{"id":3895,"date":"2020-02-26T11:35:54","date_gmt":"2020-02-26T11:35:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=3895"},"modified":"2026-04-24T07:31:36","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T10:31:36","slug":"world-poker-tour-cambodia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/world-poker-tour-cambodia","title":{"rendered":"World Poker Tour returns to Cambodia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The event will be held at the NagaWorld Integrated Resort in Phnom Penh  from J21-25 July.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Cambodia.- The World Poker Tour has announced that an open WPT Main Tour event will be held at the <strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/cambodia-naga-casino\">NagaWorld Integrated Resort<\/a><\/em><\/strong> in Phnom Penh from 21-25 July 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe WPT continues to expand globally and we are delighted to break new ground in the Asia-Pacific region to open our 19th season this July with WPT Cambodia. The breakthroughs made <strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/nagacorp-enjoys-strong-end-to-2019\">last November<\/a><\/em><\/strong> showed the poker world the magnificent NagaWorld and the passion of the network of players who flew from all corners of the globe to attend the record-breaking event.\u201d, Adam Pliska, CEO of the World Poker Tour, said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It will be the second WPT event to be held in Cambodia. The first WPT event was held in November last year and had record participation and the largest prize pool in Cambodian poker history, according to Asia Gaming Brief.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Danny McDonagh, Live Events Specialist for the World Poker Tour, added: \u201cWe look forward to welcoming even more players to this sparkling facility across three dates next season and growing the Asia-Pacific poker ecosystem to new heights.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The event will be held at the NagaWorld Integrated Resort in Phnom Penh from J21-25 July.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"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) has announced its second Main Tour event at the NagaWorld Integrated Resort in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, scheduled for July 21-25, 2020. This expansion signifies WPT's continued global reach into the Asia-Pacific region, following a record-breaking inaugural event in November.","focusai_entities":"World Poker Tour, NagaWorld Integrated Resort, Adam Pliska, Danny McDonagh, Asia Gaming Brief","focusai_location":"Cambodia, Phnom Penh","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), operator_casino (0.8), marketing_crm (0.85), investor_analyst (0.8), gambler_consumer (0.95), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.85)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"NagaWorld GGR Impact","query":"What is the projected gross gaming revenue (GGR) uplift for NagaWorld Integrated Resort attributable to hosting the WPT Main Tour event, considering historical participation and prize pool data?"},{"label":"WPT Asia-Pacific Strategy","query":"How does the World Poker Tour's continued expansion into the Asia-Pacific region, particularly with a second event in Cambodia, align with its broader B2C market penetration and brand equity objectives?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[160,161,158,16333],"tags":[30,59],"class_list":["post-3895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-daily-news","category-slider-home","category-south-east-asia-news","tag-cambodia","tag-poker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3895","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=3895"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3903,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3895\/revisions\/3903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}