It is with great excitement that we announce today the schedule for the WPT Montreal 2018. This year, we proudly kick off the new 4-year partnership between partypoker LIVE and WPT with Season XVII WPT® Montreal.
“We’re thrilled partypoker LIVE and WPT have agreed to a four-year partnership – two iconic brands of poker coming together to offer players all over the world more choice of where to play,” Mike Sexton, Chairman of partypoker, said.
“We’re excited to announce the first event will take place at Playground Poker Club in Montreal, where we will work together to offer three components of the World Poker Tour – WPT Main Tour, WPTDeepStacks, and WPT500.”
The exact number of events boasted by the festival has yet to be confirmed, but we know that it will be held from October 26th to November 4th of 2018, and will harbour “The Big 3”:
- WPT500
Buy-in: $500 + $50
Guarantee: $1,000,000
- WPT Main Event
Buy-in: $5,000 + $300
Guarantee: $5,000,000
- WPTDeepStacks
Buy-in: $1,500 + $150
Guarantee: $1,000,000
These three tournaments and all other yet-to-be-confirmed events in this festival will be available for players to buy into with partypoker LIVE Dollars, the flexible poker currency that can be won in specific satellites on partypoker. Look for PP LIVE Dollars on the partypoker daily tournament schedule. Click here for more info on the currency.
We are extremely happy to once again work with partypoker LIVE and WPT, as our previous partnerships with these two groups produced some of Canada’s most prestigious poker festivals. With WPTDeepStacks coming to Playground Poker Club for the first time and a $5,000,000 guaranteed Main Event, players have more than enough to look forward to!
