WSOP-Style 2024
No Prizes, No Cash, Just Fun
With the exception of the May 28th and July 5th events, there were no prizes. The May 28th tournament had six players, so two places paid: jrx won $100 for finishing first and smalltalkdan won $45 for coming in second. The July 5th event had sixteen players1, so four places paid: smalltalkdan won $100, tegwin won $65 in second place, jpmassar $45 in third and JADC🚴 received $35 for fourth.
Overview
The WSOP-Style Series is a set of free tournaments one per day, from May 28th through July 17th. Those are the days the World Series of Poker are being held in Las Vegas, Nevada and the World Series of Poker prov6ides the inspiration for this series.
This series is not even remotely affiliated with the World Series of Poker.
This series does, however, use modified versions of the World Series of Poker tournament structures for each of the daily tournaments, with the exception of July 5th (see below). All of the craftpoker.com WSOP-Style tournaments are played in one day, with five minute breaks every hour. Each starts at 5:05 pm Pacific time (8:05 pm Eastern).
Late registration varies per tournament, but is always available for at least thirty-five minutes after the tournament starts.
Many tournaments allow one or more re-entries.
All are welcome
All events in this series are open to the public.
No Early Start on Weekend
Unlike 2022 and 2023, when the weekend tournaments started two hours earlier than the weekday tournaments, all WSOP-Style Series tournaments in 2024 start at the same time (5:05 pm Pacific).
Round Duration
All levels will be five minutes long.
There will be a five minute break that will start after each table has completed a hand at 55 minutes past the hour or later. That means the last table to finish a hand at 55 minutes past the hour or later will get exactly a five minute breaks and all other tables will be paused while waiting for that table to finish a hand.
Leaderboard
There is a "WSOPS 2024 Leaderboard" entry in the Leaderboard menu available in the lobby. By default, only players with a net Fun Money win show up on leaderboards, but if you've played and have a net loss, you can see your entry by having the shift key held down when you select an entry from the Leaderboard menu.
The Tournaments
The link in the "W#" column is a link to the actual World Series of Poker structure sheet. The link in the "Event" column is a link to the Mb2 structure sheet.
July 5th
Since July 5th has no World Series of Poker tournament play, July 5th is a BARGE inspired structure, "SAM_6", a four game mix of:
"Sam_6" was the nickname of David Lawful, a generous member of BARGE. He liked to play odd games, although he was a formidable opponent in all and a BARGE main event winner (2013).
One player entered twice, using separate nicknames. His second entry took second place, but by mutual agreement we decided to not include his second entry in the prize money. I will make that explicit in future series.
I botched and we played nine-handed, rather than eight-handed. When I was setting up the the WSOP-Style series this year, I thought I could re-use the structure from last year's #94, because I thought they were the same event. They were the same in all respects, except this year's event was 8-handed IRL (but 9-handed due to my mistake). Oh well.