A few days back, WPT Global announced the first of its four major online series planned for 2024, the Spring Festival. In the original announcement, the operator revealed the details about a few marquee tournaments, with the full schedule to follow.
Now, that schedule is out in its entirety, and even a quick glance makes it clear that the Spring Festival brings something for all types of players. Buy-ins start as low as $5.50, accommodating those with smaller bankrolls. On the other side of the spectrum is the $3,500 WPT Championship event, awarding an actual WPT Championship title.
The Spring Festival kicked off on May 5 at WPT Global and it will last for full three weeks. There are $7,000,000 in guaranteed prizes up for grabs spread across 315 individual events, with at least a dozen tournaments taking place every single day.
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Although the Spring Festival features over 300 tournaments, a few of them will steal the show, as is the case with most series. In addition to the $220 Festival Championship and $22 Mini Festival Championship, offering $500,000 and $150,000 in guaranteed prizes, respectively, the series will several WPT-branded events.
The first of these is the WPT500, with a buy-in of $530 and a guarantee of $400,000. The $1,060 WPT Prime event comes with a promise of $750,000, while the $3,500 WPT Championship tournament guarantees a cool million.
These four events will account for over a third of the entire guaranteed prize pool for the Spring Festival. This still leaves plenty of money to be split across the remaining 311 tournaments, with the average prize pool outside of the big four just shy of $15,000.
WPT Global Spring Festival Key Event Info
| Event | Day 1 Dates | Day 2 | Guarantee |
|---|---|---|---|
| #4 $22 Spring Festival Mini Championship | Daily from May 5 | May 25 | $150,000 |
| #5 $220 Spring Festival Championship | Daily from May 5 | May 26 | $500,000 |
| #10 $530 WPT500 | Daily from May 5 | May 12 | $400,000 |
| #118 $1,060 WPT Prime | Daily from May 12 | May 19 | $750,000 |
| #213 $3,500 WPT Championship | Daily from May 19 | May 26 | $1,000,000 |
Three Weeks of Fast-Paced Action
WPT Global’s Spring Festival brings plenty of action to match players of all bankrolls and game preferences. The schedule features a quality mix of PKO tournaments, deep stack events, and short-handed action. In addition to Texas Hold’em, there are several PLO and Short Deck events on the docket as well.
As mentioned, buy-ins start at $5.50, and there is a fair number of tournaments in the $5.50 – $33 bracket, with guarantees ranging from a few thousand all the way up to $25,000.
For players with bigger buy-ins and those willing to grind satellites for higher buy-in tickets, there is plenty of action at a $55+ level, with guarantees occasionally reaching low six figures.
In addition to big guarantees and traditionally soft action at the tables, the operator is giving players additional incentives to play as many events as possible.
All rake gathered during the festival will be distributed to the players via a leaderboard and three freerolls. Players will earn their seats in the freerolls based on the number of tournaments played, so those who play more will reap bigger rewards once the action concludes.
Once all tournaments are in the books, there will be the Champion of Champions freeroll event, where all individual event winners will get to play for free and compete for the $12,400 WPT Passport package for the winner and plenty of other valuable prizes.
There is plenty of online tournament action happening in May, but WPT Global offers the best mix of nice guarantees, soft games, and valuable promotions, plus the unique opportunity to win a WPT Champion title, so sign up and get in the mix!
