Irvine, CA (Jan. 9, 2024) – The first half schedule for World Poker Tour® Season 23 is set to traverse the globe with four WPT® Main Tour festivals and three stops for the award-winning WPT Prime Tour. The combination of seven events will cover locations in Asia, Australia, Europe, and North America.
“With the arrival of the new year, we look ahead to the 23rd season of the World Poker Tour,” said WPT CEO Adam Pliska. “Poker players, globally, can mark their calendars for some amazing WPT festivals to come in the first half of 2025.”
The first WPT Main Tour event of the season will occur in Phnom Penh, Cambodia from Feb. 19-24 with a buy-in of $3,500. The WPT Cambodia Championship is the marquee tournament of the overall festival at NagaWorld Integrated Resort that also includes the $1,100 WPT Prime Cambodia Championship running Feb. 14-18.
Three staple Main Tour stops span the months of February, March, April, and May, starting with the WPT Rolling Thunder festival from Feb. 27-March 19. The $3,500 buy-in WPT Rolling Thunder Championship is set for March 16-19. Next is the WPT Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown festival from March 19-April 8, also with a $3,500 championship event (April 4-8). Rounding out the Main Tour schedule is the WPT Choctaw festival from April 16-May 5. The $3,800 WPT Choctaw Championship from May 2-5 will mark the event’s tenth occurrence.
Both the WPT Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown Championship and WPT Choctaw Championship will be filmed for television. Final table dates for the two prominent events will be released at a later date.
Following the Cambodia kickstart, the WPT Prime schedule returns with the second annual WPT Prime Cyprus at Chamada Prestige Hotel & Casino from March 6-17. Chamada Prestige will also host a Main Tour event in the second half of the year.
The World Poker Tour will make its way to Australia for the WPT Prime Gold Coast festival at The Star Gold Coast from March 13-26.
*WPT Global, **ClubWPT™ and ***ClubWPT Gold will offer satellites and qualifiers for various live WPT events throughout the first half of Season 23.
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***There is no purchase necessary to play on ClubWPT Gold. For more information regarding these events, including how to qualify and location eligibility, visit ClubWPTGold.com.
For more information regarding this and all World Poker Tour events, visit WPT.com.
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