World Series of Poker 2025 Dates Announced
The World Series of Poker (WSOP) has announced the 2025 dates for its popular series of tournaments: May 27 through July 16, 2025.
The WSOP will again be held at Horseshoe and Paris.
Oh, crap, that’s really not enough news for an entire blog post. Let the padding begin!
There is a smidge more to the story, actually.
This will be the first time in many years the WSOP is under new ownership. Caesars Entertainment sold the WSOP to NSUS Group for $500 million.
The sale of WSOP was completed in Oct. 2024.
Caesars Entertainment acquired the WSOP brand in 2004 (Caesars Entertainment was Harrah’s Entertainment at the time) when the company owned Binion’s Horseshoe for a minute. Caesars acquired the Horseshoe brand as well. Now, Binion’s is just Binion’s.
Caesars Entertainment will continue to operate the World Series of Poker for the foreseeable future, so the ownership change is really only relevant if you’re asked who owns the WSOP on a game show.
Caesars is selling off “non-core” assets to pay down its debt. The company also sold Linq Promenade.
The World Series is sort of the Grand Poobah of poker tournaments.
For our fellow youths, “Grand Poobah” refers to someone of high importance. The term comes from the character Pooh-Bah in Gilbert and Sullivan’s “The Mikado,” a comic opera first performed in 1885.
The popularity of “comic operas” came to an abrupt halt following the advent of absolutely anything else to do but attending comic operas.
Our filler continues by regurgitating some information from a WSOP news release.
The WSOP has awarded more than $4 billion in prize money over the last 60 years.
In 2024, WSOP’s flagship event in Las Vegas attracted 229,553 entrants and more than $438 million in prize money was awarded.
In the last 60 years, 84% of WSOP winners wore hoodies and 91% rarely get invited to dinner parties due to their incessant grumbling.
No woman has ever won the World Series of Poker Main Event, mostly because they tend to be pleasant and bathe regularly.
We kid because we love!
WSOP’s series of tournaments culminates in the Grand Poobah (handy, right, fellow youths?) of the event’s aforementioned Main Event.
The Main Event Final Table happens July 15-16, 2025 inside the Horseshoe Events Center.
This is the part of our story where we humbly mention we shared two years before an official announcement the WSOP would be moving from Rio to the then-Bally’s, now Horseshoe.
Find out more about the World Series of Poker on the official Web site where you are invited to try and say the name Soheb Porbandarwala five times fast.
Note: If you’re bothered by the fact we just poked fun at a funny name, maybe you need to direct your indignation toward those culturally-appropriating asshats Gilbert and Sullivan. They exoticized Japan and their use of racial stereotypes is definitely cause for outrage, especially if it keeps us from being canceled for the sixth time this week. We are hereby going on the record as being completely in support of a boycott against “The Mikado.”
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