The American firm will enter the booming Indian market through a partnership with local online poker platform Adda52.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
India.-\u00a0The World Poker Tour (WPT) has announced a partnership with India’s leading online poker platform, Adda52, to create the first edition of its tournament in the country.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
WPT Online India Powered by Adda52.com will take place from November 5 to 22.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The American firm said the edition will involve INR135 million (US$1.8 million) in guarantees and INR25 million (US$340,000) guaranteed for the WPT Online India Main Event, which will start on November 11.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Adam Pliska, CEO of the World Poker Tour, said:\u00a0\u201cthe WPT Online venture continues to grow as part of our overall online strategy which we have found effective across the global market.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Danny McDonagh, live events specialist for WPT, said: \u201cAdda52 and the growing Indian player base make for a perfect combination to bring WPT Online brand to the Asia-Pacific region.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Past editions of the WPT in Asia Pacific have included tournaments in Australia<\/a><\/em><\/strong> and Cambodia<\/a><\/em><\/strong>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The American firm will enter the booming Indian market through a partnership with local online poker platform Adda52.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10317,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"The World Poker Tour (WPT) is expanding its online presence into the Indian market through a strategic partnership with Adda52, a prominent local online poker platform. This collaboration will launch the inaugural WPT Online India tournament, featuring significant guaranteed prize pools, as part of WPT's broader global online strategy.","focusai_entities":"World Poker Tour (WPT), Adda52, Adam Pliska, Danny McDonagh","focusai_location":"India, Asia-Pacific, Australia, Cambodia","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.8), compliance_legal (0.85), operator_casino (0.9), affiliate_publisher (0.75), product_ux (0.7), tech_data (0.7), marketing_crm (0.85), payments_fraud_aml (0.8), investor_analyst (0.9), supplier_vendor (0.75), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"India Regulatory Impact","query":"What specific regulatory compliance challenges and licensing frameworks must WPT and Adda52 navigate to ensure the long-term sustainability and legality of their online poker operations in India?"},{"label":"Market Share Projections","query":"How is this partnership projected to impact Adda52's market share within the Indian online poker vertical, and what are WPT's GGR\/NGR expectations from this strategic expansion?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[161,153,16334],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-news","category-igaming-news","category-south-asia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10315"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10327,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10315\/revisions\/10327"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}