S-Points: Vegas Summer Tournament Structure Analysis
Every year I update my site with structure data from all the Vegas summer poker tournament series and calculate S-Points
I don't add Stud/Draw games, but my calculator will work for them.
My focus has been on giving people a way to compare different tournament structures and playing in the best ones. There are so few stud/draw games that if you want to play in one of them, you really don't have much of a choice, you have to play in what is available during your time in Vegas.
Again, though, my calculator and S-Point will work for those tournaments. I just add Omaha and Hold em to my site.
We were 10 handed for sure last year.
Golden Nugget structures - but for some unknown reason not for ALL their events
https://www.goldennugget.com/las-vegas/c...
Edit - geez the put them all out only on X in a drop box link - not their own website ?
Bookmarked this page last summer and it saved me a ton of time figuring out which series were worth traveling for. The structure gaps between WSOP and some of the smaller room series are pretty wild when you put them side by side like this. Curious to see how Venetian looks this year since they tweaked their starting stacks a few months back. Appreciate you keeping this updated annually, it's one of the more useful resources on the whole forum.
Will update my site with Golden Nugget tomorrow. When those are loaded I will be able to produce my comparison page that will show how everyone is doing compared to everyone else and which casinos have the best structures for price ranges:
Will update my site with Golden Nugget tomorrow. When those are loaded I will be able to produce my comparison page that will show how everyone is doing compared to everyone else and which casinos have the best structures for price ranges:
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Site completely updated for 2026.
Nugget is up, analysis page is complete. If you find any issues with my site let me know and good luck in Vegas this year.
You are amazing Plog! Thank you so much! Your site is incredibly valuable for anyone planning a tournament schedule during the WSOP.
PLOG or anyone - does anyone have a link for the Orleans structures?
Appreciate the work on this every year, always one of the first things I check when planning the summer trip. WSOP structures at the $1K to $1.5K range have felt shallower than they used to be relative to some of the Venetian and Wynn equivalents, and the S-Point breakdowns usually back that up. Would be curious where the Bally's/Paris events land once those sheets drop.
downunder66 -> Can You Get This Out posted a link to the Orleans structures in this thread about a month ago:
https://mc-d7f7cc1f-1a7c-4fc5-b531-6087-...
TournamentDataGuy -> Looks like most of the $1500 at WSOP remained the same structure from last year except for the 6 Handed event:
2026 #18 Monster = 162
2026 #13 6 Handed = 97
2026 #50 Millionaire Maker = 141
2026 #65 = 102
2026 #93 = 82
2025 #37 Monster = 162
2025 #22 6 Handed = 136
2025 #53 Millionaire Maker = 141
2025 #52 = 102
2025 #97 = 82
Appreciate the work on this every year, always one of the first things I check when planning the summer trip. WSOP structures at the $1K to $1.5K range have felt shallower than they used to be relative to some of the Venetian and Wynn equivalents, and the S-Point breakdowns usually back that up. Would be curious where the Bally's/Paris events land once those sheets drop.
At least for the window I'm in Vegas, really disagree, the Wynn shallowed their structures up pretty badly. I was really looking forward to the $1600 2M guarantee multiday event, and it has 66 S-points, which is less than the $500 WSOP freezeout event, and less even than the other single-day events I was looking at (Aria $800 single day has 73, Venetian $800 single day has 71 as examples, even MGM $400 Grand Stack single day has 73 as well, Aria $1600 single day has 77). The Wynn $1100 single day is 62 points also. They went from tourneys I was very excited to play to not very excited at all.
At least for the window I'm in Vegas, really disagree, the Wynn shallowed their structures up pretty badly. I was really looking forward to the $1600 2M guarantee multiday event, and it has 66 S-points, which is less than the $500 WSOP freezeout event, and less even than the other single-day events I was looking at (Aria $800 single day has 73, Venetian $800 single day has 71 a
My personal window is Mid June to Early July and honestly I have pretty much eliminated events at ARIA, MGM WYNN and only 1 @ the Golden Nugget as decent S value for the buy in level (GN $600 Championship is a 99).
You can find several +100 at the Venetian in the $1,100 to $800 range (Event 74 at $800 and 103 may be the best "bargain"). To even get a +100 rating at Aria or Wynn you are looking at a minimum $2200 PLUS buy in and the MGM doesn't have anything over the aforementioned 73.
The WSOP events are best value is probably the Senior and Super Senior @$1,000 and S 133 but that eliminates many players initially (AGE) However the Milly Maker $1500 S 141 is reasonable still. For all of my own more modest entries I am playing Orleans - $400 between S of 81 to 77 is solid value.
Thanks again to PLOG for all the effort - It certainly helps me make financially reasonable decisions with my Tournament budget
[QUOTE=TournamentDataGuy;59311388]At least for the window I'm in Vegas, really disagree, the Wynn shallowed their structures up pretty badly. I was really looking forward to the $1600 2M guarantee multiday event, and it has 66 S-points, which is less than the $500 WSOP freezeout event, and less even than the other single-day events I was looking at (Aria $800 single day has 73,
Yes, I noticed this as well. It looks like the Wynn has removed the 1500-2500 and 15, 000-25, 000 levels from their structure for their 30k chips 1-day NLH events, resulting in 50% jumps after level 10 and level 19. Meanwhile the Venetian $1, 100 1-day NLH starts with 40k chips, but they skip the 300-500 level, so there's a 50% jump after level 3. The extra 10k in chips still gives the edge to Venetian.
It would seem that Wynn might be a victim of their own success, as so many players were choosing their 1-day events over Venetian and Aria that they found their tournaments running too long and felt the need to find a way to trim off time.
At least for the window I'm in Vegas, really disagree, the Wynn shallowed their structures up pretty badly. I was really looking forward to the $1600 2M guarantee multiday event, and it has 66 S-points, which is less than the $500 WSOP freezeout event, and less even than the other single-day events I was looking at (Aria $800 single day has 73, Venetian $800 single day has 71 a
Yup, I came in here to say this. I like playing at the Wynn despite its distance from Paris but I won't be making a trip there this year. How the **** do you have $1100 tournaments and 30 min levels every time?
Minor bitch:
I wish the WSOP also thought about their scheduling a bit better. Ill be there for the monster, but due to work I have to play day D. I can only take a weekish off, so if I make it to the beginning of day 3 ill only get maybe 1 other buy in ($600 NL/PLO) and id go straight from one to another. I suppose there is another $1500 PLO later that week, but the Collosus runs too long. A 5-800$ buy in that starts Thursday would be perfect.
I understand it cant be perfect but its like I have to bust day 1 twice in a row to get 3 reasonable buyins in a 9 day span. Welp, daily deepstacks or Venetian here I come...
I played too and it was 10 handed on day 1, but I think it was the only 10 handed table I had all summer. I don't think it will be this year. Last year they were short on dealers because of a massive day 2 restart for either the Milly Maker or Monster Stack that ran the same weekend.
