On Monday, the World Poker Tour (WPT) released the full schedule for WPT Season XV which, even though the WPT Tournament of Champions just ended, is already underway. Seth Davies won the partypoker.net Canadian Spring Championship to open the season and Andjelko Andrejevic followed that up with a win at WPT Amsterdam. In all, there will be 20 tour stops for Season XV.
There are no new events on the schedule, but there is one new venue. WPT Caribbean, which will be held in November of this year, will be hosted by the Hard Rock Punta Cana in the Dominican Republic.
There will be an addition made to each and every tour stop, the WPT Festival Championship. This is sort of a mini tournament of champions, a tournament which is open only to the winners of the preliminary events at the respective WPT stop. The winner of the WPT Festival Championship will receive a free seat in that stop’s Main Event.
The World Poker Tour is also giving online players more flexibility when qualifying for live tournaments. With WPT Passport, online qualifiers who win $5,000 WPT tourney packages can choose which partypoker-sponsored event they wish to attend, rather than being locked into a specific event based on which qualifier they enter.
The WPT Season XV schedule is below. Dates listed are for the Main Events only; preliminary events begin earlier.
World Poker Tour Season XV Schedule
partypoker.net Canadian Spring Championship: Playground Poker Club – Montreal, Canada; April 29, 2016 – May 5, 2016
WPT Amsterdam: Holland Casino – Amsterdam, Netherlands; May 10, 2016 – May 14, 2016
WPT Choctaw: Choctaw Casino Resort – Durant, Oklahoma; July 29, 2016 – August 2, 2016
WPT Legends of Poker: The Bicycle Hotel & Casino – Bell Gardens, California; August 27, 2016 – September 1, 2016
WPT Borgata Poker Open: Borgata Hotel, Casino and Spa – Atlantic City, New Jersey; September 18, 2016 – September 23, 2016
WPT Maryland Live!: Maryland Live! – Hanover, Maryland; October 1, 2016 – October 5, 2016
WPT bestbet Bounty Scramble: bestbet Poker, Simulcast & Racing – Jacksonville, Florida; October 14, 2016 – October 18, 2016
partypoker WPT UK: Dusk Till Dawn – Nottingham, United Kingdom; October 31, 2016 – November 6, 2016
partypoker.net WPT Montreal: Playground Poker Club – Montreal, Canada; November 11, 2016 – November 17, 2016
partypoker WPT Caribbean: Hard Rock Punta Cana – Punta Cana, Dominican Republic; November 19, 2016 – November 23, 2016
partypoker WPT Prague: King’s Casino – Prague, Czech Republic; December 3, 2016 – December 7, 2016
WPT Five Diamond Poker Classic: Bellagio – Las Vegas, Nevada; December 5, 2016 – December 10, 2016
WPT Borgata Winter Poker Open: Borgata Hotel, Casino and Spa – Atlantic City, New Jersey; January 29, 2017 – February 3, 2017
WPT Fallsview Poker Classic: Fallsview Casino – Ontario, Canada; February 22, 2017 – February 24, 2017
WPT L.A. Poker Classic: Commerce Casino – Commerce, California; February 27, 2017 – March 2, 2017
WPT Bay 101 Shooting Star: Bay 101 Casino – San Jose, California; March 6, 2017 – March 10, 2017
WPT Rolling Thunder: Thunder Valley Casino Resort – Lincoln, California; March 11, 2017 – March 15, 2017
Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown: Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino – Hollywood, Florida; March 31, 2017 – April 2, 2017 (Final Table on April 5, 2017)
Seminole Hard Rock Poker Finale: Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino – Hollywood, Florida; April 2, 2017 – April 4, 2017 (Final Table on April 6, 2017)
WPT Tournament of Champions: Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino – Hollywood, Florida; April 7, 2017 – April 9, 2017