29 with a $1 million guaranteed, $600 buy-in No-limit Hold’em event. The full WPT World Championship festival schedule features more than 30 events beginning Nov. “The journey to December begins now, and we plan on giving players another unforgettable experience at Wynn Las Vegas.”

“The WPT World Championship at Wynn Las Vegas is poised to reach new heights and we wanted to match that expectation with a guarantee that no live poker tournament has ever seen before,” WPT CEO Adam Pliska said in a statement.

12 to 21 and includes four starting flights. This year’s WPT World Championship runs Dec.

Canadian Eliot Hudon won the inaugural event for $4.136 million, the largest prize awarded in the WPT’s 20-year history. The $10,400 buy-in No-limit Hold’em event featured a $15 million guarantee when it premiered last year. The WPT World Championship in December at Wynn Las Vegas will feature a record $40 million guaranteed prize pool, it was announced Thursday. It’s going much bigger for this year’s event. The World Poker Tour offered one of the largest guaranteed prize pools in poker history last year. (Erik Verduzco / Las Vegas Review-Journal) Eliot Hudon poses for a photo after his win in the final table of the World Poker Tour World Championship at the Wynn hotel-casino in Las Vegas, Tuesday, Dec.

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