Online poker players can look forward to the popular World Poker Tour (WPT) World Online Championships returning for a 19th season this month and into September. The prestigious online festival is scheduled to start on Aug. 13 and play through to Sept. 15.
More than a month of online poker action will culminate in the WPT Main Event which starts on Aug. 29 and will have multiple starting flights, with the final day scheduled for Sept. 15, the last day of the festival.
The online WPT festival will be held in partnership between the WPT and partypoker, the poker room which has been hosting online WPT tournaments since the 18th season. In total, this Main Event will be the ninth WPT Main Tour event played on partypoker.
This year, the Main Event will have a $5,300 buy-in and a $5 million guaranteed prize pool, making it one of the biggest online poker events of the year.
Last year, the UK’s Phil Mighall won the Main Event, taking home more than $1.5 million in cash after beating more than 1,000 entrants in the massive $10,300 buy-in tournament.
Major Festival for Online Poker
The Main Event will be the top attraction of this year’s WPT World Online Championships, with three separate starting days scheduled for Aug. 29, Sept. 5, and Sept. 12—all Sundays. On the final day of the festival, the remaining players will reconvene for final table play, which will be live streamed. The winner will get their name engraved on the prestigious Mike Sexton WPT Champions Cup.
Apart from the Main Event, several other interesting events are on the schedule. The popular Pro Hunt tournament will take place again this year, with partypoker team members Mikita Dobyakovskiy, Patrick Leonard, Jaime Staples, Courtney Gee, Joao Simao, and other pros all playing the event and carrying extra bounties in the $33 buy-in progressive knockout tournament.
Players who are looking to get into the Main Event cheaper will have a chance to do so by defeating one of the pros in the Pro Hunt tournament or by winning their seat in one of the many satellites that will be held throughout the month.
Satellite tournaments start as low as one cent, with Phase satellites starting on Stage 1 with a $4.40 buy-in and going up to Phase 3 with a $109 buy-in. Final Phase tournaments will take place on Sundays and no direct buy-ins will be available, with each Phase 3 satellite guaranteeing 20 spots in the $5,300 Main Event.
WTP Live Returning to Maryland
Following a long break in live poker that was forced upon players due to the COVID-19 pandemic, WPT live tournaments are also returning.
This September, players in Maryland and neighboring states will get a chance to enter a WPT Main Event at the Live! Casino & Hotel, with Day 1A starting on September 24 and the final day scheduled for Sept. 28.
Another WPT event that was on the books for late August in Jacksonville, FL, the WPT bestbet Scramble, was unfortunately taken off the schedule due to the impact of the pandemic in the state.
