The World Poker Tour announced the core of its Season XVIII schedule this week.

The World Poker Tour announced the core of their Season XVIII Main Tour schedule this week. The lineup includes 13 events in the United States plus another four international events as a part of their continued partnership with partypoker LIVE.

The WPT has also scheduled the first five final tables that will travel to Las Vegas and be played tat the HyperX Esports Arena at the Luxor to be taped for broadcast on FOX Sports Regional Networks.

“As the World Poker Tour nears the end of a record-breaking Season XVII, the WPT is proud to present our players and fans exciting events to look forward to in Season XVII, inclined the return to HyperX Esports Arena for TV final tables,” said CEO of the World Poker Tour, Adam Pliska.

“Season XVII was ground-breaking of the World Poker Tour. With WPT events held for the first time in Russia, Vietnam and New Zealand, we continued across the globe,” Pliska said. “The WPT Borgata Winter Poker Open and WPT Five Diamond World Poker Classic drew record-setting fields. Erkut Yilmaz won two WPT titles on his way to winning the Hublot WPT Player of the Year award. As always, the best is yet to come, and we are thrilled to begin preparing for another season of premier global poker events.”

With so much success on the World Poker Tour last season, it should be no surprise that fourteen of the seventeen announced events will be returns to stops the WPT made in 2018-2019.

During the first half of the tour, in 2019, seven of the nine events will be the same as in Season XVII.

The changes come in the form of a return to the Bicycle Casino in Los Angeles for the $5,000 buy-in WPT Legends of Poker. A longtime staple on the schedule, the Legends of Poker took a year off from the Main Tour and will now be back in late August. WPT UK from the Dusk Till Dawn Casino is also back in the first half of Season XVIII, making its first appearance on the Main Tour since Season XV.

Cornerstone stops such as WPT Borgata Poker Open, WPT Seminole Rock & Roll Poker Open and, of course, the Bellagio Five Diamond World Poker Classic are all back as well.

DATES EVENT BUY-IN
7/20-7/25 WPT Gardens Poker Festival $5,000
8/31- 9/4 WPT Legends of Poker $5,000
9/15-9/20 WPT Borgata Poker Open $3,500
9/28-10/2 WPT Maryland at Live! Casino $3,500
9/30-10/6 WPT UK at Dusk Till Dawn £3,300
10/11-10/15 WPT bestbet Bounty Scramble $5,000
10/28-11/3 WPT Montreal $3,300 CAD
11/29-12/4 WPT Seminole Rock & Roll Poker Open $3,500
12/16-12/20 WPT Five Diamond World Poker Classic $10,000

Like the first half of the schedule, the tournaments announced for 2020 strongly resemble the schedule for the previous season. The only major difference will be a stop at the King’s Casino in Rozvadov, Czech Republic for WPT Germany.

The California Swing is still intact with back-to-back stops at the Commerce Casino in Los Angeles for the LAPC and a trip up north to Thunder Valley Casino Resort for WPT Rolling Thunder. While there is no mention yet of a possible return of San Jose’s Bay 101 Shooting Stars, there is a significant gap in time between stops in early March and late April where it may fit.

DATES EVENT BUY-IN
1/11-1/15 WPT Gardens Poker Championship* $10,000
1/16-1/30 WPT Borgata Winter Poker Open* $3,500
2/17-2/23 WPT Germany €3,300
2/29-3/4 WPT L.A. Poker Classic* $10,000
3/7-3/10 WPT Rolling Thunder $5,000
4/30-5/5 WPT Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown* $3,500
5/15-5/18 WPT Choctaw* $3,700

* final table to be played at HyperX Esports Arena in Las Vegas

Additional Main Tour stops are expected to be announced at a later date.