2025 Las Vegas Summer Series - non-WSOP

Most unfortunate copy/paste. ☺️

We found a few other things too, post-release. It's amazing how we put 5 sets of eyes on these, found tons of errors that were corrected and we continue to find more with every fresh look.

Adjustments are coming, but I don't dare put a timeline on when they'll get published.

Diligent work starts first thing in the AM though.

Ouch. 20% house take for mystery bounty event.

And no dinner break.

Hello,

I’ve noticed that in many tournaments (for example, the Opening Grand Stack on May 27), it is stated that the top finishers will win a $1,200 ticket for the Goldenaire starting on June 25.

Here are my questions:

1- Are the $1,200 tickets deducted from the prize pool? For example, if first place is supposed to pay $10,000, does the winner actually receive $8,800 and a $1,200 ticket?

2- What happens to players who win this ticket but won’t be in Vegas at the time of the Goldenaire? This applies to many players who are not locals. Do they simply lose the $1,200 ?

Thank you for your answers

Surprisingly, most of the 1 day tournaments have their rakes lower than industry standard so that's nice.

I saw 400 mixed with 15.75% (normally 17.5%+ nowadays) and 600 mixed eith 10.7% (unheard of in today's environment) so bravo.

The 2 day ones seem mostly aligned with rest of industry, maybe slightly high depending what you're comparing with.

There were some structures i saw go from 30-60k to 50-75k. The 5ks arent removed yet so why not just do 40-80k?

Some wrong dates, I believe. Event #11 is not June 16.

Appreciate you being on here to hear/respond to feedback, Jay.

One question on the structures: What % of the field is ITM in the daily events? I see it's listed in multi-day but isn't on the daily structures I've looked at.

missed this one initially. Sorry!

$300 is the smallest bounty

The seats are funded from "promo", so no....not from prize pool.

Any cash added to one of these finishers is from the overall prize pool.

If you win a seat and cannot make it, its unfortunately not transferrable and will just be forfeited.

12.5% rounded up

will adjust. thank you!

Thank you. Why no dinner break?

2/3 of the flights wouldn't have one (3 pm & 7 pm flights), and we want consistency across all flights.

This event historically hasn't had dinner breaks.

Most events across vegas and even across the nation/world are going to a dinner less break. Since people would rather just play 11am to 10pm and not have a rushed dinner break. Seems most are happy with that. I don't know how people go without eating a real meal for that long playing poker.

We have a Chick Fil A on-property, plus we're right on Fremont St which has other quick food options. Also have sandwiches and snacks available via servers. Plenty of options to quickly get a bite to eat during these events.

Yeah, no. Walking to a place, standing in line, ordering food, waiting for food, and eating food all in 15 minutes isn’t feasible.

We're fat. I can go 2 days easy without eating.

If you time it right, you can beat the lines to Chick Fil A and bring the food back to eat at the table.

It isn't perfect, but it's been done.

I think a balance can be struck. The 75-90 minute dinner breaks at the WSOP have their perks, but honestly, pretty much all WSOP events are too long.

In other “shorter” events, I don’t mind a 30-minute extended break around 6:00. It’s certainly not enough time to have a full sit-down meal at most restaurants in Vegas. But it is enough time to get something to eat and decompress a little. And honestly, if events went to 10-minute standard breaks instead of 15, then a 30 minute dinner break would not extend the day much.

A single 30-minute extended break could also be used to do a single color up for day 1. I’m guessing it’s a security thing, but outside that, I never understood why it was mandatory to do a color up immediately when a certain denomination of chips becomes unnecessary. These things can wait a bit.

Aria structure sheet is finally out: https://drive.google.com/drive/mobile/fo...

Back in the day of the Phamous series, Planet Hollywood used to send servers from the cafe and PF Chang’s (I think?) to the tourney area to take lunch orders and they’d deliver takeout to everybody. Worked great.

This is a great idea!!

WSOP must consider to implement!!

Just what we need more sloppy hand food being eaten at the table during a tournament. SMH

Understandably almost none of the venues other than possibly Wynn or Venetian really have adequate room in the tournament area's for food /drink caddies, cart holders and lets face it people are often slobs. Additionally poker chips aren't exactly the most hygienic items to begin with.

A 30-40 minute break after 6 hours of play time is adequate to grab SOMETHING and that only increases the tournament time by 15 - 25 minutes if you already schedule a 15 minute break and do one of the chip color ups during that extended interval is absolutely the way to go.

I actually hate a 30-45 minute break. Give me 75-90 or give me nothing.

The more we talk, the more I think you and I think very similarly. I don't LIKE players eating at the table, especially fried chicken and fries.....but it's something they CAN do if they feel the need to eat.

Adding ANY more time to the tournament then has adverse affects on rake needed to support it. Adding 15-25 minutes is another down the dealers are required to be paid, thus increasing the amount of rake that is needed to support this. I think we're in a pretty decent spot this year in terms of rake, I'd prefer to not go back to being "among the worst rakes in town".

For every person that wants to add a dinner break for these shorter events, you're going to have at LEAST one that prefers to not have it. We'll never be able to please everyone, but we're trying to do what we feel makes the most sense with all the variables involved.

wanted to add my voice to the props for you being in the thread and being responsive, BJP, it's very appreciated