WSOP PA’s Ambitious Fall Online Championships Falls Almost 25% Short of Guarantees

After 17 days of action, the WSOP PA Fall Online Championships (FOC) is now complete. While there were 67 games on the schedule, in the end only 66 were completed for a total of $765,319 collected on total guarantees of $1,010,166.

From October 10 through October 26, the FOC played out on WSOP PA over the past 17 days, with more than $1 million in total guarantees.

With all the events in the books now, the results may well not have been what the operator was looking for—*but players were certainly happy.*

In the end, just a bit more than $765,000 was collected across the 66 games that ran. The 67th game, a $525 High Roller with $25,000 guaranteed, was scheduled for October 23, but it apparently didn’t run.

Everything else in the series went off without a hitch but ended up falling about 8,000 entries short of the number required to hit the guarantee.

WSOP Fall Online Championships – Summary

The Series in Detail

The FOC finished 17 days of action this week, and while the results were great for players looking for extra value, the operator was forced to cough up some cash to cover guarantees across the series. Out of 66 events that ran, just 14 of them managed to break the guarantee.

The biggest prize pool of the series was one of the games that didn’t hit guarantee. The $300 Main Event had $150,000 guaranteed, but it only managed to find 347 total entries to collect $104,100. That was more than 30% below target.

That wasn’t the worst performer from the operator’s perspective though. Sundays during the series featured rebuy/add-on Warmup games that cost just $11 to enter (with $22 add-ons) with $22,222 guaranteed.

None of those Sunday Warmup games came even close to that optimistic guarantee, ranging from about 58% to 66% below the promised amount. Over the three Sunday Warmup games, the operator was forced to pay out $41,456 in overlays, a little bit less than the total paid out to cover the Main Event guarantee.

Not every game had overlay, however. A total of 14 games went above and beyond the guarantees, and several were stellar performers. There was a 6-Max game on October 24 that more than doubled its guarantee, finding 382 entries for the $215 buy-in. That put $76,400 into the prize pool, more than twice the $35,000 guarantee on the event.

Five other games went more than 20% above their guarantees, including a cheaper 6-Max that cost $10 to enter. It guaranteed $3,000 but collected more than $4,000 on the back of 442 entries. A $40 PKO game on October 19 also broke its guarantee by more than 30% with more than $6,500 in a $5,000 guaranteed prize pool.

In the end, $765,319 was collected for $1,010,166 in guarantees over 66 total games that ran, with one game that didn’t run. While that won’t be what WSOP PA was looking for from the series, it seems clear players will be happy with all the extra money the operator gave out during the series.

WSOP Fall Online Championships – Full Results