Poker to Feature in Vienna "Mind Sports" Event Poker to Feature in Vienna "Mind Sports" Event
Key Takeaways
  • The Vienna Mind Sports Festival will include poker as a featured game.
  • The two-week mental challenge with main events, satellites and side events, runs from February 11-25.
  • The festival includes a WPT $3,500 re-entry tournament with two day 1s held from February 19-24 at Montesino Casino.
  • There is also an $1100 buy-in Grand Series of Poker tournament from February 13-16.

The Vienna Mind Sports Festival, an event that includes popular heady games like poker and chess and the obscure apterous, is slated for February.

The two-week mental challenge with main events, satellites and side events, runs from February 11-25. Along with a WPT tournament, there’s open-face Chinese poker, backgammon, chess, risk, scrabble, bridge Magic the Gathering, and eSports.

Also featured is Apterous, a game of word and number puzzles, based off the British game show Countdown.

Along with the WPT Vienna, a $3,500 re-entry with two day 1s held from February 19-24 at Montesino Casino, there is also an $1100 buy-in Grand Series of Poker tournament from February 13-16.