WSOP Nevada Schedules Largest Ever Online Championships for 2016
Key Takeaways
  • Online ambitions have grown at the World Series of Poker, with its signature online poker tournament series is growing both in terms of events and total guaranteed prize pool.
  • Starting in mid-June and running for a full month, the Online Championships, scheduled to coincide with the live tournament series in Nevada, will have a combined $700,000 in guaranteed prize pools across 93 events.
  • “The truth of the matter is the WSOP’s real-money online poker offering, WSOP.com, did more business during last year’s WSOP, than the entire Nevada online poker market did in the 2014 calendar year combined.”

Online ambitions have grown at the World Series of Poker, with its signature online poker tournament series is growing both in terms of events and total guaranteed prize pool.

Starting in mid-June and running for a full month, the Online Championships, scheduled to coincide with the live tournament series in Nevada, will have a combined $700,000 in guaranteed prize pools across 93 events.