It’s the news everyone has been waiting for since Robert Campbell was announced as the WSOP Player of the Year (eventually) following the World Series of Poker Europe festival. The World Series of Poker has announced their schedule for 2020, the preliminary headlines for the flagship poker festival of the year, and those all-important bookend dates.

The world’s favourite poker summer break will begin on Tuesday, May 26th and will conclude on Wednesday July 15th. With no November Nine anymore, that may seem like a brief period, but in reality it is eight weeks and a day of ferocious poker competition, which will, we’re sure conclude in Rozvadov after the WSOPE rounds out the POY chase.

The Main Event won’t be taking place until July of course, but overall, the events last 51 days, that’s one day for every year the WSOP has been running, with this year’s showpiece dubbed ‘The Golden Anniversary’ WSOP. Since the World Series didn’t gift the winner of last year’s event with their weight in gold, maybe it’ll happen in 2020 instead.

After much discussion during the 2019 World Series that the 2019 WSOP might be the last to take place at the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, that was proved to be a false theory, with the Rio retaining the rights to host the WSOP in 2020 and most likely 2021 too. Whether last week’s sale of the venue to Dreamscape changes anything for the venue in the future is undecided as yet, but the next WSOP in Las Vegas will include plenty of old favourites.