By Lisa Yiasemides
Featuring combined guarantees of $100 million, the WPT World Online Championships is going to be HUGE! A full series of summer tournaments have been meticulously planned and there will certainly be something for everyone when it all kicks off on July 17, as WPT and partypoker partner up once more.
If two weeks feels like a long time to wait, don’t worry, there are plenty of ways to start playing today. The WPT team has been working tirelessly behind the scenes, cooking up some fantastic opportunities for players to get ahead of the game and bag themselves Championship tickets to what promises to be a world-class series of events.
Designed with online and live players in mind, the festival will replicate the experience and quality of a WPT live tournament and hand-deliver it straight to the comfort of your home. Key features include:
Massive guarantees
Real names
Only two Day 1s for Championship events
Only one re-entry to Championship events
Entry into the WPT Champions Club for winners
Satellites
Each week of the eight-week festival, a new set of satellites will take place and they feed directly into the respective Championship event the following weekend.
All Championship events will be accompanied by a ‘Mini’ and a ‘Micro’ offering and they will take place on the same day, with one exception.
The one exception is the crown jewel of the entire series: The WPT World Online Championship Main Event. In order to allow players to fully focus on the flagship tournament, it will be the only one to take place on the weekend of August 29-30, with the Mini and Micro editions running the previous weekend (August 22-23).
| Week | Tournament | Satellite Dates | Seats GTD |
| 1 | WPT World Championship Pot Limit Omaha Hi-Lo [PLO Hi-Lo] | Day 1a = Sunday, July 12-Saturday July 18
Day 1b = Saturday, July 18-Sunday July 19 |
52 X Main ($3,200)
52 X Mini ($320) 52 X Micro ($33) |
| 2 | WPT World Championship Pot Limit Omaha [PLO] | Day 1a = Sunday, July 19-Saturday July 25
Day 1b = Saturday, July 25-Sunday July 26 |
82 X Main ($3,200)
82 X Mini ($320) 82 X Micro ($33) |
| 3 | WPT World Championship 8-Max [8-Max] | Day 1a = Sunday, July 26-Saturday August 1
Day 1b = Saturday, August 1-Sunday August 2 |
280 X Main ($3,200)
280 X Mini ($320) 280 X Micro ($33) |
| 4 | WPT World Championship Knockout [PKO] | Day 1a = Sunday, August 2-Saturday August 8
Day 1b = Saturday, August 8-Sunday August 9 |
280 X Main ($3,200)
280 X Mini ($320) 280 X Micro ($33) |
| 5 | WPT World Championship 6-Max [6-Max] | Day 1a = Sunday, August 9-Saturday August 15
Day 1b = Saturday, August 15-Sunday August 16 |
280 X Main ($3,200)
280 X Mini ($320) 280 X Micro ($33) |
| 6 | $1K WPT Mini World Championship Main Event + $109 WPT Micro World | Day 1a = Sunday, August 16-Saturday August 22
Day 1b = Saturday, August 22-Sunday August 23 |
570 X Mini ($1,050)
570 X Micro ($109) |
| 7 | $10K WPT World Championship Main Event [NLH] | Day 1a = Sunday August 23-Saturday August 29
Day 1b = Saturday August 29-Sunday August 30 |
280 X Main $10,300 |
| 8 | WPT World Championship Mix-Max [Mix-Max] | Day 1a = Sunday, August 30-Saturday September 5
Day 1b = Saturday September 5-Sunday September 6 |
280 X Main ($3,200)
280 X Mini ($320) 280 X Micro ($33) |
Qualify for the $5 million GTD Mini Main Event Today
Satellites to the $5 million GTD Mini Main Event are already underway and the $1,050 event offers an incredible opportunity to win some serious life-changing money as well as entry into the exclusive WPT Hall of Fame for the winner. There is no better time to login to your partypoker account and play, than today.
Feeder Tree:
Feeder: $2.20 running one hour before each Phase 1
Phase 1: $22 running every 2 hours from 2pm-12am BST
Final: Monday 9pm BST no direct buy-in
Direct satellite:
$109 buy-in – runs at 8pm every day
Ticket Drops
Adding even more value for you, partypoker and WPT are throwing a ton of Ticket Drops into the prize pool on selected tournaments in the partypoker lobby! All you have to do is look out for comps that state “WPT Seat Added” and play. The winner of those tournaments will bag themselves a seat into one of the WPT World Online Championship events.
Ticket Drops have been given away since June 16, but there is plenty of the $500,000 dollar give-away still to be won as the promotion continues until July 16.
The featured tournaments will vary to maximize player choice, so don’t forget to check back each day to find out which comps could net you a share of the $100 million series prize pool.