With its 20-year anniversary season wrapping up, the World Poker Tour (WPT) is looking forward to 2023 and introduced a brand new partnership with France’s TexaPoker “to current a powerful providing of WPT Prime festivals in Western Europe.”
The 2-year partnership with TexaPoker, a French event operator that was based in 2008, pledges three poker sequence annually in 2023 and 2024. The announcement comes on the tail finish of a profitable Twentieth anniversary for WPT that can culminate with the upcoming $15 million assured WPT World Championship on the Wynn in Las Vegas.
“Even amidst an unbelievable Twentieth-anniversary season, we’re getting ready for our development into 2023,” WPT CEO Adam Pliska mentioned in a press launch. “Partnering with TexaPoker gives us with an exquisite alternative to return the WPT model to the French market.”
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Tournaments in France and Italy
WPT Prime will kick off the Season XXI stay tour schedule on Jan. 22 with a pageant sequence at Membership Circus Paris in France, which can function the €1,100 buy-in WPT Prime Paris Predominant Occasion operating Feb. 1-5.
Later within the yr, WPT Prime Sanremo will happen at Casinò di Sanremo in Sanremo, Italy from June 5-11. The on line casino, which is positioned close to the southwestern border of France, is similar venue that hosted a 2018 WPTDeepStacks occasion.
The ultimate of the three tournaments will likely be WPT Prime Aix-en-Provence at Pasino Grand in Aix-en-Provence, France, which can happen Oct. 9-15.
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For each WPT Prime Paris and WPT Prime Aix-en-Provence, PMU.fr will run on-line satellite tv for pc tournaments to present French gamers an opportunity to win seats into the $1,100 buy-in championship occasions.
“Eleven years after my first WPT partnership, I’m more than happy and proud to work with this model and to run three stops in France and Italy,” TexaPoker Chairman and CEO Apo Chantzis mentioned within the press launch.
The WPT crew is at present in southern Florida for the 2022 WPT Rock ‘N’ Roll Poker Open (RRPO) at Seminole Arduous Rock Lodge & On line casino, the place PokerNews is on-site to report on the pageant motion.
A few of the early winners on the RRPO embrace AJ Kelsall (Occasion #5: $600 HORSE for $13,625), Salvatore Pipitone (Occasion #9: $600 Restrict Omaha 8 for $16,900) and Michael Newman (Occasion #18: $400 Deep Stack Turbo NLH for $7,136).
For extra details about upcoming WPT occasions, go to WPT.com.
WPT/TexaPoker 2023 Schedule
| Jan. 22-Feb. 5 | WPT Prime Paris | Paris, France | Membership Circus Paris | |
| June 5-11 | WPT Prime Sanremo | Sanremo, Italy | Casinò di Sanremo | |
| Oct. 9-15 | WPT Prime Aix-en-Provence | Aix-en-Provence, France | Pasino Grand |
