Event #32: $1,000 Seniors No-Limit Hold'em Championship: Day 1 Begins at 10.00am
The four-day Event #32: $1,000 Seniors No-Limit Hold'em Championship begins today at 10 a.m.
Every year, thousands of players convene in Las Vegas for this over-50’s event, with attendance growing steadily over the last few Series. This year, field size predictions from Seniors players themselves tend into the upper 6,000's; we’ll know by the end of late registration (Level 8, around 8:15 p.m.) what kind of odds the 2019 WSOP Seniors champion will have to overcome to win a bracelet this year.
To reach Day 2, today’s competitors will play through 10 one-hour levels, with a 75-minute dinner break scheduled after Level 6 (around 4:40 p.m.). The slow structure has players start out with 20,000 in chips, blinds starting at 100/100, with one re-entry available.
Last year’s winner Matthew Davis saw off international competition from a 5,918-strong field to take the Seniors’ bracelet and $662,676. Bill Stabler, who finished second, had made a Senior Event final table in 2012; this event attracts returning players year on year. Entrants take on the largest Senior field available as part of a larger WSOP tournament schedule, combined with Event #39 ($1,000 Super Seniors No-Limit Hold’em) or as a standalone event.
As George Bernard Shaw - and Doyle Brunson - famously said, “We don’t stop playing because we grow old. We grow old because we stop playing,” and no one can accuse Senior runners of the latter.