The 2024 edition of the Aria Poker Classic has been formally announced and its full schedule of events released, offering the first details on a festival that runs for 45 days beginning in late May and includes 45 separate events across a wide variety of poker formats.
This year's Aria Poker Classic begins on May 29 and runs through July 13, filling in another full-festival entry on the busier-than-ever Las Vegas summer slate. While complete structures for each of the events have yet to be published, the Aria has dropped the full schedule of events on social media:
BetMGM Championship headlines series
The largest event of the series is expected to be the BetMGM Championship, which begins its six-day run on June 6. The no-limit hold'em tourney features a $3,500 buy-in, a $3 million guarantee, three separate starting days, and live-streamed coverage on the tourney's final two days from the nearby PokerGO Studio, which is located just a couple of hundred feet outside the Aria's front doors. The BetMGM Championship's prize pool is by far the largest of the series.
All but one of the Classic's other official events offer between $100,000 and $500,000 in guaranteed prize money, with the lone exception being the closed-field, $75,000 guaranteed Women's Championship in late June that is expected to be announced as part of this summer's Ladies Poker Week festivities in Las Vegas. The Women's Championship isn't the only closed-field event on the series' slate, however, as it's joined by a $200,000 guaranteed Seniors event (50+) on June 23.
There's plenty of format variety throughout the 45 events, including several Omaha offerings, a smattering on mixed games, and plenty of wrinkles suh as mystery bounty tourneys. Mystery bounty events pop up eight separate times among the Classic's 45 events.
The 2024 Aria Poker Classic appears to have targeted a slightly higher price bracket than in earlier years, with $600, $800, and $1,100 being the most common price points. The subtle shift upward is likely in response to the heavy competition at lower-priced tourneys in Las Vegas that was prevalent last summer.
