The partnership works for both parties as 888poker will get to be an official WSOP online satellite venue and included in ESPN footage of the event.
The WSOP will get sponsorship for their live reporting and content plus a gaming platform for the WSOP online bracelet and satellite tournaments.
The World Series of Poker will handle all it’s own live reporting including final table live streaming of more than sixty scheduled bracelet events. According to Seth Palansky, WSOP Communications/PR Executive, there will be a capable team of 35 reporters handling the 2015 WSOP live updates.
For over a decade the PokerNews team handled the live reporting for each event with a shared traffic agreement with the WSOP and sponsorship from PokerStars. There was a conflict of interests when the WSOP online software launched and PokerStars withdrew their sponsorship.
The event was originally going to be played on the WSOP online software until the final two remaining players would battle it out in a live heads-up tournament at the WSOP for the bracelet.
The WSOP online bracelet event is still going to take place regardless of what critics think about it, but there are going to be a few changes from the original format.
The online tournament will now play down to the final six players who will make up the final table live at the WSOP. The live event will also be rescheduled from the 3rd to the 4th July.
After a survey conducted by the World Series of Poker results showed that more players were in favor of a flatter payout structure than a top heavy guaranteed prize.
There will be more players cashing in the Main Event than ever before in the history of WSOP. The top 15% of the playing field will now reach the money positions.
The 46th Annual World Series of Poker will return to the Rio Casino for the eleventh year, the 2014 WSOP Main Event guaranteed $10 Million for first place prize and will do so again this year.
The longest running poker tournament in history will run for 49 consecutive days with more than 60 WSOP bracelet events on the schedule.
There is a new opening event added, WSOP The Colossus tournament is the lowest buy-in event in the series and will attract more players than ever before.
The 2015 WSOP schedule includes: The Colossus, Millionaire Maker, Monster Stack, Seniors Championship, Ladies Championship, WSOP ONE DROP High Roller and Little One for ONE DROP.
