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As announced here on PokerNews on Friday, the World Series of Poker (WSOP) are coming back soon with an unprecedented mix of online and live games.

The action will be split between WSOP.com and GGPoker, giving players from different countries the opportunity to participate and compete in a one-of-a-kind $10,000 WSOP Main Event.

This means we are going to have an official 2020 Main Event champion in 2020, although the situation caused by the COVID pandemic will make everything...a bit different.

Continue reading to learn:

• The Schedule of the PokerNews WSOP Main Event coverage. (coming soon)

WSOP 2020 Schedule: the Main Event

Forget the long queues at the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas and the comments about the close-to-polar temperatures in the tournament room.

The largest part of the 2020 WSOP Main Event action is going to happen online with only 18 survivors being invited to play a game of live poker.

To complicate things even further, not everyone will play at the same time this year. The two poker operators set up two different schedules that converge into one final event scheduled to take place in Las Vegas on Dec. 30.

To help you keep track of what-happens-where and know what are the key dates that are relevant to you, we put together a detailed 2020 WSOP schedule with everything there is to know about this year's $10,000 Main Event.

Schedule of the 2020 WSOP Domestic Main Event

The 'domestic' Main Event is a $10,000 buy-in freezeout no-limit Texas hold'em tournament that will take place on WSOP.com.

This poker tournament will be open to all players in New Jersey and Nevada.

• The action begins on Sunday, Dec. 13, with the event's only Day 1 flight.
• The tournament will then continue on Monday, December 14, and play down to a final table of nine players.
• The final table will see all the qualifiers play down to a winner at the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, on Monday, Dec. 28.

Important Notice: You do not need to be a resident of New Jersey or Nevada to play — but you are required to be physically located in one of these two states to access the games on the WSOP.com client.

For more info about this, have a look at our guides to online poker in New Jersey and online poker in Nevada.

Schedule of the 2020 WSOP International Main Event

To allow more players to join the event and fight for the most coveted title in poker, the WSOP will run an 'international' leg of the Main Event as well.

This $10,000 freezeout tournament will take place on the GGPoker client, the same that already hosted a successful online edition of the WSOP in the summer.

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Given that the GGPoker leg of the 2020 WSOP Main Event is expected to attract a larger crowd, the organizers split the action into three starting flights.

• The action on GGPoker will begin on Sunday, Nov. 29 with the Day 1a.
• The other Day 1's will take place on Saturday, Dec. 5, and Sunday, Dec. 6.
• All the survivors will then play down to nine players on Monday, Dec. 7.
• The last nine participants will play down to a winner in a game of live poker to be held at the King's Casino in Rozvadov, on Tuesday, Dec. 16.

Should travel restrictions or a casino shutdown prevent the WSOP Main Event final table to take place in Rozvadov, the organizer announced they will consider moving the event online or rescheduling it to a later date.

Keep in mind that each player can only play one Day 1, so you won't be able to re-enter the tournament after you are eliminated.

The 2020 WSOP Main Event Heads-Up Finale

The winner of both the 'domestic' and the 'international' legs of this unprecedented 2020 WSOP Main Event will then play in a special Heads-Up Finale that will take place at the Rio on Wednesday, Dec. 30.

The winner of this adrenaline-packed game will walk away with an added $1,000,000 cash prize, a bracelet, and the title of 2020 WSOP Main Event champion.

WSOP 2020 Schedule: FAQs

This year's competition is split between the WSOP.com poker client and the GGPoker client, with both operators sunning tournaments at different times.

The action at WSOP.com (New Jersey and Nevada players only) begins on Dec. 13, 2020. More info here.

The action at GGPoker begins on Nov. 29. More info here.

The final table of the 'domestic' 2020 WSOP Main Event will take place at the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, on Monday, Dec. 28, 2020.

The final table of the 'international' 2020 WSOP Main Event will take place at the Kings Casino in Rozvadov, Czech Republic, on Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2020.

The US-only tournament to be hosted on the WSOP.com platform feature a single Day 1 on December 13, 2020.

The GGPoker leg of the 2020 WSOP Main Event features three starting flights:

• Day 1 A: Sunday, Nov. 29
• Day 1 B: Saturday, Dec. 5
• Day 1 C: Sunday, Dec.6

Despite the three starting flights, players will be allowed to enter only a single Day 1.

The 2020 WSOP Heads Up Finale will see the winner of the 'domestic' and the 'international' WSOP Main Event play down to a final winner.

The event will take place at the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas on Wednesday, Dec. 30. More info here.

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The second of three starting days of the 2020 World Series of Poker World Championship $10,000 Main Event at GGPoker is in the books with 42 players out of 171 entries advancing to Day 2.

This increases the total field size to 417 entries with 104 contenders through thus far when taking into account the 246 entrants and 62 survivors on Day 1a.

The prize pool has already grown to more than $4.1 million with the likely busiest starting day of the international portion still to come on Sunday, Dec. 6, 2020, on GGPoker.

Slovenia's Blaz Zerjav claimed the overall lead after accumulating a stack of 639,394 on Day 1b. Fellow Day 1b big stacks Rodrigo 'sauvage' Valente (592,043) and Amir '8ty4calling8' Dvir (538,003) also surpassed the Day 1a chip leader Julian 'VWgunther' Menhardt as well.

Others ending Day 1b with healthy chip stacks included Artem 'Ar0wana' Vezhenkov (511,114), Javier Gomez (427,190), Qibing 'degenkaliu' Wang (392,108), and Brazil's Diego 'TeaLover' Falcone (341,782).

The Day 1b Top 10 at a Glance

Just outside of the top 10 for Day 1b is Sweden's Simon Lofberg, who is one of three WSOP bracelet winners that advanced through tonight. Lofberg won his maiden gold bracelet in the 2020 GGPoker WSOP Online Bracelet Events Event #40: $2,500 Pot Limit Omaha and bagged a very healthy 323,563 in chips.

Ireland's Toby 'shinerrr' Joyce follows not far behind with 243,195 and also won the coveted gold bracelet during the online festival on GGPoker earlier this year. Last but not least, 2019 Event #57 $1,000 Tag Team No-Limit Hold'em winner Barak 'LuckySecret' Wisbrod bagged up 177,386 in the virtual arena.

Other notables who will return for Day 2 include Thomas 'MickeyM' Boivin (295,681), Sergio Aido (270,355), Luigi 'shadinho94' Shehadeh (256,730), Diego 'Ushuaia1' Zeiter (245,830), Alexandre 'STAY_HUNGRY' Reard (216,609), Anton 'RUN_CMD' Wigg (210,608), Ivan 'Cordialement' Deyra (148,142), Simon 'FiestaPagana' Mattsson (131,241), and Alex Difelice (114,802).

The list of well-known casualties throughout the 16 levels of 30 minutes each contains such familiar names as Robin 'porty27' Ylitalo, Gleb 'IamMVP' Tremzin, Anton 'storytellerA' Morgenstern, Niall Farrell, Niklas Astedt, Adrian Mateos, Daria 'Scarlett_D' Feshchenko, Nicolas Chouity, Dzmitry Urbanovich, and Jean-Noel 'OscarBrown' Thorel.

Two known WSOP bracelet winners were also among those to take part and leave empty-handed including Ravid 'jerbi9999' Garbi and Jens Kyllonen. Meanwhile, GGPoker ambassador Felipe Ramos and GGSquad streamer Kevin Martin also failed to punch their tickets for Day 2 as well.

The Action of the Day

It was a slow start at the tables and yet, the first elimination would take place at the end of the first blind levels. Pocket kings were directly involved in the first four bustouts, accounting for three losing and one winning hand. Jesse 'AAGenius88' Mercado was the first to bow out when he ran with kings into aces and failed to catch any help.

Kevin Martinwas among the first high-profile casualties when his jack-nine suited flopped top pair and rivered a ten-high straight only for Amir '8ty4calling8' Dvir to show the nut straight. In the next level former WSOP Main Event finalist Sylvain Loosli ran with queens into aces and found no help.

The rockets belonged to Daan 'DaanOss' Mulders in his final hand when Niall Farrell turned a ten-high straight and the Dutchman could not get away from it anymore on the river. Another premium pocket belonged to Jean-Noel 'OscarBrown' Thorel when kings ended up second-best to the ace-queen of Dante Goya, and Adrian Mateos ended up second-best with aces against eights-full.

However, Goya and Farrell would also join the rail throughout the day. The Brazilian lost a big chunk with a set of aces and could not mount a comeback anymore. As far as Farrell is concerned, he was left short after a clash with Thomas 'MickeyM' Boivin and lost a flip to Sergio Aido, who made quads nines.

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By then, GGPoker ambassador Felipe Ramos was already on the rail after losing a flip with ace-ten suited versus pocket eights. Blaz Zerjav soared to the top of the leaderboard when he knocked out Anton 'storytellerA' Morgenstern with the superior kicker and Robin 'porty27' Ylitalo then succumbed in the final level of the night when sixes could not crack aces.

All Day 1b survivors now have one day off to potentially focus on a busy Super Sunday schedule and will return on Monday, Dec. 7, 2020, at 1 p.m EST for the start of Day 2. One starting day remains for players on the GGPoker Network to join the event and the PokerNews live reporting team will be back then to provide all the action from start to finish.

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