The World Poker Tour’s first foray into the world of real-money online poker has been successful thus far. The inaugural WPT Online Series on PartyPoker kicked off this month with 10 WPT-branded tournaments amidst a series of even larger proportions.
With early success and a lot of confidence, the World Poker Tour and PartyPoker announced they are teaming up again for the WPT World Online Championships from July 1 through August 9.
Big Numbers for WPT Online
This first cluster of online poker tournaments for the WPT on PartyPoker began last weekend and led to an exciting few days. Many of the tournaments only started their initial flights, but a few events ran to completion already. Those results were:
Event 1: $5,200 WPT Opener ($2M GTD)Players: 497Prize pool: $2,173,150Winner: Leo Fernandez (Argentina) for $409,638
Event 11: $10,300 WPT High Roller ($1M GTD)Players: 105Prize pool: $1,050,000Winner: Sam Greenwood (Canada) for $257,250Event 12: $530 WPT Turbo Bounty ($150K GTD)Players: 411Prize pool: $205,500Winner: Gianluca Escobar (Malta) for $15,450.44 + $22,757.85 bountiesEvent 13: $2,650 WPT 6-Max ($500K GTD)Players: 293Prize pool: $732,500Winner: Daniel Reijmer (Mexico) for $167,137.47Event 14: $25,500 WPT Super High Roller ($2M GTD)Players: 98Prize pool: $2,450,000Winner: Charles Carel (UK) for $600,250
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Actually, there are many more, but we’ll summarize the biggest events at a later date.
WPT Online Series Changes
PartyPoker and the WPT received player feedback regarding the overlap of the WPT Online Main Event and WPTDeepStacks. The Main Event was scheduled to play its Day 2 on May 18 and final day on May 19, and those are the two days set for the WPTDeepStacks.
With that in mind, the executives made some changes. The WPTDeepStacks will keep a starting flight on May 18 but then move the conclusion of the tournament to May 27.
Further, the WPTDS tournament guarantee is now $3 million, increased from $2 million.
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WPT World Online Championships Set for Summer
Last week, the World Poker Tour announced the next big series to be held online via PartyPoker. It will be the WPT World Online Championships, featuring 15 championship tournaments and an entire series set for July 1 through August 9, 2020.
The main event of the series will be the $10,300 buy-in WPT World Online Championship, which will officially close out Season XVIII of the World Poker Tour. Many players will recall that the WPT often closed out its season with a World Championship event, but that has been missing in the last several years. The last one was the closer for Season XIII at Borgata in Atlantic City.
PartyPoker LIVE President John Duthie noted, “Players have asked us to do something special, and the WPT World Online Championships is the perfect way to meet the demand of the summer poker season.”
Action will kick off on July 1, but the aforementioned highlight of the series will happen at the beginning of August. That schedule is set:
--$10,300 buy-in WPT World Championship Main Event (freezeout)-----Day 1A on Saturday, August 1-----Day 1B on Sunday, August 2-----Day 2 on Monday, August 3-----Day 3 on Tuesday, August 4 to play to a final table-----Final day on Saturday, August 8
There will also be a Mini World Championship running alongside the larger buy-in. The Mini will offer a $1,100 buy-in, though it will also be a freezeout and mimic the exact schedule of the other.
There may be guarantees placed on these events, but we must wait to see if that happens. And the full schedule is not yet available. This was the overall announcement with must more information to come in the following weeks.
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