The 44th Annual World Series of Poker will kick off on Wednesday, May 29, 2013, at the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, according to WSOP.com. WSOP officials have not released the schedule of events, but they have confirmed that the 2013 WSOP will run for 49 days and end on Tuesday, July 16, 2013 when the final table of the Main Event is reached.

Speaking of the Main Event, it will be held over 10 consecutive days from July 7 through July 16, 2013, and feature three starting flights on July 7, 8 and 9.

Last year, 74,766 participants turned out for the 61 bracelet events and competed for more than $222 million in prize pool money – the largest in the WSOP’s 43-year history. Nearly 500 tables will be used for the 2013 WSOP as organizers look to host an even larger crowd. Furthermore, cash games will begin on May 29 and run 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

Even though the schedule of events has not been finalized, the WSOP says players can expect “around 60 gold bracelet events and a similar schedule as years past.” The staple events – seniors, ladies, casino employees, and a charity tournament – as well as the no-limit hold’em weekend events will all be part of the schedule.

PokerNews will bring you the schedule of events in its entirety when it becomes available.

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It’s been over a year-and-a half since Two Plus Two has published a new book, but that will soon change. Our next book, Further Limit Hold ‘em; Exploring the Model Poker Game by Philip Newall should be available by the middle of December. For those of you who read Philip’s previous book, The Intelligent Poker Player, this one picks up where that one left off with more advanced information for limit hold ‘em players. Current status is that the manuscript is finished and type-set and will soon be heading to our index builder, so we’re right on schedule for the December publication.

I’m also going to announce what will probably be our next book. It’s tentatively titled Applications of No Limit Hold ‘em; A Guide to Understanding Theoretically Sound Poker, and the author is Mathew Janda. We don’t have a projected publication date but initial editing work has begun on the first part of the manuscript while Matt is finishing up the final sections. As the title says, this is an all encompassing work on no-limit hold ‘em and we at 2+2 believe it will become absolutely must reading for all serious players.

Also, I’ve been informed that work is continuing on the next Harrington book which is being targeted towards tournaments. Dan and Bill tell me they are working away, and I’ll keep everyone informed as to when this text might become available.

Speaking of our books, we ran a cover contest for Further Limit Hold ‘em in our Books and Publications Forum which is located here.

Many of the covers submitted are simply fantastic, and our current plan is to pick up a number of these covers for use on some of our future books as well as the one for which the contest was intended for. Also, at the time of this writing, the contest is still on-going, but we expect to announce the winners in early November.

At the time of this writing, Hurricane Sandy is just beginning to hit the East Coast of the United States. I know that many of the readers and participants of our forums are located in this area, so we at 2+2 wish everyone affected by Sandy the best in not only making it through the storm, but in the cleanup and other problems that should follow.

By the way, I have first hand experience in dealing with Hurricanes. When I was a kid, Hurricane Cleo was a direct hit where I lived in South Florida. In fact, the Miami Herald, described by home town of Coral Gables as looking “more like a war zone,” so to this day my memories are very vivid. So again, if you live in the area where this storm hit, be careful for many days since the aftermath of a storm like this can also be severe.