All of the larger field events have 20 minute level breaks and 75 minute dinner breaks. The small fields have 15 minute level breaks and 60 minute dinners.

That is historically consistent to my ever failing memory

Yeah, I had glanced at the structures and didn’t seem like anything was different with regard to breaks, but for some reason I had it in my head that they were 90 minutes over the years. In any case, this definitely puts the kibash on walking a large distance to have a sit-down meal. But the to-go option should still be viable. Like I said previously, in years past I have waited for and taken a cab to the strip and had a sit down meal, so it seems to me that there should be plenty of time to take advantage of the significantly more options in the vicinity of the WSOP this year.

Liking the discussion on this thread. I will be there from 6/29- 7/6. Plan to play at a minimum $600 plo deepstack event 63, mini main event 66 and million dollar bounty event 68. This will be my third time going, went in 2019 and 2021.

Last trip in 2021 I felt the whole time I was waiting on long lines for everything. It kind of put a damper on the trip a little bit. Hour plus waits to register, late reg, payout line aren’t too much fun. No matter what time of day it didn’t matter, day time or 1am still hour plus lines. You know you are going to get some of that but it was too much for me.

My question is has anyone used the bravo app to register? I’m not asking for a breakdown how to register via the app but how much would the additional fees be if I wanted to just load it through my checking account. I am trying to gauge how much it would be and if it’s worth me not standing in hours of lines for the week. To make it easy how much additional fees would it be for an even like $1000 mini main. If it’s not that much more then I think it’s a no brainer for anyone that doesn’t want their trip to be bogged down by long lines…Thanks all.

Bravo via credit card was about 3%
I think the wire/ACH option was about the same.
2019 info below
https://www.wsop.com/registration/

Methods of payment for the required buy-in(s) for WSOP events are as follows: (1) cash, (2) credit/debit cards (Visa, MasterCard, Discover or American Express), (3) wire transfers or cashier’s checks drawn from the registrant’s accredited bank account and made out to Participant or Rio, (4) Rio gaming chips, (5) Rio Tournament Buy-In Chips, or Tournament Buy-In Credit (TBIC). Additional fees will be incurred on all credit/debit card/TBIC transactions. Participants using credit/debit cards must have a valid ID that matches the cardholder name present on the credit card used for the transaction. Addition of ACH to Online Registration: For the first time in 2021, players utilizing the BravoPokerLive.com online registration system to register and fund event purchases will be able to utilize their bank account to pay, via a domestic guaranteed ACH for U.S. residents, and a similar but slightly different method for International users. This method is commonly known as the “ACH” method of payment, as the funds come directly from a user’s bank account. This method comes with a 2.75% payment processing fee, along with a $3 per event transaction amount. (None of the extra fees go to the WSOP. They go to the service carriers providing these options.) Wire transfers, cashier’s checks and credit/debit cards/TBIC remain payment methods for online registration, with all transactions coming with a $3 per event additional fee and credit/debit cards adding 2.95%/3.95% depending on card issuer.

Thanks…so from this it seems it would be for mini main $1,000.00 buy in + 2.75% ($27.50) + $3 = $1,030.50. Not too bad thought it would be worse. As you go up in buy ins the fees get much worse obviously but for the $1,000 ones and under not too bad. No brainer for me at that price. F the lines.

Nope, you still need to wait in line at least once to verify your identity.

Can you front load your WSOP tournament account with a wire transfer, use it to register events, then only travel to Vegas, have them check your identify, print your tickets, etc. ?

Cant find dick on the mini events. Anyone know if the seniors $250 is scheduled each week. Cant wait too get my ass handed to me.

Hendon Mob has a list of daily deepstacks including a weekly $250 seniors event on Wednesdays at 9am. Given Kevmath's relationship with THM, I would guess it is accurate.

https://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/fes...hp?a=r&n=40581

If you go to WSOP, and then Schedule then "Download Schedule", all the information is there (other than structures):

Deep Stack No-Limit Hold’em Tournaments Every Day June 1 - July 17 (one day events)
$250 Buy-In No-Limit Hold’em tournaments at 2 PM.
$400 Buy-In No-Limit Hold’em tournaments at 5 PM. Accelerated Format.
$200 Buy-In No-Limit Hold’em tournaments at 9 PM. Accelerated Format.

https://www.wsop.com/pdfs/schedules/schedule_4943.pdf

Seniors Deep Stack No-Limit Hold’em Tournaments Every Wednesday June 1 - July 13 (one-day events) (Must be 50 years of age or older)

250 Buy-In No-Limit Hold’em tournaments at 9 AM

My first event will be #18 1000$ freezout. I looked at the structure sheet, is level 19 correct? Ante is not equal with BB?

https://www.wsop.com/pdfs/structuresheets/structure_4943_20318.pdf[/img]

The WSOP schedule refers to a seniors event every Wednesday from June 1 - July 13. I play in these regularly (won one in November). They are always a big target for me, as are all other seniors events. Sometimes they don’t run if there is a big event clashing on the same day, even though the schedule always states ‘every Wednesday’ .

Kevmath’s list is misleading. It correctly includes a seniors event every Wednesday up to and including Wednesday June 29. But there is an error in there - an event is listed for Monday 13th for no reason that I can determine. After the 29th it becomes unclear. No event is listed for Wednesday July 6th. That is day 1D of the ME, so there is indeed some chance that the seniors will not run. Perhaps that’s why Kevmath didn’t list it. But he doesn’t list a seniors event on Wednesday July 13th either, which does appear to be a palpable error.

So was the omission of the event on July 6 a prediction or an omission?

In 2019 the seniors clashed on Wednesday July 3rd with day 1 of the ME. The seniors event ran with 228 entrants.
In 2021, Wednesday November 3 was the day before the ME started and listed as ‘satellite day’. The seniors did not run, and neither did the afternoon deepstack tournament. The seniors returned the following Wednesday. 2021 was a difficult year of course, and there were various issues including a dealer shortage that impacted the schedule in a variety of ways.

My suspicion is that 2021 was the outlier, and that 2019 offers a better prediction for this year’s template. In which case I hope and expect that the seniors will run on July 6th, and that it will serve as my satty for day 2 of the ME on the 7th 😀

Must be a typo.
Should be 10000-5000-10000.

Popping my Vegas-First-Time-Cherry and WSOP-First-Time-Cherry.. very excited and know none of the ins/outs so will be very much out of my element. Staying at Resorts World 6/30 - 7/4 and based on availability looks like I'll be playing Event #66: MINI Main Event No-Limit Hold’em (freezeout).

Couple of Qs, primarily transportation wise.. is there a shuttle from the airport to RW? from RW to Ballys? Is Uber the best method to get to RW to the strip?

Also, do other places hold tournaments during this time and if so, what would be the locations I should look up? So many casino's, would like to be pointed in the right direction to avoid endless google searches.

You'll definitely want to check out the other tournament schedules:

Golden Nugget - https://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/fes...hp?a=r&n=40675
Wynn - https://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/fes...hp?a=r&n=41289
Venetian - https://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/fes...hp?a=r&n=40545
Aria - TBD (probably announcing very soon)
Orleans - TBD

Also worth a look are the daily deepstacks at the WSOP, which are cheaper/softer tournaments: https://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/fes...hp?a=r&n=40581

Long time lurker, only recently started posting. With all these tournaments going on same time as WSOP, where will good cash games be? I'll have a full day before the tournament I am planning on playing in, and a full day or two after I win the bracelet. I'd like to earn a little extra cash by playing cash games those days. I was thinking Wynn, Aria, or Bellagio, as those are my favorite places to play cash, but two of them, it looks like, will be full with tournaments.

DogFace nailed it regarding the other series. Check those links and poker rooms’ social media for all the other series schedules.

Regarding transportation to/from Resorts World and Bally’s/Paris, you’ll have some challenges in terms of ease of access. Curious why you chose that hotel – did you have a corporate account or promo rate? If so, understandable. Otherwise, you may want to consider relocating, assuming you have a refundable rate and your only purpose for the trip is poker.

Resorts World is located way up on the north strip, so it’s not a quick walk to center strip (probably about 45 minutes each way). The only easy transportation option from RW to Bally’s will be Uber, which is fine and convenient if you don’t mind paying for at least 2 Ubers per day while you’re there. If money is no object, Uber is the way to go, but multiple Uber rides per day can add up fast.

The WSOP itself (Bally's/Paris), as well as some of the main cash games (Bellagio, Aria) and other tourney series (Aria), will be clustered center-strip. There are many, many hotels within a 10-15 minute walk of that cluster of poker rooms, including hotels at all price ranges and quality levels.

If you’re purely going to grind poker, and are planning to play WSOP bracelet events and/or WSOP daily/nightly events, I would say cancel the Resorts World room, and rebook center strip somewhere. Depending on your budget and expectations of quality, you could do Caesar’s, Aria, Bellagio, Cosmopolitan (if you need luxury), or Planet Hollywood, Linq, Harrah’s, Mirage, Flamingo, Bally’s (among others) if you just want a clean and more reasonably priced room. All of those hotels are an easy walk to/from Bally’s/Paris.

If you do end up staying at RW, Uber will definitely be your best option to/from the WSOP. As others have mentioned, the Monorail would be a good option for many because it has a stop right at Bally’s, and is cheap. But, RW is on the other side of Las Vegas Blvd. from the Monorail, and the closet stop is at the convention center, which is at least a 20 minute walk from RW. You can get a 4-day Monorail pass for $36 and it will pick you up and drop you off right at Bally’s, but you’ll have to walk at least 20 minutes each way just to get to/from the station closest to RW.

Final thought, if you stay at RW, should also consider playing your non-WSOP poker at Wynn. It has a poker room, its own tourney series, and is an easy walk from RW.

Re strip transportation: not sure what the scene is like now or what it will be like in a couple months, but when I was in Vegas last December, Uber/Lyft had become significantly less attractive options. They were much more expensive than they used to be, and with the shortage of drivers, waits were often lengthy. It was often far more convenient and pretty much the same price to just grab a cab at a taxi stand. I think the trip to/from the airport is still a better deal with ride share, but in town, that may not be the case. If you’re going anywhere in the area of the center strip and your ride share is showing to be more than $15, you might consider a cab.

Regular daily tournaments at card rooms often take up tables that could be cash games.

But for these big series, they bring in extra tables, sometimes right next to the poker room (like at Orleans), sometimes way far away (like at Venetian which sets up tournaments at Pallazzo a whole building away from poker room).

https://poker-schedule.com/table-view/

are you sure abut that? i dont remember the exact amount, but it seems like the only time i was in vegas and took a cab back in like 2015 or so, the cost from a strip hotel to the airport was like 30 bucks or something outrageous. obviously things could have changed, the market might have been tight, or maybe i just looked like a cab newbie and driver just took advantage or something like that.

By law, all cab fares to/from airport are now a fixed rate. You can find a list here:

https://taxi.nv.gov/Rider_Info/Las_V...t_Zones_Fares/

I think some prior posters were also commenting about cabs v. Uber to get around the city during a stay, not just to/from airport. Since Uber rates are always subject to so many fluctuating variables (time of day, demand, traffic, driver availability, etc.), when it comes to pricing, YMMV.

I think now there is fixed rate for the cab from the Airport:

Taxi Flat Rates from the Airport to Strip Hotels By Zone
Zone 1: $19 will get you to Delano, Excalibur, Virgin Las Vegas, Luxor, Mandalay Bay, MGM Grand, OYO, and Tropicana.

Zone 2: $23 will get you to Aria, Bally’s, Bellagio, Elara, New York New York, Marriot Grand Chateau, Paris, Park MGM, Planet Hollywood, Polo Towers, Cosmopolitan, Orleans, Signature at MGM, Vdara, and Travelodge by Wyndham.

Zone 3: $27 will get you to Caesars Palace, Circus Circus, Encore, Flamingo, Gold Coast, Harrah’s, Hilton Grand Vacations, Las Vegas Convention Center, Palace Station, Palms, Resorts World, Rio, Sahara, Strat, LINQ, Mirage, Palazzo, Venetian, Westin, Trump, TI, Westgate, and Wynn.

In addition to the above, you need to go to a specific area for the rideshares at each property some of which are a non insignificant walk. The Rio was a long walk from the property to the garage.