The World Poker Tour returns to The Gardens Casino in Hawaii Gardens, California for the WPT Gardens Poker Championship. Starting on May 21, it will be the fourth WPT main tour stop on the Season 21 schedule. This event marks the fifth time that WPT has stopped at The Gardens Casino. This season's WPT Gardens Poker Championship has a buy-in of $5,250 and will feature two starting flights, with Day 1A on Sunday, May 21 and Day 1B on Monday, May 22. The field will play down over the course of the next few days, reaching a final table on Day 4, Thursday, May 25. After a day off for travel, the final six players will play for the championship in Las Vegas, Nevada for the recording of the televised final table on Saturday, May 26.

WPT visited The Gardens Casino for the first time in 2018. The venue hosted a full slate of poker tournaments with the main draw being the $5,000 WPT Gardens Main Event. This event drew a large field of nearly 600 entrants and garnered a prizepool just shy of $3 million dollars. Simon Lam earned the title of WPT Champion by outlasting the field and took home the first place prize of $565,055.

The list of WPT Champions crowned at The Gardens Casino includes Lam, Frank Stepuchin, Roger Teska, and Markus Gonsalves. California is a hotspot for poker talent as several of poker's greatest players call California home, including former WPT DeepStacks Champion and Season 8 WPT Player of the Year award winner Faraz Jaka.