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World Poker Tour London Starts Today

Big Names To Line Out For WPT London £5,300 Buy In Event at Palm Beach Casino

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London hosts the World Poker Tour this weekThe World Poker Tour makes its first ever stop in the UK today, rolling into the Palm Beach Casino, London.

Day 1A of the £5,000 + £300 buy in WPT London Poker Classic main event gets underway this afternoon and runs until September 4.

It will be filmed for broadcast at a later date and will see a host of the world’s biggest poker stars take part including Card Player’s Barry Shulman, November Niner’s Matt Jarvis and Filippo Candio, Phil Ivey, Dave ‘Devilfish’ Ulliott, James Akenhead, Alexander Kravchenko, Joe Beevers, Nicholas Levi, Erik Seidel, Dragan Galic, and Tony G.

The festival also features a £15,000 buy in high rollers event and Simon Tomsett of Genting Casinos said, “The tournament prize pool of the London Poker Festival events alone is expected to easily exceed £12 million from a calendar of over 100 events. London is the poker capital of the world in September and the place to be if you are a poker player wherever you are from.”