- 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.
A few non-poker events are scheduled at the Imperial Riding School Renaissance Vienna Hotel.
The mental “sporting” festival launched earlier this month with an inaugural event in Prague, which included the 864-player EPT Prague Main Event won by Ramzi Jelassi, who collected €835,000 ($1,091,418).
“Mind sports do not require expensive equipment or physical ability,” the Mind Sports International site proclaims. “They can be enjoyed anytime and anywhere, promoting equality and intellectual development.”
Structures for the Vienna poker events and other games have yet to be posted.
