WSOP on Tour: ’11-’12 Circuit Season Kicks off in Shreveport

The WSOP-Circuit has been good to many a Pokeratier and Pokeratizen alike. It’s a place where minor-league heroes are born … and some build the bankroll to live life as a real pro. With the Global poker year coming to a close this week, for so many serious players it’s time to think about starting all over and hitting the grind again.
(Only this go-round will be completely without Sunday Millions or Rush Poker bankroll supplements.)
Players get a month-and-a-half break … and then it’s off to Bossier City — “Shreveport,” we used to call it — for the beginning of the 8th incarnation of the WSOP-Circuit season. (Texas politicians take note: the Dallas market alone is so juicy that the WSOP added a second stop to serve it.)
TOURNAMENT DATES | LOCATION |
Sep 8-19, 2011 | Horseshoe Bossier City (Louisiana) |
Sep 29 – Oct 10, 2011 | Horseshoe Southern Indiana |
Oct 13-24, 2011 | Horseshoe Hammond (Chicago) |
Oct 27 – Nov 7, 2011 | IP Casino Resort & Spa (Biloxi, MS) |
Nov 10-21, 2011 | Harveys Lake Tahoe |
Dece 1-12, 2011 | Harrah’s Atlantic City |
Jan 12-23, 2012 | Choctaw Durant (Dallas/Oklahoma) |
Jan 19-30, 2012 | Caesars Palace (Las Vegas) |
Feb 2-13, 2012 | Harrah’s Tunica (Mississippi) |
Feb 16-27, 2012 | Palm Beach Kennel Club (Florida) |
Mar 1-12, 2012 | Caesars Atlantic City |
Mar 15-26, 2012 | Harrah’s Rincon (San Diego area) |
Mar 29 – Apr 9, 2012 | Horseshoe Council Bluffs (Iowa) |
Apr 12-23, 2012 | Harrah’s St. Louis |
Apr 26 – May 7, 2012 | Harrah’s Chester (Philadelphia) |
May 10 – May 21, 2012 | Harrah’s New Orleans |
Below the jump for the details on what’s different this year. New point system, adios $10ks, “12 rings in 12 days.” New stop, obv. It’s Rounders & Road Gamblers — hey, that sounds like “social gaming” — brought to you by the World Series of Poker!
[Beow-neow-neow beow-neow neow … ]
The WPT has its own version of a lower-stakes Circuit tour, of course — in similar locations — and now Epic/Heartland seems to be stepping in to make something more of the recreational-to-semi-pro players who swarm from up to 250 miles away to compete in mini-poker festivals wrapped around a $1,500-ish main event.
It’s arguably the most competitive part of the live poker landscape in the US these days. Wonder if all WSOP Circuit events will offer free Wi-Fi.