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World Poker Tour Event at Parx This Weekend
The WPT event held at the local casino will be televised in February.
is hosting the World Poker Tour (WPT) televised 11th season opening tournament beginning today at noon with another opening day event on Saturday at noon.
“We’re very excited to bring the World Poker Tour to Parx Casino in Pennsylvania,” WPT president Adam Pliska told Patch. “Parx has expanded its beautiful new poker room and the WPT is expanding as well. We’ve seen big growth over the last two years and we’re glad to begin this season at Parx.”
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This WPT tournament is a $3,500 buy-in for the main event. If that’s too rich for your blood, Pliska said players can also play their way into the main event through satellite tournaments that only cost a few hundred dollars.
The final table is set for Aug. 15.
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The winner of the main event will win the jackpot from the final table, their name engraved on the WPT’s Champions Cup and a seat at the $25,000 buy-in WPT championship at the Bellagio in Las Vegas.
But Pliska said WPT events aren’t just for the players.
“Locals can also stop by to get the WPT experience by watching the tournament taping, hang out with Royal Flush Girls at the RFG Social Bar or meet the poker talent,” Pliska said.
Some of the familiar WPT names likely to appear at the event include:
- Allen Kessler
- Andy Frankenberger
- Barry Schulman
- Bobby Oboodi
- Brian Hastings
- Chris Klodnicki
- Chris Tryba
- Christian Harder
- Dan Buzgon
- Dan O'Brien
- Darryl Fish
- David Tuthill
- Dwyte Pilgrim
- Dylan Hortin
- Eric Baldwin
- Faraz Jaka
- Freddy Deeb
- Hafiz Khan
- Harrison Gimbel
- Jake Schwartz
- James St. Hilaire
- Jason Koon
- Jeff Forrest
- Joe Serock
- Jonathan Little
- Joseph Cheong
- Justin Zaki
- Kathy Liebert
- Kyle Julius
- Marvin Retteinmaier
- Matt Brady
- Matt Giannetti
- Matt Glantz
- Michael Binger
- Mike Sowers
- Mizrachis
- Mohsin Charania
- Nick Binger
- Shannon Shorr
- Shaun Deeb
- Taylor Von K
- Todd Terry
- Ty Reiman
- Will Failla
It’s the first WPT championship tournament held at a Pennsylvania casino and the people at Parx are proud about that.
Ari Mizrachi, Parx table games director, told PhillyBurbs that this event would give the poker room at Parx some “national awareness.”
“That’s why we thought the World Poker Tour was absolutely the right partnership. People out in Las Vegas or Florida or Connecticut or California — all the big poker hubs of the U.S. — will know who we are,” Mizrachi told PhillyBurbs.
The tournament is set to air on the Fox Sports Network in February as three separate one-hour programs, Pliska said. If you can’t wait for that, the event will be streamed live on WPT.com.
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