The 2020 WSOP Main Event is underway and American players have an opportunity to compete to become the next poker world champion. But you can’t get into the action quite yet unless you live outside the US.

Are you ready for the 2020 WSOP Main Event? (Image: WSOP.com)

You might be a bit confused if you paid attention to the WSOP Online Bracelet Series this past summer. Stoyan Madanzhiev took down the historic World Series of Poker Main Event on GGPoker for $3.9 million in September. He won what many assumed was the 2020 WSOP Main Event.

Yes, he did win that record-setting tournament that had over $27 million in the pot, most ever in online poker history. But the WSOP refused to acknowledge the winner as the 2020 world champion as it was a $5,000 buy-in tournament. So, we now have a new version of the annual world championship event. The buy-in for this one is the standard $10,000, it’s a freezeout, and the tournament is being played both online and live.