{"id":56148,"date":"2022-11-28T17:12:53","date_gmt":"2022-11-28T17:12:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pokerscout.com\/?p=56148"},"modified":"2022-11-28T17:12:53","modified_gmt":"2022-11-28T17:12:53","slug":"world-poker-tour-announces-partnership-with-texapoker-for-prime-events-in-france-italy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pokerscout.com\/world-poker-tour-announces-partnership-with-texapoker-for-prime-events-in-france-italy\/","title":{"rendered":"World Poker Tour Announces Partnership With Texapoker for Prime Events in France, Italy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <strong>World Poker Tour<\/strong> is heading to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pokerscout.com\/france\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">France<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pokerscout.com\/italy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Italy<\/a> next year as the company announced three stops in the countries for 2023 last week. The tour is partnering with the <strong>Texapoker<\/strong> group to present several WPT Prime festivals in western Europe.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cEven amidst an incredible 20th-anniversary season, we are preparing for our progression into 2023,\u201d WPT CEO <strong>Adam Pliska<\/strong> said in a news release. \u201cPartnering with Texapoker provides us with a wonderful opportunity to return the WPT brand to the French market.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The two-year agreement with Texapoker promises three poker series each of the next two years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span id=\"a_look_at_the_french_italian_wpt_events\">A look at the French, Italian WPT events<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>WPT Prime<\/strong> kicks off the WPT\u2019s Season XXI live tour schedule on Jan. 22 with a festival at <strong>Club Circus<\/strong> Paris in France. The \u20ac1,100 buy-in main event runs Feb. 1-5.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cTo welcome the WPT in our Circus Club in 2023 is a big triumph for the city of Paris, the poker players, our club, and our group company,\u201d a Club Circus Paris executive said in announcing the series.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cParis is the poker capital of Europe. The Circus brand, which is in six countries and two continents, continues to develop and this partnership strengthens the Club as a stronghold of Parisian poker.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The next stop is the WPT Prime <strong>Aix-en-Provence<\/strong> from Oct. 9-15 at Pasino Grand. This is the first time the tour has ventured to Aix-en-Provence in southern France. PMU.fr will offer online satellites for French players to win seats to the $1,100 championship events.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The WPT Prime <strong>Sanremo<\/strong> festival series runs June 5-11 at Casin\u00f2 di Sanremo in Italy, near the southwestern border of France. The property also hosted a WPTDeepStacks event in June 2018. That tour has been phased out and now replaced by WPT Prime.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-53365 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pokerscout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/wpt-world-online-championships-start-at-partypoker.jpg\" alt=\"The online poker action continues in the WPT World Online Championships at partypoker through this weekend with plenty more on the agenda.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"493\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pokerscout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/wpt-world-online-championships-start-at-partypoker.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.pokerscout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/wpt-world-online-championships-start-at-partypoker-300x144.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.pokerscout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/wpt-world-online-championships-start-at-partypoker-768x370.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2><span id=\"gearing_up_for_wpt_world_championships\">Gearing up for WPT World Championships<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As an added bonus to the new partnership, Texapoker will give away seats to the upcoming WPT World Championship. Four <strong>French Championship of Poker<\/strong> winners will earn seats.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cEleven years after my first WPT partnership, I am very pleased and proud to work with this brand and to run three stops in France and Italy,\u201d Texapoker chairman and CEO Apo Chantzis said.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Here\u2019s a look at the three French and Italian WPT Prime stops:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">WPT Prime Paris, Club Circus Paris (France) \u2013 Jan. 22 \u2013 Feb. 5<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">WPT Prime Sanremo, Casin\u00f2 di Sanremo (Italy) \u2013\u00a0June 5-11<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">WPT Prime Aix-en-Provence, Pasino Grand (France) \u2013\u00a0Oct. 9-15<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The World Poker Tour is heading to France and Italy next year as the company announced three stops in the countries for 2023 last week. 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