PokerStars North American Poker Tour Confirmed for 2025

PokerStars has solely confirmed to pokerfuse that the North American Poker Tour (NAPT) will return to Las Vegas this yr, marking the third consecutive yr it would run.

The dates haven’t been introduced, however it has been confirmed that the tour will run roughly concurrently final yr. This implies gamers ought to count on the NAPT to happen in early November. It’s extremely probably that the NAPT will as soon as once more run over a 10-day interval.

Purchase-ins on the NAPT usually vary from $250 to $25,000 — which might be anticipated for 2025. On-line qualifiers can even run on PokerStars US and PokerStars Ontario, as seen in earlier editions. The Important Occasion, NAPT Cup, Excessive Curler, Tremendous Excessive Curler and Thriller Bounty tournaments are all anticipated to return.

“[We] completely plan to convey again NAPT to Las Vegas and make this an everyday a part of the poker stars reside occasion calendar,” Steve Preiss VP of PokerStars North America informed pokerfuse. “We’re planning to supply extra regional occasions within the Northeast the place our gamers really play on-line and tying into reside occasions at properties in these states within the Northeast,” Preiss added.

Regional Occasions in North America

Per Preiss’ feedback, extra reside occasions within the Northeast of North America will happen in 2025. These occasions will happen in areas the place there’s additionally a PokerStars on-line presence, which incorporates New Jersey, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Ontario.

Final yr, PokerStars held NAPT regional occasions in Philadelphia and Maryland for the primary time, which gave winners packages to the NAPT as a part of their Gold Move promotion. This was a powerful success in 2024: 115 gamers obtained despatched to the NAPT with a Gold Move that went on to play within the NAPT Important Occasion. Of those, 115, 20 made it into the cash, strolling away with $240,600 in whole prizes.

Gold move packages to the NAPT comprise of essential occasion buy-in, lodge lodging at some point of the tour together with a journey and bills stipend. These packages are valued as much as $10,000.

For now, we are able to assume Philadelphia might be a key location for 2025, as Preiss praised their partnership with Philly Stay! calling them a “nice accomplice” and that their mixed reside occasions would undoubtedly proceed for this yr.

Preiss additionally alluded to a reside cease coming to Ontario. He stated PokerStars wish to run small regional occasions that develop into one thing resembling the NAPT with particular “growth into Ontario” — which might be a really thrilling growth for gamers in Canada. And the tie in with PokerStars Ontario on-line website might be paramount.

It’s really very uncommon for the net poker operator to run a reside occasion in a state the place there is no such thing as a companion of on-line poker — the NAPT operating in Nevada is an exception.

For instance, the a lot beloved and iconic European Poker Tour (EPT) Prague cease might not run this yr, because of PokerStars having pulled out of the Czech market. If EPT Prague doesn’t run this yr it would come as a blow to followers of the model, however it will be in step with PokerStars’ ethos of reside and on-line occasion pairings.

Buyer First Ethos

PokerStars is thought for operating world-class reside occasions, aiming to raise the expertise by placing prospects first and listening to suggestions. One such manner they’ve achieved this not too long ago is by making a match particularly designed for gamers that historically haven’t seen their recreation of alternative represented at reside festivals. On the EPT Prague final yr, PokerStars debut their Stay Spin & Go Championship, a extremely anticipated reside model of the immensely standard on-line poker format, Spin & Go — which ran to nice success.

Getting face time with their prospects in North American markets the place on-line poker can also be accessible might be a precedence in 2025.

“We need to work together with our prospects. We love with the ability to brazenly have interaction with them on suggestions on every part from product to promotions to only get an understanding of what’s necessary to them and the way we generally is a higher firm based mostly on that,” Preiss concluded.

PokerStars Stay Cease 2025

PokerStars has already unveiled plenty of its European and South American reside stops for 2025. There might be six stops underneath the Brazilian Collection of Poker (BSOP) model and two EPT flagship occasions happening in Europe, in Monte Carlo and Barcelona. A brand new sequence of regional reside stops underneath the brand new PokerStars Open model can also be happening throughout Europe in 2025.