World Poker Tour announces competitions for the next season
Seven WPT Prime and four WPT Main Tour festivals will be held from January to June 2024.
US.- The World Poker Tour (WPT) has announced events for the first half of the Season XXII schedule. There will be seven WPT Prime and four WPT Main Tour festivals from late January to early June 2024.
Kicking off Season XXII will be Main Tour stop WPT Cambodia at NagaWorld in Phnom Penh from January 17 to 30, with a Championship event January 25 to 29. Second up is the return of WPT Rolling Thunder at Thunder Valley Casino Resort in Northern California March 7 to 26, with the $3,500 Championship event starting March 23.
Two more Main Tour festivals will take place in April and May. The WPT Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown festival will run from April 3 to 23. WPT Choctaw in Oklahoma will returns for its ninth instalment featuring a $3,800 Championship event on a festival schedule that runs from April 17 to May 6.
The Prime Tour begins with WPT Prime Aix-en-Provence from January 26 to February 5, followed by the WPT Prime Amsterdam festival from March 15 to 23. The first WPT Voyage will take place in March on Virgin Voyages’ 1,400-cabin Valiant Lady. It will set sail from Miami on March 31 and will return to port on April 6. Both a Prime title and Main Tour title will be awarded at the event.
Card Casino Bratislava will host WPT Prime Slovakia for the second time from April 5 to 15, and WPT Prime Gold Coast will return to The Star Gold Coast for a third consecutive year from April 10 to 23, subject to regulator approval. Also returning for a third consecutive year is WPT Prime Vietnam. The festival at the Crown Poker Club in Hanoi is set for May 14 to 27. Finishing off the Season XXII first half schedule is the WPT Prime Sanremo from May 31 to June 10 at Casinò di Sanremo.
WPT CEO Adam Pliska said: “As we approach the end of Season XXI and the WPT World Championship, we are proud to share the schedule for the first half of Season XXII. We worked vigorously with our casino partners to solidify dates for these impressive, value-packed festivals so that players may look ahead to and plan for their 2024 schedules.”
Meanwhile, WPT World Championship at Wynn Las Vegas will run from December 12 to 21 with four starting flights and a televised final table. It will feature a $40m guaranteed prize pool. The inaugural event in 2022 drew 2,960 entrants and generated a $29m prize pool, nearly doubling the original guaranteed amount. The grand prize of $4.14m was claimed by the Canadian Eliot Hudon.
