The Big 50, a $500 bracelet event, has a lot to offer there are re-entries, but every player's initial buy-in is completely rake-free, with 50,000 starting chips, a guaranteed $5 million prize pool and $1 million minimum for first place. Running from May 28 through July 16, the 50th anniversary of poker's most famous event will be celebrated on the first weekend of the series with a new event. Some eyes are already looking ahead to the 2019 WSOP, with key dates for a handful of events recently announced. That's $8 million in the prize pool with players who'd normally never dream of playing for such a sum, and with so much added value this tournament will almost certainly set a record as the largest field for a $25,000 buy-in and one of the largest prize pools in the history of tournament poker. By the time the tournament kicks off, more than 300 seats will have been given away. Over the course of the tour, players won $25,000 seats that were added to the prize pools of $86 events and a variety of other tournaments and promotions. Over the course of 2018, PokerStars created a Moneymaker Tour that began in August and ran until the end of year, which celebrated the 15th anniversary of Chris Moneymaker's 2003 WSOP main event victory. People are watching poker on more platforms than ever, from PokerGo, to Twitch and Facebook.Īs the calendar turns to January, many poker players are resting up to play in the PokerStars Players Championship (PSPC), a $25,000 no-limit hold'em event being held in a few weeks at the Atlantis Casino in Paradise Island, Bahamas, during the annual PokerStars Caribbean Adventure series. The same player, Aaron Johnson, did something completely unprecedented by winning Player of the Year honors on two different mid-major tours - the Heartland and Mid-Stakes Poker Tours. The World Poker Tour (WPT) set a record field for the largest $10,000 buy-in in its history. The World Series of Poker main event drew its second-largest field in history with 7,874 (only 2006, with 8,773 players, had more). With 2018 at its end, the poker world can look back at the last 12 months with a sense of optimism after an impressive year.

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