2010 WSOP Schedule Released

The 2010 WSOP schedule was released (press release). The major change is converting the $50,000 HORSE event into an 8-game Players Championship which adds NLHE, PLO, and 2-7 Triple Draw Lowball to the HORSE games. The final table will be no-limit hold 'em only, as it was in its first year, and it will be televised again. There's long been a battle over whether poker should be modified for TV, and the $50,000 HORSE event's final table was one of the battlefields. The "poker is for TV" crowd (e.g. Daniel Negreanu) won this time. The additional games at least make the tournament worthy of the title "Players Championship," as it now includes most of the serious poker games.

Other than the Players Championship and the Main Event, we don't yet know what will be televised. Two televised events from 2009, the $40,000 no-limit hold 'em tournament and the Champions Invitational, aren't on the schedule for 2010. One major addition, a $25,000 shorthanded no-limit hold 'em event, seems like a likely candidate for television. The other major change to the schedule is the addition of lots of $1,000 no-limit hold 'em events with two starting days to accommodate large fields.

Televised events will be broadcast on ESPN starting in late July 2010.

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