Gamers can begin making journey plans to Las Vegas in December for the return of the town’s largest winter poker competition, and the primary attraction of the World Poker Tour (WPT).
The fourth-annual WPT World Championship Pageant at Wynn Las Vegas kicks off Dec. 2, and the sequence wraps Dec. 22, simply in time for Christmas.
All of the motion will once more happen on the Encore aspect of Wynn Resorts. A full schedule is not but out there, however the WPT has launched dates for the 2 largest occasions.
Scott Stewart to Repeat as WPT World Champion?
The Season 23-ending WPT World Championship, a $10,400 buy-in no-limit maintain’em match, is at all times the star of the present. This 12 months’s major occasion begins Dec. 13 and can play right down to a remaining desk of six on Dec. 19. These nonetheless standing will come again Dec. 21 for the ultimate desk livestream to play for thousands and thousands of {dollars} and to hitch the WPT Champions Membership.
Scott Stewart is the defending champion. The Budweiser-loving, colourful character from California outlasted a area of two,392 entrants to win a career-best $2,563,900. Chris Moorman completed in fourth place for the second straight 12 months.
The most important occasion of the sequence, for the second 12 months within the row, is not going to have a assured prize pool. In 2023, the World Poker Tour set a report on the time with the biggest assured prize pool in poker historical past at $40 million.
Regardless of no assure in 2024, the prize pool cracked $23 million, making it one of many largest reside tournaments in poker historical past exterior of the World Sequence of Poker (WSOP).
Talking of the WSOP, the WPT will as soon as once more go up in opposition to the World Sequence of Poker Paradise (WSOPP) bracelet sequence within the Bahamas, which runs Dec. 14-18.
The WPT World Championship revealed the dates for one different main occasion throughout its Wynn sequence, and that’s the $1,100 WPT Prime Championship beginning Dec. 7. Play can be halted on Dec. 12 when the ultimate desk has been reached, and the six remaining gamers will return to the felt for the livestreamed finale on Dec. 20. Zak VanKeuren, who received it for $1,162,350 in 2024, is the defending champion.
Details about extra tournaments, together with the WPT Women Championship, aren’t but out there.
Scott Stewart Wins WPT World Championship for $2.5M; Moorman Fourth Once more
