The WSOP Circuit Returns For A New Season Starting At Choctaw Durant
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The World Series of Poker Circuit returns on July 16, the same day that events wrap up at the end of the 2025 World Series of Poker hosted by the Horseshoe and Paris Las Vegas.
The first festival of the 2025/2026 season of the WSOPC will be hosted by the Choctaw Durant in Oklahoma.
The Choctaw Durant will put on 18 ring events during the festival, plus side events and satellites. The whole thing will last for twelve days, bringing the festival to a close on July 27.
Rings To Win At the WSOP Circuit Choctaw
As always, the biggest draw of the WSOP Circuit Choctaw is the $1,700 Main Event. This is the flagship event of the series and the most prestigious.
However, if $1,700 seems a bit pricey, the Choctaw Durant is also putting on two big field, low buy in events.
WSOPC Event #3: $300 No-Limit Hold'em - Gargantuan has nine starting flights to accommodate the expected turnout. Meanwhile, WSOPC Event #14: $1,100 No-Limit Hold'em - Mini Main has just two, but at two-thirds the price of the main event, should still attract a good number of players.
There will also be closed events for seniors and ladies, and multiple $250 events for low rollers (including another round of the 40/40/40 event, which debuted last season).
The Defending Champion
The previous WSOP Circuit Choctaw was the first WSOPC festival of 2025.
Kicking off on January 6, the festival doled out 18 bracelets, one of which went to Eric Taylor for winning the Main Event.
Taylor steamed to victory at the live final table, redeeming himself for snoozing through the start of his previous WSOP final table, which had been an online mystery bounty event.
Taylor beat a field of 1,070 entries to win a $259,721 cut of the $1,621,050 prize pool. His heads up opponent was Sung Lee of Argyle, TX who won $173,145 for second place.
2024 WSOP Circuit Choctaw Main Event Final Table Results
| Place | Player | Hometown | Prize |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Eric Taylor | Frisco, TX | $259,721 |
| 2 | Sung Lee | Argyle, TX | $173,145 |
| 3 | Thomas Romeo | Walden, NY | $120,563 |
| 4 | Arthur Morris | Plano, TX | $85,387 |
| 5 | Cody Bartlett | Lincoln, NE | $61,527 |
| 6 | Kannon McCavit | Battle Creek, MI | $45,120 |
| 7 | Chang Liang Deng | Mountain House, CA | $33,686 |
| 8 | Alain Raad | -, France | $25,611 |
What's Next for the WSOPC?
With a whole new season brewing, there is plenty of action coming up on the WSOP Circuit. There are currently 17 stops scheduled for dates between now and the start of December.
After the WSOP Circuit Choctaw, the next event on the docket is a WSOP Circuit Harrah's Cherokee festival. This event kicks off on August 7 and runs until August 18.
The Cherokee event is followed by three more festivals in August — the WSOP Circuit Harrah's Atlantic City, the WSOP Circuit Graton Casino, and the WSOP Circuit Caesars New Orleans.
PokerNews will have coverage of all these events as they come.
WSOP Circuit Choctaw Schedule
*Photos courtesy WSOPC
