Daniel Weinman (center) celebrates after winning the 2023 WSOP Main Event, the biggest poker tournament in history. He’s surely just as excited to learn that PokerGo will be airing more than 300 hours of the World Series this summer. (Image: Steve Marcus/Associated Press/Alamy)

In just over a month, the 2024 World Series of Poker will begin its summertime stay in the sunshine of Nevada. At both Horseshoe and Paris Las Vegas, the 55^th renewal of poker’s greatest tournament will begin with nearly 100 official tournaments scheduled for action. Of those 100 tournaments, the streaming outlet PokerGO announced that it will serve as the official live coverage outlet of the 2024 WSOP, broadcasting daily and offering over 300 hours of coverage on its channel.

Coverage of All Major Events 

A total of 30 tournaments are set for the streaming fans over PokerGO, including the fourteen-day marathon that is the $10,000 Championship Event (otherwise known as the “Main Event”). From July 3-17, PokerGO will be livestreaming (over a 30-minute delay, to preserve game integrity) the action directly from the floors of both Horseshoe and Paris Las Vegas. That two weeks of coverage will culminate in the crowning of poker’s next World Champion and that winner should walk away with somewhere around $10 million in prize money.

That will not be the only thing that PokerGO covers this summer. All the major championships, including the $50,000 Poker Players’ Championship, the $250,000 High Roller Championship, and the $25,000 Heads-Up Championship. Not to just focus on the “big” tournaments, PokerGO will also train their streaming cameras on the more populist events such as the $1500 “Monster Stack,” the $1500 “Millionaire Maker” and the $1000 Ladies World Championship. 

PokerGO is available through several of the major streaming modes that are available. Android and iPhone devices, AppleTV, Roku, and Amazon Fire TV all offer the PokerGO app that will bring customers the broadcasts, as will PokerGO’s dedicated website PokerGO.com. These outlets all are a paid subscription, available through the PokerGO website for purchase and currently available for a $20 discount on a year’s subscription. Selected tournaments will also be broadcast over the PokerGO YouTube channel for free. 

2024 WSOP Expected to Once Again Set Records

The 2023 World Series of Poker shattered records for one of the venerable events not only in poker but also in Las Vegas. Ninety-five bracelet events were contested during last summer’s battles, with 215,088 entries registered in those tournaments. The biggest event, at least by entries, was also the cheapest event as the $300 “Gladiators of Poker” brought in 23,088 runners to take on the challenge, and four other tournaments saw more than 10,000 entries.

The money also freely flowed during the 2023 WSOP. Players put up $440,562,594 during the run of the schedule, with over $400 million ($401,837,583) going back to the players in the form of prize money (nearly $39 million was scraped for the “juice,” or the administrative fees, charged by Horseshoe and Paris Las Vegas, and dealer and staff payments). Over $66 million would go to the eventual champions of the events, with fifteen tournaments handing out million-dollar paydays and two other bounty awards of $1 million during the Mystery Millions. 

The 2023 $10,000 Championship No-Limit Hold’em Event shattered the record for the most players to ever enter the tournament. With no re-entries allowed, 10,043 players put their money on the line, topping the 8,773 players that came out in 2006, and building nearly a $100 million prize pool. Of those 10k entrants, 1,508 players took home at least the minimum payday of $15,000, while eventual champion Daniel Weinman scooped up the World Championship title and a $12.1 million first-place prize. (This award broke the record for the biggest Championship Event payday of $12 million that went to Jamie Gold in 2006).

In 2024, the WSOP will look to top itself and they should do it. Running from May 28 through July 17, the 700 tables in Horseshoe and Paris Las Vegas will be chocked full of players who will flood the playing arenas. Those tables will be filled with players from around the world, many of them who might have qualified over satellites that are currently running on online casino and poker sites such as GGPoker. Over those seven weeks, 99 tournaments will play out that should bring in monstrous crowds, and PokerGO will be there to bring to the world all the action of the 2024 World Series of Poker.