At long last, the 2020 WSOP Main Event has been finalized, but the world championship of poker is going to look significantly different this year. Despite COVID-19, players from all around the world will have an opportunity to compete.

The 2020 WSOP Main Event is going to have a different feel to it. (Image: WSOP.com)

The annual summer bracelet series in Las Vegas was canceled due to the global health pandemic. Instead, organizers for the event ran an online bracelet series mixed between WSOP.com and GGPoker. They even hosted a Main Event which set an online poker record with over $27 million in the prize pool.

But few considered Stoyan Madanzhiev, the winner of that event on GGPoker, the true world champion. Ty Stewart, the WSOP’s executive director, said in a press release Friday that, “there must be a world champion in 2020.” So, on Nov. 29, the quest for the 2020 WSOP Main Event champion begins on the GGPoker poker site. And it will end Dec. 30 at the Rio, in front of a live television audience.