The world’s largest assured prize pool in historical past — $15 million WPT World Championship at Wynn Las Vegas– will happen Dec. 12-20, and a lot of the entrants within the discipline may have earned their approach on ClubWPT.
Subsequent month, the World Poker Tour is about to host one of the epic poker festivals ever, and 56 ClubWPT members have already received particular packages that would probably translate into lots of of 1000’s, or possibly even tens of millions, of {dollars}. They’re going to get to hitch PokerNews reside reporter Liam Gannon, who received a Twitter contest for a event buy-in.
Huge Occasions at Wynn in December
The $10,400 buy-in WPT World Championship at Wynn is not the one main occasion through the sequence in December, though it is actually the most important and one of the anticipated reside poker tournaments ever. There are 23 whole tournaments at Wynn from Dec. 1-20, the three greatest being promoted by the WPT model.
On Dec. 8, and concluding 4 days later, the $1,100 WPT Prime Championship No-Restrict Maintain’em occasion has a $2 million assured prize pool. From Dec. 16-18, the $1,100 WPT Girls Championship No-Restrict Maintain’em has a $200,000 assured pot, after which in fact the historic WPT World Championship Dec. 12-20 may have — at a minimal — $15 million within the prize pool, and sure fairly a bit extra.
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From ClubWPT to Riches?
When the sequence begins, 27 ClubWPT qualifiers will happen within the WPT World Championship, 22 extra will play for riches within the WPT Prime Championship, and 7 different members acquired particular occasions packages for the Wynn sequence.
“Since launching in 2008, ClubWPT has been an incredible solution to get gamers from all walks of life extra concerned in poker,” mentioned WPT CEO Adam Pliska. “WPT World Championship packages are essentially the most prestigious prizes we have now ever awarded on ClubWPT, and we’re proud to host qualifying gamers at our Twentieth-anniversary celebration.”
ClubWPT was the one on-line place the place US gamers may qualify for the Championship occasions, and did so throughout qualifying tournaments on the subscription-based platform Nov. 13.
The seven particular occasions winners have some thrilling occasions up forward. 5 of these people will compete for a seat within the Tony Dunst WPT Battleship Bounty on Dec. 9, with the winner taking residence a WPT World Championship seat. The opposite two winners will compete to see who will last more once they sit down with WPT Ambassadors Phil Ivey, Andrew Neeme, Brad Owen, and WPT Anchor Lynn Gilmartin for the six-handed WPT Phil Ivey Residence Sport on Dec. 6.
Did You Know the World Poker Tour is On-line?
The launch of WPT World implies that poker gamers all over the world now have the possibility to win their solution to WPT occasions, win prizes and revel in thrilling video games comparable to Poker Flips. As one of many world’s largest money sport poker networks, WPT World is on the market in over 50 international locations and territories all over the world.
WPT World gives a big deposit match bonus: 100% on deposits as much as $1,200 (utilizing any fee methodology). New gamers depositing a minimal of $20 robotically obtain this match bonus which is unlocked in $5 increments (credited straight to the cashier) for each $20 of rake contribution.
Each tournaments and money video games depend in the direction of bonus unlocking; new gamers have 90 days from the date of first deposit to unlock and declare their full bonus quantity.
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