WPT Global Set To Sponsor International Poker Open for Three Years

The Worldwide Poker Open (IPO) takes place this October on the Bonnington Lodge Dublin, with WPT World as the brand new headline sponsor. The partnership deal will probably be in place for 3 years and can see WPT World run satellites and qualifiers across the clock to the dwell occasion.

The IPO is one in every of Europe’s longest-running poker excursions, which is famend as an occasion that draws large fields because of its unfold of low stakes occasions. The much-loved dwell collection returns to the Bonnington Lodge, Dublin October 21 to 27, 2025.

It encompasses a full schedule together with three new tournaments: a two-day Seniors Occasion, a 8-Recreation event, and an Omaha event. The Important Occasion returns the place it’s anticipated to attract over a thousand entrants. There will probably be six Day 1 flights performed out dwell, plus a web-based Day 1 that’s hosted on WPT World on August 31. Excessive Curler and Tremendous Excessive Curler tournaments are additionally scheduled together with Mini Important and Deep stacks occasions.

Purchase-ins begin at €10 and go as much as €1,100 on the high finish.

“The idea has all the time been to offer the Irish poker group with a small buy-in, large area, well-structured occasion, bridging the hole between pub poker/on line casino nightly video games and the mid-stakes poker circuit,” WPT World Ambassador David Lappin mentioned through his article on the subject.

In addition to sponsoring the occasion, 20 promotional Golden Passes will probably be given away within the run up the dwell occasion through WPT World satellites to fortunate gamers. The go not solely covers the IPO Important Occasion buy-in, it awards the participant a further €100,000 in the event that they go on to win the occasion. This profitable €100,000 carrot-dangling made headlines this yr throughout the WSOP because the poker group criticized the motivation, that was supplied by ClubWPT Gold, the sweepstakes poker arm of WPT World.

To briefly recap, ClubWPT Gold ran a promotion the place if a Gold Go winner went on to win the Millionaire Maker WSOP occasion, that participant would get a further $1 million in prize cash from the sweepstakes website. And that’s precisely that occurred. Jesse Yaginuma acquired his seat within the WSOP event through the ClubWPT Gold “Gold Go” promotion. What made headlines was the truth that Yaginuma and his opponent had been accused of collusion and chip dumping of their heads-up match to ensure that Yaginuma to win.

However ClubWPT Gold honored their promotion and paid out the million {dollars} regardless of the WSOP opting to not award Yaginuma a WSOP bracelet after investigating the allegations. However like water off a geese again, WPT World is operating the identical promotion for the IPO, albeit for much less.

Sponsorship Shakeup

The IPO which has been operating since 2007 and was sponsored by Unibet between 2017 to 2023 and by PokerStars and Paddy Energy for the 2024 outing. Notably PokerStars and Paddy Energy (each Flutter manufacturers) have cosponsored the Irish Poker Open for the previous two years, however weren’t fortunate sufficient to safe the Worldwide Poker Open sponsorship for one more yr.

Earlier sponsors of the IPO additionally embrace Boyle Poker, Full Tilt, Grosvenor Poker, GGPoker. Now WPT World will take centre stage.

Just lately, WPT World signed Jose Ignacio “Nacho” Barbero up as an Ambassador to the positioning, together with sponsoring the Chip Race Podcast and its co-hosts Dara O’Kearney and David Lappin. It additionally secured the headline sponsorship rights to The Battle of Malta, one other a lot beloved dwell poker competition that draws large crowds.

WPT World will probably be freely giving $1,280 Battle of Malta packages by weekly step satellites every week from now till the beginning of the collection, which takes place October 28 to November 5. The outing for the Battle of Malta additionally marks its ten-year anniversary on the dwell poker sene.

$2 Million up for Grabs within the WPT World Loopy Freeroll Collection

Not solely is WPT World busy sponsoring gamers and dwell occasions, the rising on-line poker model can be in the midst of an enormous giveaway, the place $2 million is up for grabs through quite a lot of freerollls. Operating August 18 by to October 5, the Loopy Freeroll Collection, actually is simply that.

There are every day tournaments with $10,000 up for grabs and particular Sunday occasions the place gamers can hope for a share of the $100,000 in money prizes.

Every day Loopy Freerolls supply $10,000 in prizes and $2,000 further for the winner.
Tremendous Loopy Freerolls occur every Sunday: there’s a $100,000 prize pool and a further $20,000 for the winner.
All WPT World gamers get 4 tickets to Every day Loopy Freerolls each week that get dropped routinely into participant accounts.

The Worldwide Poker Open runs October 21 to 27, 2025.