Hot on the heels of its end-of-the-year World Championship festival, the World Poker Tour has an eye towards the future, having announced seven scheduled events – across its Main Tour and Prime Tour – for the first half of 2025. Spanning four continents, the WPT will be returning to a number of destinations it has previously visited, with the goal of doing things even bigger and better than in the past.
Specifically, players can look forward to four WPT Main Tour festivals (in Cambodia, California, Florida and Oklahoma) and three WPT Prime stops (in Cambodia, Cyprus, and Australia). “With the arrival of the new year, we look ahead to the 23rd season of the World Poker Tour,” said WPT CEO Adam Pliska. “Poker players, globally, can mark their calendars for some amazing WPT festivals to come in the first half of 2025.”
WPT Main Tour and WPT Prime Festival Dates
Season 23 will kick off in Phnom Penh at NagaWorld Resort, where the $1,100 WPT Prime Cambodia Championship will run from February 14–18 to immediately be followed by the $3,500 WPT Cambodia Championship from February 19–24.
The following month, the WPT truly spreads its wings, staging the following events:
- WPT Prime Cyprus (March 13-17): The $1,100 Prime Championship event will once again be held at the Chamada Prestige Hotel and Casino. This marks a calendar shift for this particular tour stop, as it was last held in August 2024. You can check out Cardplayer Lifestyle’s coverage of that series here.
- WPT Rolling Thunder (March 16–19): Northern California’s Thunder Valley Casino Resort plays host once again to the $3,500 Championship event as part of the larger series of tournaments. You can expect Ben Erwin and his crew to roll out the red carpet for what promises to be another highlight-filled occasion.
- WPT Prime Gold Coast (March 21-26): Poker players Down Under as well as those looking to make the journey over to Australia have a AUD$2,000 Prime Championship to look forward to at the Star Gold Coast.
April and May will be busy months for the World Poker Tour as well, with two Main Tour events hitting Florida and Oklahoma, respectively, as follows.
- WPT Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown (March 19–April 8): Head over to Hollywood, Florida for the $3,500 Championship that will be held from April 4–8.
- WPT Choctaw (April 16–May 5): Representing the 10th anniversary of World Poker Tour events being held at Choctaw Casino & Resort in Durant, Oklahoma, players will compete in a $3,800 Championship event from May 2–5. The last time Cardplayer Lifestyle covered this series was in 2022, and it has only grown in popularity since then.
Those players unable to partake in the action in person, along with WPT fans around the globe, will be able to watch live streams and edited broadcasts of all the aforementioned events, with details of filmings to be released at a later date.
Call it a hunch, but the WPT always seems to have “a little something extra” up its sleeve. While the aforementioned schedule has been announced, there might be more to come in the first half of this year. We’ll keep our eyes peeled.
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— World Poker Tour (@WPT) January 9, 2025
Qualify for WPT Main Tour and WPT Prime Tour Events Online
If you’ve always dreamed of playing in a World Poker Tour Championship event or WPT Prime Championship event but the price tag is just a bit out of reach – or you just want to try and grab yourself a seat on the cheap – you’ll have the opportunity to win your way there by playing online.
Depending on your jurisdiction, you can utilize either WPT Global, ClubWPT, or the all-new ClubWPT Gold as a means of playing satellites and qualifiers for live WPT events throughout the first half of Season 23.
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