Casino Barcelona to Host WPT Championship

Casino Barcelona is going to be hosting the World Poker Tour Main Event for the second time.  The reason they are the hosts yet again is because of the great success they had last year.

Steve Lipscomb, the World Poker Tour Founder, President and CEO said that the World Poker Championship that was held in Spain was a success and added that the group was happy to take the event again to Spain.

The Group Peralada operates the casinos in Spain and Casino Barcelona is also a part of their group and they are going to be the Spanish co host and will be present in several sectors, like gaming, wineries and they also organism the International Music Festival, hotels and golf.

The Group has also helped to organism several poker tournaments and the Casino Barcelona is famous for organizing poker tournaments.  The event is going to be held next month in May and they are expecting around 400 players to show up for the main event.

The World Poker Tour website is now running weekly prizes so players can win the $5,000 they will need for their ticket to the main event and another $300 for the entry.

There will be unlimited entry into the Championship on May 21st and 22nd followed by the main event scheduled to start on May 24th with the finals set to happen on May 27th.