It’s time to drop your britches and get some riches. The World Poker Tour (WPT) is making its inaugural visit to the Midwest in March, introducing the Hollywood Poker Open, a new 28 event series at the Hollywood Casino in Lawrenceburg, Indiana. The tour will culminate with a no-limit hold’em $10,000 WPT Championship Main Event from March 20th-24th with final table action being filmed for broadcast on Fox Sports Net in June.
With an estimated first prize of over $1 million and as always, a $25,000 paid entry into the WPT World Championship in Las Vegas, the winner will be in hog heaven—literally.
The recent addition of a Midwest circuit marks the newest US destination on the tour in years, after much time was been spent expanding the brand internationally during the first leg of Season VIII — including new stops in exotic locales like Cyprus, Moracco, Venice, and Bratislava, Slovakia. Expanding internationally seems like the smartest venture for the WPT when a US-dominated tour schedule became bloated and watered down like an overworked plow ox. This was evidenced by the removal of the North American Poker Championship at the Fallsview Casino in Canada as well as the spring visits to Foxwoods in Connecticut and the Borgata in New Jersey shortly after the international dates were announced. There are still currently 12 stops in the US, 1/3 of which take place at the Bellagio in Las Vegas.
Located just minutes from Cincinnati, Ohio, the Hollywood Poker Open gives Midwestern residents their first opportunity at poker fame without having to take a flatbed full of chicken coops across the country to find it.
That noise you’re hearing isn’t the dinner bell—it’s destiny.
