WPT Sets 21-Day Sydney Festival With Two Championships
The Star slate runs Sept. 10-30 and adds a ladies event, PLO action, a mystery bounty and a $10,000 high roller.
World Poker Tour is bringing its Australia festival back to The Star Sydney from Sept. 10-30, with a 21-day schedule that packs in 36 tournaments. The headliners are the A$1,500 WPT Prime Australia Championship and the A$5,000 WPT Australia Championship, and both are set to end on livestreamed final tables.
The slate opens with the A$1,250 Australian Poker Cup from Sept. 10-14. The festival also includes a A$500 Ladies Australian Championship, a A$1,150 Sydney PLO Open, a A$1,350 Mystery Bounty, a A$10,000 WPT Australia High Roller and a A$5,000 Australian PLO Championship. Players will also have a wide satellite menu feeding the biggest events, with seats available into the Australian Poker Cup, both championship events, the Mystery Bounty, the Australian PLO Championship, the Mini Championship and other featured tournaments.
The two championship events are spread across the back half of the series. The WPT Prime Australia Championship runs Sept. 17-22, with four starting flights beginning Sept. 17, Day 2 on Sept. 21 and a champion decided the next day. The WPT Australia Championship starts Sept. 24, runs through Sept. 30, returns for Day 2 on Sept. 27 and closes with a livestreamed final table on Sept. 30.
As covered in May, WPT had already flagged a Sydney return for this fall. That earlier announcement also said the festival would culminate with the WPT Australia Championship, alongside the WPT Prime Australia Championship and several side events.
The return comes with some recent context from last year’s WPT Australia Main Event. That event drew 600 runners, built a $1,961,000 prize pool and ended with Alan Pham beating Jordan Bautista for $364,958. WPT CEO Adam Pliska said the tour is thrilled to return to The Star Sydney and called Australia one of the world’s most passionate poker regions.
