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Los Angeles, CA (April 18, 2019) – WPTDeepStacks™ today announced a partnership with King’s Resort to host WPTDeepStacks Germany from July 11-22, 2019. The full festival includes more than €1,000,000 in guarantees and is another venture in the World Poker Tour’s® partnership with partypoker LIVE.
The WPTDeepStacks Main Event features a €1,500 buy-in along with a €500,000 guarantee, and takes place from July 19-22. The festival marks WPTDeepStacks’ first trip to the globally renowned King’s Resort in Rozvadov, Czech Republic.
“King’s Resort welcomes the World Poker Tour and WPTDeepStacks for what will be a powerful festival,” said Leon Tsoukernik, CEO of King’s Resort. “Players from across Europe can expect another top-notch series headlined by the WPTDeepStacks Main Event.”
“The World Poker Tour and partypoker LIVE look forward to opening Season XVIII at an exciting venue,” Hermance Blum, WPT® VP Europe, said. “This festival marks another ground-breaking moment in our partnership and King’s Resort will be a strong foothold on the schedule for seasons to come.”
“WPT and partypoker LIVE expect our players to have another incredible experience when WPTDeepStacks arrives at King’s Resort”, said John Duthie, President of partypoker LIVE.
Players can use their partypoker LIVE Dollars to buy-in for WPTDeepStacks Germany events. partypoker LIVE Dollars are a flexible currency that can be won in satellites on partypoker and used to pay for event buy-ins, travel, hotels, and even visas for the LIVE events. partypoker LIVE Dollars satellites will run weekly guarantees of more than $1.1 million. For more information, click here.
For more information, including World Poker Tour event schedules and the tour’s latest news, visit WPT.com.
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ClubWPT.com is a unique online membership site that offers inside access to the WPT, as well as a sweepstakes-based poker club available in 35 states across the United States with innovative features and state-of-the-art creative elements inspired by WPT’s 16 years of experience in gaming entertainment. WPT also participates in strategic brand license, partnership, and sponsorship opportunities. WPT Enterprises Inc. is a subsidiary of Ourgame International Holdings, Ltd. For more information, go to WPT.com.
About partypoker
partypoker is one of the oldest, most recognised and trusted online poker brands. Launched in August 2001, partypoker is one of the pioneers of the online poker industry.
Every day, thousands of players take a seat at our tables to enjoy cash games, generous tournament prize pools and attractive promotions. Accessible online via web and download or on mobile with iOS and android apps, players can also experience real life partypoker events through their partnerships with Dusk Till Dawn Casino, Nottingham, Playground Poker Club, Montreal, King’s Casino, Rozvadov, or at other partner venues around the world.
partypoker is the leading poker brand of GVC Holding PLC (LSE: GVC), a global online gaming company. GVC Holdings PLC is a leading e-gaming operator in both b2c and b2b markets. GVC has four main product verticals and its core brands are Ladbrokes, Gala Coral, Betboo, Sportingbet, bwin, partypoker, partycasino, party sports and Foxy Bingo. GVC acquired bwin.party digital entertainment plc on 1 February 2016. The Group is headquartered in the Isle of Man and holds licenses in Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Dutch Caribbean, France, Germany (Schleswig-Holstein), Italy, Malta, South Africa, Spain, Sweden and UK.
About partypoker LIVE
partypoker LIVE was created in January 2017 as a global poker tour, with the aim of bringing large field, high guarantee tournaments to players all over the world. Within just 12 months the partypoker LIVE tour has grown into the world’s largest ever poker tour, and is guaranteeing over $200,000,000 in the 2018/2019 season.
Through the new player portal, mypartypokerlive.com, poker players from around the world can get quick access to global poker satellite and schedule information as well as follow live event reporting, watch hundreds of poker videos and earn member rewards.
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