I'll need to find the article, but the reason why it'll be so late next year is that they're locked in with conventions in that space. Harrah's wants to move the WSOP back nearer the dates it had been held in the past.
Here's the quote, from this
article:
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"Actually, we would've preferred to keep it at the date it was this year [June 2 or actually move it back somewhat,'' said Gary Thompson, Harrah's director of World Series of Poker operations. "I think ESPN also wanted to do that. But the problem was we had advanced bookings for the convention space at the Rio, as well as our other properties in Las Vegas. That is basically the only time we had available the space necessary to host that event.''
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