GG Poker’s WSOP Main Event will feature $25m guarantee

With the GGPoker WSOP Main Event just around the corner, the schedule has been released in full and it’s the talk of the poker world.

With a total of 54 WSOP bracelets to be won in events including a massive $25,000 Poker Players Championship, with a half-price entry fee of the regular, live Las Vegas version. The lowest buy-in of the series is, of course, the lowest entry fee that will ever have been paid for a WSOP event – outright that is, with satellite value always having been the best way to play – is the $50-entry ‘BIG 50’.

The WSOP Main Event on GGPoker kicks off on August 16th, costing $5,000 to take part in rather than the $10,000 ‘stack of high society’ that it would do in Las Vegas. With a massive $25 million guarantee, however, the Main Event will require 5,000 entries to reach that guarantee, the biggest ever guarantee in the history of online tournaments.

Taking place across just three days, there are 22 ‘freezeout’ Day 1 flights, so in theory, a player could pay an incredible $110,000 to play the same event someone could satellite in for a relative pittance. This has led to an explosion of discussion on Twitter.