WPT Partnering With TexaPoker for Prime Festivals in France & Italy
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With its 20-year anniversary season wrapping up, the World Poker Tour (WPT) is looking ahead to 2023 and announced a new partnership with France's TexaPoker "to present a strong offering of WPT Prime festivals in Western Europe."
The two-year partnership with TexaPoker, a French tournament operator that was founded in 2008, pledges three poker series each year in 2023 and 2024. The announcement comes on the tail end of a successful 20th anniversary for WPT that will culminate with the upcoming $15 million guaranteed WPT World Championship at the Wynn in Las Vegas.
��Even amidst an incredible 20th-anniversary season, we are preparing for our progression into 2023,�� WPT CEO Adam Pliska said in a press release. ��Partnering with TexaPoker provides us with a wonderful opportunity to return the WPT brand to the French market.��
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Tournaments in France and Italy
WPT Prime will kick off the Season XXI live tour schedule on Jan. 22 with a festival series at Club Circus Paris in France, which will feature the �1,100 buy-in WPT Prime Paris Main Event running Feb. 1-5.
Later in the year, WPT Prime Sanremo will take place at Casin�� di Sanremo in Sanremo, Italy from June 5-11. The casino, which is located near the southwestern border of France, is the same venue that hosted a 2018 WPTDeepStacks event.
The final of the three tournaments will be WPT Prime Aix-en-Provence at Pasino Grand in Aix-en-Provence, France, which will take place Oct. 9-15.
For both WPT Prime Paris and WPT Prime Aix-en-Provence, PMU.fr will run online satellite tournaments to give French players a chance to win seats into the $1,100 buy-in championship events.
��Eleven years after my first WPT partnership, I am very pleased and proud to work with this brand and to run three stops in France and Italy,�� TexaPoker Chairman and CEO Apo Chantzis said in the press release.
The WPT team is currently in southern Florida for the 2022 WPT Rock ��N�� Roll Poker Open (RRPO) at Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino, where PokerNews is on-site to report on the festival action.
Some of the early winners at the RRPO include AJ Kelsall (Event #5: $600 HORSE for $13,625), Salvatore Pipitone (Event #9: $600 Limit Omaha 8 for $16,900) and Michael Newman (Event #18: $400 Deep Stack Turbo NLH for $7,136).
For more information about upcoming WPT events, visit WPT.com.
WPT/TexaPoker 2023 Schedule
| DATE | FESTIVAL | CITY | VENUE | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan. 22-Feb. 5 | WPT Prime Paris | Paris, France | Club Circus Paris | |
| June 5-11 | WPT Prime Sanremo | Sanremo, Italy | Casin�� di Sanremo | |
| Oct. 9-15 | WPT Prime Aix-en-Provence | Aix-en-Provence, France | Pasino Grand |
