WPT® Back in Canada and Scheduled to Land at Playground Poker Club
After a multi-year absence from the Canadian market, the World Poker Tour® (WPT®) is returning to Canada with an official Main Event tour stop scheduled for November 2012 at Playground Poker Club just outside of Montreal, Quebec.
The growing popularity of the Playground Poker Classic has created serious demand from the poker playing community for Playground to offer not one, but two, annual tournament series. And Playground has, once again, stepped up to fulfill those player demands through a partnership with the WPT.
WPT Montreal is slated in for November 23rd ‘-26th and will be the Main Event of Playground’s newest two-week tournament series, The Playground Poker Fall Classic.
‘The opportunity to welcome the World Poker Tour to Playground wasn’t something we could pass up,’ said Playground COO David Montour.
WPT Montreal at Playground Poker Club sponsored by PartyPoker.net will be the only official tour stop for the World Poker Tour in Canada in 2012. With a $3000 + $300 Main Event buy-in with re-entry there will be plenty of poker action on the felt.
‘We’ve had some of the biggest names in the poker world walk through our doors and the WPT gives us an opportunity to add to that list.’ Montour continued.
Because this is a World Poker Tour Main Event WPT Player of the Year points will be up for grabs along with bragging rights to the winner as Canada’s WPT Champion. WPT talent will be on hand during play down and VIPs and lucky audience members will get to sit alongside the popular Royal Flush Girls while they watch the players at the final table compete for the first-place prize money and to have their names etched onto the prestigious WPT Champion’s Cup and Champion’s Trophy. In addition to claiming the coveted WPT title the tournament champion will also receive a commemorative gold bracelet and a one-of-a-kind championship belt courtesy of Playground Poker Club.
