What’s Happening in the Sixth Week of the 2025 World Series?
The sixth week of the 2025 World Series of Poker (WSOP) features just nine WSOP bracelet events, but with the $10,000-entry WSOP Main Event World Championship being one of them, it’s the biggest week of the poker calendar. Who will take over from Jonathan Tamayo as world champion and which poker legend will win the $100,000 PLO High Roller? We’ll find out in the next seven days.
Early Events go Big and Small
Three events kick off before the $10,000-entry WSOP Main Event, with buy-ins of $600, $10,000 and a massive $100,000. The smallest of those three tournaments is still likely to be very popular, as the No Limit Hold’em PokerNews Deepstack Championship kicks off on Tuesday at 10am, with thousands of players expected to fill seats at the Horseshoe Las Vegas and Paris casinos.
The $10,000 Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo 8 or Better Championship begins on Monday afternoon at 2pm Las Vegas time and will feature some of the best mixed games players in the world. Could Shaun Deeb land his seventh WSOP title and first of the summer? Will Jason Mercier bring the Florida ‘heat’ back like its 2016 when he won the H.O.R.S.E. Championship and win his seventh in the process? It’s sure to be unmissable for PokerStake backers with many favorites selling to the event on the site.
The $100,000 buy-in PLO High Roller is going to separate the great from the simply ‘very, very good’. Pot Limit Omaha tournaments this series have seen some absolute crushers dominate and the ‘four-card game’ has never been more popular. Numbers are on the up in PLO events in general, and this $100k tournament – effectively a super high roller event in PLO – could be an excellent gauge for the upper limits in this discipline.
The Main Event is About to Kick Off
16 bracelet events with buy-ins of between $300 and $50,000. The jewel in the crown of the 56th annual WSOP is of course the $10,000-entry Main Event. This year’s World Championship starts on Wednesday as the first of the daily Day 1 flights kicks off with two-hour levels and the best structure in the world.
Will there be another repeat winner after the heroics of Shiina Okamoto and Aaron Cummings already in 2025? Each of those players have won gold in 2025 after doing so 12 months earlier, so the pressure and expectation will be on Jonathan Tamayo, who may play Day 1a from 12 noon on Wednesday.
This is, of course, the first year featuring the new ‘Tamayo’ ruling. After Tamayo had help on the rail last year with Dominik Nitsche and others assisting via a laptop packed with GTO information, the WSOP brought in a new ruling. Any technology on the rail is banned and this could lead to some major disagreements down the line in the Main Event.
What Else is On This Week?
The NLHE Summer Celebration begins on Wednesday too and costs considerably less than the Main Event at $800. Along with the $2,500 NLHE Freezeout starting on Thursday, the $1,000 NLHE Event starting on Friday and the $600-entry NLHE Ultra Stack beginning on Saturday, it’s a week for No Limit Hold’em lovers, and has something for any budget with that variety of entry levels.
It’s not all about No Limit fun, however. The 6-Max Eight Game Mixed Championship begins on Wednesday at 2pm as mixed game specialists will gather in a three-day event that should give the winner time to rest before taking on the Main Event in one of the final flights.
With a superb set of events on the horizon this week, who will put themselves in a position to push for glory in the World Championship, seal a NLHE Crown or take home a mixed game championship worth hundreds of thousands of dollars? We can’t wait to find out.
WSOP 2025 Week #6 Events:
| Date | Time | # | Tournament Details | Entry |
| Mon June 30 | 2pm | 77 | Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo 8 or Better Championship | $10,000 |
| Tue July 1 | 10am | 78 | NLHE PokerNews Deepstack Championship | $600 |
| Tue July 1 | 2pm | 79 | PLO High Roller | $100,000 |
| Wed July 2 | 10am | 80 | NLHE Summer Celebration | $800 |
| Wed July 2 | Noon | 81 | NLHE Main Event World Championship | $10,000 |
| Wed July 2 | 2pm | 82 | 6-Max Eight Game Mixed Championship | $10,000 |
| Thu July 3 | 2pm | 83 | NLHE Freezeout | $2,500 |
| Fri July 4 | 5pm | 84 | No-Limit Hold’em | $1,000 |
| Sun July 6 | 10am | 85 | NLHE Ultra Stack | $600 |