The Ashes

If this is news to you the World Poker Tour is sponsored by Party Gaming, Party Poker was one of the very earliest online pay for play poker rooms and it has evolved into a force to be reckoned with.

The main focus of their market for the past ten years has really been the US and it wasn’t until the promulgation of UIGEA that they shifted their envious eyes to the European Marketplace. However all the Party Gaming sites, Party Casino, Party Poker, Party Bingo are still steeped in US sub culture.

To try and shake this image a little, expand out of their US core market and into the rest of the world, they are taking their poker tour to the United Kingdom for the first time. The next Party Gaming World Poker Tour is going to be taking place in London and the dates for the televised main event are 30th August to 5th September 2010. The venue is the Genting’s, Palm Beach Casino in the Mayfair Hotel – London’s West End!

All you British poker players had better start practicing and see if you can get into the satellites for this event, the main even will have a £5 000 buy in and they are expecting two starting days as well as 400 participants from all over the world for the main event. Winners of the ” WPT London Poker Classic” – which is a pretty prestigious title, will be going forward to THE poker event in Las Vegas – the “WPT Championship” in 2011.

Now we have been talking about Poker Tournaments in a series of article. If you really want to see how it works, follow Party Poker and see how they time promotions at the site to fit in with this massive prize winning event. They will be offering freerolls, which could see any number of winners fighting their way to the top to receive free buy in to the main table.

What generally goes along with a prize such as this in an international poker competition, is often air fares, and accommodation too. So if your poker is up to scratch and you have been playing at tournament level, keep your eyes peeled for promotions based on the WPT. If you have not been practicing tournament level play, now is the time to start, there is no time like the present to start playing the winning poker you believe you have inside of you.

Online qualifiers will definitely be taking place, and we know for a fact that Party Gaming has organized a series of land-based satellite games which will be taking place in poker clubs across London this summer.

The Palm Beach is one of the largest gaming rooms in London, it is set in the old Mayfair Hotel, Grand Ballroom. While no one really has use for Art Deco Ballrooms any longer, they certainly have need of poker rooms with a large space to fill. WPT tournaments will also be taking place in Cyprus, Romania, Morocco, Slovakia, Italy and Spain, and next season events will be launched in France.