World Poker Tour Adds Another Tourney
Published: Monday, November 07, 2005 Online-Casinos.com
WORLD POKER TOUR ADDS ANOTHER TOURNEY
Fourth season will see the Borgata Winter Poker Open
Responding to the constantly changing face of the poker world, the World Poker Tour has added another event to the 2005-2006 fourth season schedule.
The sixteen event schedule has been joined by the Borgata Winter Poker Open, to be played at the Borgata in Atlantic City, NJ, from January 20th through February 1st.
The Borgata Winter Poker Open will be primarily a No-Limit Hold 'Em event. Buy-ins for the tournaments will range from $500 to $2,500 and there will be a $500 Limit Event and a $300 Ladies' No-Limit event held during the tournament's twelve day run. Everything will be capped by the $9,700 (plus $300) WPT Championship event that will start on January 29th.
The first stop the World Poker Tour made at the Borgata in September was a rousing success, WPT says. 515 players stepped to the felt during the Championship Event, which was won by New Jersey poker veteran Al Ardebili.
The additional stop will put a tremendous strain on the skills of its professional combatants. The WPT will be wrapping up the World Poker Open at the Gold Strike Casino in Tunica, MS, on January 23rd, leaving a very short turnaround time for players to get their "A" game primed for battle in Atlantic City. In all, more than half (9) of the WPT's Season Four schedule of seventeen events will be contested in the first four months of 2006.
Having handed out over $100 million in purses during its first three years, the WPT's Fourth Season is shaping up to be the biggest and best of the Tour's history. It is possible (and will be pretty close) that the Tour will crack the $200 million mark this season.
