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WPT Comes to Italy

Tuesday, March 10th, 2009

For the first time ever an event on the World Poker Tour circuit will be played in Italy. The tournament will be held at Casino di Venezia in Venice the 6th of May 2009.

The tournament is arranged by WPT together with online gaming giant Bwin.com. The final table will be played the 10th of May and you will be able to follow all the final table action via live stream at Bwin.com.

During this time there will also be a couple of side events played for those who bust out of the main event or just want to play in tournaments with a lower buy in. Obviously there will also be a lot of cash games running for the players who are busted out of the tournaments.

The buy in for the main event is €4000+€400. The winner of the tournament will be guaranteed to win some serious cash but also a WPT Bracelet and a place in the WPT Championship hich is worth $25.000.