Online poker play online. The 2010 WSOP Main Event will kick off on July 5th, bucking a trend of beginning before the Fourth of July. The final table will be determined on July 17th and the third installment of the November Nine will take to the felts at the Rio from November 6th to 9th in what will likely be a similar schedule to this year.

Players will purportedly be assigned a starting day for the Main Event to avoid a fiasco like the one that unfolded on Day 1D in 2009, when more than 500 poker hopefuls were shut out after the tournament reached capacity.

Without further delay, here is the 2010 WSOP schedule of events.

All times are local:

Fri, May 28th at 12:00pm
Event #1: Casino Employees No Limit Hold’em
$500 buy-in

Fri, May 28th at 5:00pm
Event #2: The Player’s Championship
$50,000 buy-in

Sat, May 29th at 12:00pm
Event #3: No Limit Hold’em
$1,000 buy-in

Sun, May 30th at 5:00pm
Event #4: Omaha High-Low Split-8 or Better
$1,500 buy-in

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Mon, May 31st at 12:00pm
Event #5: No Limit Hold’em
$1,500 buy-in

Tue, Jun 1st at 12:00pm
Event #6: No Limit Hold’em Shootout (2,000 players max)
$5,000 buy-in

Tue, Jun 1st at 5:00pm
Event #7: 2-7 Triple Draw Lowball (Limit)
$2,500 buy-in

Wed, Jun 2nd at 12:00pm
Event #8: No Limit Hold’em
$1,500 buy-in

Thu, Jun 3rd at 12:00pm
Event #9: Pot Limit Hold’em
$1,500 buy-in

Thu, Jun 3rd at 5:00pm
Event #10: Seven Card Stud Championship
$10,000 buy-in

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Fri, Jun 4th at 11:00am
Event #11: No Limit Hold’em
$1,500 buy-in

Fri, Jun 4th at 11:00am
Event #12: Limit Hold’em
$1,500 buy-in

Sat, Jun 5th at 11:00am
Event #13: No Limit Hold’em
$1,000 buy-in

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Sat, Jun 5th at 5:00pm
Event #14: 2-7 Draw Lowball (No Limit)
$1,500 buy-in

Sun, Jun 6th at 5:00pm
Event #15: Seven Card Stud High-Low Split-8 or Better Championship
$10,000 buy-in

Mon, Jun 7th at 12:00pm
Event #16: No Limit Hold’em Six-Handed
$1,500 buy-in

Tue, Jun 8th at 12:00pm
Event #17: No Limit Hold’em
$5,000 buy-in

Wed, Jun 9th at 12:00pm
Event #18: Limit Hold’em
$2,000 buy-in

Wed, Jun 9th at 5:00pm
Event #19: 2-7 Draw Lowball Championship (No Limit)
$10,000 buy-in

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Thu, Jun 10th at 12:00pm
Event #20: Pot Limit Omaha
$1,500 buy-in

Thu, Jun 10th at 5:00pm
Event #21: Seven Card Stud
$1,500 buy-in

Fri, Jun 11th at 12:00pm
Event #22: Ladies No Limit Hold’em Championship
$1,000 buy-in

Fri, Jun 11th at 5:00pm
Event #23: Limit Hold’em Six-Handed
$2,500 buy-in

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Sat, Jun 12th at 12:00pm
Event #24: No Limit Hold’em
$1,000 buy-in

Sat, Jun 12th at 5:00pm
Event #25: Omaha High-Low Split-8 or Better Championship
$10,000 buy-in

Mon, Jun 14th at 12:00pm
Event #26: No Limit Hold’em Six-Handed
$2,500 buy-in

Mon, Jun 14th at 5:00pm
Event #27: Seven Card Stud High-Low-8 or Better
$1,500 buy-in

Tue, Jun 15th at 12:00pm
Event #28: Pot Limit Omaha
$2,500 buy-in

Tue, Jun 15th at 5:00pm
Event #29: Limit Hold’em Championship
$10,000 buy-in

Wed, Jun 16th at 12:00pm
Event #30: No Limit Hold’em
$1,500 buy-in

Wed, Jun 16th at 5:00pm
Event #31: HORSE
$1,500 buy-in

Thu, Jun 17th at 12:00pm
Event #32: No Limit Hold’em Six-Handed
$5,000 buy-in

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Thu, Jun 17th at 5:00pm
Event #33: Pot Limit Hold’em/Omaha
$2,500 buy-in

Fri, Jun 18th at 12:00pm
Event #34: Seniors No Limit Hold’em Championship
$1,000 buy-in

Fri, Jun 18th at 5:00pm
Event #35: Heads-Up No Limit Hold’em Championship (256 player max)
$10,000 buy-in

Sat, Jun 19th at 12:00pm
Event #36: No Limit Hold’em
$1,000 buy-in

Sat, Jun 19th at 5:00pm
Event #37: HORSE
$3,000 buy-in

Sun, Jun 20th at 5:00pm
Event #38: Pot Limit Hold’em Championship
$10,000 buy-in

Mon, Jun 21st at 12:00pm
Event #39: No Limit Hold’em Shootout (2,000 player max)
$1,500 buy-in

Mon, Jun 21st at 5:00pm
Event #40: Seven Card Razz
$2,500 buy-in

Tue, Jun 22nd at 12:00pm
Event #41: Pot Limit Omaha High-Low Split-8 or Better
$1,500 buy-in

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Wed, Jun 23rd at 12:00pm
Event #42: No Limit Hold’em
$1,500 buy-in

Wed, Jun 23rd at 5:00pm
Event #43: HORSE Championship
$10,000 buy-in

Thu, Jun 24th at 12:00pm
Event #44: Mixed Hold’em (Limit/No Limit)
$2,500 buy-in

Fri, Jun 25th at 12:00pm
Event #45: No Limit Hold’em
$1,500 buy-in

Fri, Jun 25th at 5:00pm
Event #46: Pot Limit Omaha High-Low Split-8 or Better
$5,000 buy-in

Sat, Jun 26th at 12:00pm
Event #47: No Limit Hold’em
$1,000 buy-in

Sat, Jun 26th at 5:00pm
Event #48: Mixed Event
$2,500 buy-in

Mon, Jun 28th at 12:00pm
Event #49: No Limit Hold’em
$1,500 buy-in

Mon, Jun 28th at 5:00pm
Event #50: Pot Limit Omaha
$5,000 buy-in

Tue, Jun 29th at 12:00pm
Event #51: Triple Chance No Limit Hold’em
$3,000 buy-in

Wed, Jun 30th at 12:00pm
Event #52: No Limit Hold’em Six-Handed
$25,000 buy-in

Wed, Jun 30th at 5:00pm
Event #53: Limit Hold’em Shootout
$1,500 buy-in

Thu, Jul 1st at 12:00pm
Event #54: No Limit Hold’em
$1,000 buy-in

Thu, Jul 1st at 5:00pm
Event #55: Pot Limit Omaha Championship
$10,000 buy-in

Fri, Jul 2nd at 5:00pm
Event #56: No Limit Hold’em
$2,500 buy-in

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Sat, Jul 3rd at 2:00pm
Ante Up For Africa Poker Tournament
$5,000 buy-in

2010 WSOP Main Event:
July 5th: Day 1A
July 6th: Day 1B
July 7th: Day 1C
July 8th: Day 1D
July 9th: Day 2A
July 10th: Day 2B
July 11th: Media Event
July 12th: Day 3
July 13th: Day 4
July 14th: Day 5
July 15th: Day 6
July 16th: Day 7
July 17th: Day 8
November 6th to 9th: Final Table

The 2010 WSOP Poker Rules are divided into seven sections  – Registration and Entry, Scheduling, Prizing and Seating, Player Conduct and Tournament Integrity, Player Likeness and Image, Poker Rules, and Operations Policies and Procedures.

1. There’s Rule No. 9 spells out how players are required to obtain free Harrah’s Total Rewards cards prior to registering.
2. Rule No. 14 notes that registered players who don’t show up by the start of the third level of a tournament will be considered a “no show” and have their chips removed from play. Those players’ buy-ins will be taken out of the prize pool and can be reclaimed by the players up until July 17, 2010.
3. Additionally, the third section  -  Prizing and Seating  -  has one new rule stating how WSOP Buy-In chips won in satellites have no cash value and must be redeemed during the 2010 WSOP.
4. Rule No. 67, stating that the right to dispute a hand ends when the new hand begins, is new.
5. So is Rule No. 79 that states if a dealer accidentally deals a flop of four cards (rather than three), those four cards will be turned over, randomly scrambled, and a tourney official will come over and select one of the cards to be the next burn card, leaving the other three as the flop.
6. And finally, the new Rule No. 97 states that “repeated etiquette violations” like touching others’ cards and chips, delaying the game, or acting out of turn can earn one penalties if the tourney staff deems it appropriate.

Full list of 2010 WSOP Poker Rules available over at the WSOP website. The 2010 WSOP schedule was announced in December, keeping much the same but introducing a few new events.

The first bracelet given out will be the $50,000 buy-in Player’s Championship, which is essentially the $50K H.O.R.S.E. event that is being transitioned into an eight-game mixed event. The winner will receive the Chip Reese Trophy as did past H.O.R.S.E. winners.

With each passing year, it seems as though a younger player is winning the world series of poker tournament. Two years ago Peter Eastgate became the youngest ever winner. Last year, Eastgate’s record was broken by main event winner Joe Cada, at twenty-one years of age.

A major change is the elimination of late night sessions and playing to dawn as all tournaments are expected to end at 2.45 am.