NEW YORK: The World Poker Tour and its partner partypoker have announced the first WPT Online Series that will take place exclusively on the partypoker platform.
The series will take place from May 10-26, and the $3,200 buy-in, $5 million guaranteed WPT Online Championship will highlight the schedule. The WPT Online Championship will take place over the course of the entire festival, with Day 1 flights available starting on May 10.
The entire partypoker series includes $30 million in guarantees and $7 million for the WPT events on the schedule.
Along with the WPT Online Championship, the WPT500 and WPTDeepStacks brands will be featured in the WPT Online Series. The WPT500 Online event will take place from May 10-18 with 10 starting flights on the schedule and a $1 million guaranteed prize pool for the tournament.
WPTDeepStacks Online will close out the WPT Online Series with a $1 million guarantee event taking place from May 25-26.
“WPT and partypoker are proud to break new ground for both of our brands with the first WPT Online festival,” said Adam Pliska, CEO of the World Poker Tour. “Players from around the globe can look forward to the opportunity to play in World Poker Tour events from the comfort of their homes at all buy-in levels.”
Hermance Blum, WPT VP Europe, added, “$7 million in guarantees for WPT events alone on partypoker is an exciting breakthrough for our partnership, and we can’t wait to crown our first WPT Online Championship winner and see them in the WPT Tournament of Champions presented by Baccarat Crystal.”
Players that are eligible to play on partypoker can secure their seats to any of the WPT Online events through partypoker’s WPT Passport program.
