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The World Poker Tour lately wrapped up its twenty second season with the conclusion of the WPT World Championship. The tour made stops in 14 international locations final yr, with greater than $80 million in prize cash paid out alongside the way in which.
Since that competition wrapped up at Wynn Las Vegas in late December, the WPT has made a number of massive bulletins. The tour first topped Yunkyu Song because the Season 22 Player of the Year award winner, then revealed the schedule for the primary half of Season 23.
The upcoming WPT stops span 4 continents: Asia, Australia, Europe, and North America. This first launch included 4 WPT primary tour stops and three WPT Prime occasions.
“With the arrival of the new year, we look ahead to the 23rd season of the World Poker Tour,” mentioned WPT CEO Adam Pliska. “Poker players, globally, can mark their calendars for some amazing WPT festivals to come in the first half of 2025.”
Season 23 kicks off on the NagaWorld Integrated Resort in Phnom Penh, Cambodia with each the $3,500 buy-in WPT Cambodia Championship primary occasion (Feb. 19-24) and the $1,100 WPT Prime Cambodia Championship (Feb. 14-18).
Up subsequent are a trio of returning primary tour stops, together with the WPT Rolling Thunder Championship $3,500 buy-in primary occasion (Mar. 16-19), the WPT Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown $3,500 primary occasion (Apr. 4-8), and the WPT Choctaw $3,800 buy-in primary occasion (May 2-5).
WPT Prime Cyprus is slated to run Mar. 6-17 at Chamada Prestige Hotel & Casino, with the identical venue anticipated to host a primary tour occasion within the again half of the yr. Rounding out this preliminary schedule launch is the WPT Prime Gold Coast $2,000 AUD primary occasion at The Star Gold Coast from Mar. 21-26.
Photo credit score: WPT.