- The World Series of Poker (WSOP) has announced that it is extending its Circuit events internationally. The first overseas WSOP Circuit tournaments will be held in Marrakesh on March 7.
- The news was released just 10 days after the announcement of the first WSOP event to be held in Italy at the Casino of Campione d’Italia by Lake Lugano. As well as the Morocco stop and the Italian event, the WSOP has also established an agreement with the Jubilee Casino in Monterrey, Mexico.
The World Series of Poker (WSOP) has announced that it is extending its Circuit events internationally. The first overseas WSOP Circuit tournaments will be held in Marrakesh on March 7.
“It’s time to emphasize the ‘World’ in World Series of Poker and more aggressively partner with leading casino operators at the regional level,” said WSOP Executive Director Ty Stewart.
The WSOP brand is already known in Europe through the WSOP Europe brand which hosts full bracelet events. The WSOP Circuit events award rings rather than bracelets, but they are highly prized nevertheless.
Buy-ins at Circuit tournaments are set at a lower level than for the main World Series events in Las Vegas. Currently there are twenty venues around the US that play host to their own WSOP Circuit event.
The winners of both the new international tournaments and the current Circuit events will be invited to a $1 million freeroll in Las Vegas—the 2016 WSOP International Casino Championship. On offer alongside the $1 million prize pool will be a coveted WSOP bracelet.
The news was released just 10 days after the announcement of the first WSOP event to be held in Italy at the Casino of Campione d’Italia by Lake Lugano. As well as the Morocco stop and the Italian event, the WSOP has also established an agreement with the Jubilee Casino in Monterrey, Mexico.
The deal with the Jubilee Casino involves establishing a WSOP branded poker room—the first to carry the WSOP brand outside the US, and the first not to be owned by WSOP’s parent company Caesars Entertainment.
