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WPT Assembles All-Star Cast for Spring Festival’s International Broadcast
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The World Poker Tour is doubling down on its first mobile-only main event by adding international live streams to the mix.
Daniel Dvoress heads an international team of commentators for the WPT Spring Festival Main Event. (Image: WPT/Twitter)
Not content with targeting the burgeoning market for mobile gaming, the WPT will show its Spring Festival around the world in multiple languages.
Fans will be able to watch the final table of the $1.5 million guaranteed main event in English, Vietnamese, and German.
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World Poker Tour may have been back in vintage form last month with a field of more than 1,500 turning up in Florida, but it will continue this month in decidedly non-vintage form: on an Asia-based app.
The WPT Spring Festival is set to begin today with the first of 13 numbered events as part of a series that s scheduled to stretch from Feb. 11-22.
Perhaps most interestingly, all of the tournaments will take place on the Poker King app. All of the buy-ins are denoted in Chinese yuan, and the total guarantee offered will be ¥12 million (~$1.85 million). The bulk of that comes from the
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WPT Targets Asia’s 1.2 Billion Mobile Gamers with Unique Spring Festival
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The World Poker Tour is breaking new ground in more ways than one, thanks to a new partnership with Poker King.
Tom Dwan and Phil Ivey will be among the celebrities playing the mobile-only WPT Spring Festival on Poker King. (Image: Kakuchopurei)
Poker King made headlines last year when it recruited Tom Dwan and Phil Ivey to peddle its wares. Now, with its mobile poker app gaining momentum in Asia, it’s linked up with the WPT for a unique tournament series.
The WPT Spring Festival will run between Feb. 11 and 22. Ivey and Dwan will take part, but the real USP is the fact it’s a mobile-only series.