The World Poker Tour is heading again to the Bay 101 On line casino this yr. The WPT returns to the San Jose on line casino after a prolonged hiatus.
The primary occasion’s return is ready for Oct. 25-29 as a part of a two-week match competition spanning from Oct. 17-31.
The WPT Bay 101 Capturing Star was a fixture on the tour from Season 2 in 2004 till the WPT’s fifteenth season in 2017.
Sam Panzica took down the newest operating of the principle occasion $1,373,000. Different notable champions of this storied occasion embrace Phil Gordon (2004), Ted Forrest (2007), James Carroll (2014), and Taylor Paur (2015).
The fan-favorite occasion lengthy featured a novel bounty format, with every beginning desk together with at the least one ‘Capturing Star’ participant with a $2,500 bounty on their head.
The favored construction is ready to return this yr, together with one other basic characteristic of the occasion: a $5,000 chip chief bonus for the massive stack on the finish of every beginning flight.
“Bay 101 On line casino has lengthy been a staple of the World Poker Tour’s wealthy historical past,” mentioned WPT CEO Adam Pliska. “The gamers, the followers, and the unimaginable group at Bay 101 create a tremendous atmosphere. We sit up for returning to this iconic venue as soon as once more.”
This yr’s occasion will characteristic a delayed last desk that will likely be filmed in Las Vegas at a yet-unreleased date.
“The information of the Capturing Star returning to the World Poker Tour has been on everybody’s want checklist for a very long time,” mentioned On line casino Supervisor Samuel Quinto. “We sit up for recapturing the joy of one among poker’s most talked about occasions.”
Extra data may be discovered on the WPT’s official web site.
