Image source: Flickr/World Poker Tour How to Watch the World Poker Tour WPT Season XX started at the beginning of 2022 and will encompass the full year, as will each season/year going forward. The 2019-2020 season was expanded into a 2019-2021 season due to COVID-19, with a smaller 2021 portion added to the rest. The Player of the Year award is earned through a points-based system, rewarding consistent excellence across a season.

The list of WPT Players of the Year includes some of poker’s most recognizable names. Past World Poker Tour Players of the Year Season More events are scheduled for 2022, including Main Tour stops in Australia and Florida, WPT Prime stops in Australia and Spain, and a special year-end historic Main Tour season finale at the Wynn Las Vegas, a new casino partner. In celebration of Season XX - the tour’s 20th anniversary - the WPT Main Tour traveled to Florida, Nevada, and Oklahoma at the beginning of the year. The World Poker Tour returned to a mostly normal schedule in 2022. There were online poker events on partypoker in 2021 as well, both in New Jersey for U.S. The rest of the year saw the WPT return to Seminole Hard Rock Tampa and Hollywood (Florida), Choctaw (Oklahoma), and Bellagio (Las Vegas). The tour followed up with live events that included the WPT Russia in February and WPT at Venetian (Las Vegas) in March. The first WPT Main Tour live event in almost a year ran at the Seminole Hard Rock Hollywood in January 2021.

The organizers moved a couple of Main Tour events online in late 2020 and early 2021. Image source: Flickr/World Poker Tour When are WPT Events Being Held This Year?Īlong with virtually every other poker tour around the globe, the WPT shut down most of its scheduled events in 2020 due to COVID-19 considerations. Some of the most significant WPT Main Tour events are broadcast on Bally’s Sports Network in the U.S., making the WPT one of the most prominent mainstream poker brands in the nation. Other WPT-branded events include the WPTDeepStacks (recently rebranded to WPT Prime), WPT500, and WPT National tours. The WPT Main Tour runs as the most prestigious tour under the WPT banner. The WPT began running events in 2002, and the tour has persisted for two decades as one of poker’s most recognizable brands. The World Poker Tour operates as one of the world’s longest-running international poker tours. Last updated: J3:41 pm EDT What is the World Poker Tour?

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