Schedule Released for Season XV of World Poker Tour
This was published 20-05-2016The World Poker Tour has released a schedule for Season XV that will feature 20 Main Tour events as well as a reprisal of the Tournament of Champions to end the season. The prestigious tour will also be introducing a new way of qualifying for its renowned events, the World Poker Tour Passport.
The WPT featured 21 main festivals and awarded prizes of over $50 million last season. Although the WPT Emperors Palace Poker Classic and the WPT Vienna have been removed from the schedule, it has added a new stop with the WPT Caribbean scheduled to take place at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino Punta Cana in the Dominican Republic in November 2016.
According to Angelica Hael, Vice President of Global Tour Management for WPT, Hard Rock is one of the most globally recognizable brands and is tantamount with delivering a first-class experience. Hael went on to say that they are extremely proud to partner with Hard Rock and partypoker to host partypoker WPT Caribbean and to add this tropical destination to the Season XV WPT Main Tour schedule.
WPT and partypoker have also partnered to launch the WPT Passport which provide players endeavoring to qualify into WPT Main Tour events via online qualifiers with more flexibility. The online poker room will host WPT Passport super satellites every day, feeding into a $530 WPT Passport satellite with at least package worth $5,000 guaranteed. Winners will be given up to 12 months to decide which WPT Main Tour they would like to use the package for.
Adam Pliska, President and Chief Executive Officer of the WPT revealed that in Season XIV, its casino partners and 12,000 entrants generated over $50 million in combined prize pools. Pliska added that following the tremendous response from members of the WPT Champions Club, they are thrilled to announce the return of the WPT Tournament of Champions in Season XV, and launch new initiatives such as the partypoker WPT Passport as they continue to enhance the WPT experience for professionals as well as casual players around the world.
