wipe out the entire schedule of live events in Las Vegas.

In this week’s edition, the World Series of Poker is back in headlines, two U.S. states see sports betting progress, a new Las Vegas poker room in unveiled and Canada pushes for an improvement to sports wagering.

The 51st Annual World Series of Poker is set to run from 26 May to 15 July at the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas with seven notable improvements.

This agreement will see 888 Poker resume its prominent sponsorship of the poker series, which is expected to host a record number of players at the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, starting from 26 May.

As online poker continues to be a key cog in the wheel of growing the game of poker, the World Series of Poker is bolstering its online offerings in 2020 to help elevate this popular variant with new price points and freezeouts.