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Preheat Festival Kicks Off This Friday, as WPT Global Boosts Summer Festival to $8 Million GTD to Host Biggest Online Series Yet

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WPT Global is thrilled to announce the boost of our upcoming Summer Festival, increasing the guarantee from $7 million to a personal record $8 million. This isn’t the end of WPT Global giving back to players, as we are giving each Preheat Festival champion a $220 seat in the Summer Festival Championship, which will total over $35,000 in added value.

The Summer Festival also caps a landmark for WPT Global as the biggest online poker series held on the site so far, building from the $4 million GTD Winter Series and building on the recently successful Spring Festival which had $7 million GTD. As usual, WPT Global is the only place you become a WPT Champion from the comfort of your own home, and etch your name in the poker history books.

Preheat Festival

Prepare to warm up your online poker summer this month with $3 million in guarantees at the Preheat Festival, running from July 12-21. This 10-day series features 160 tournaments, with each champion getting a seat locked for the $220 Summer Festival Main Event.

Highlights of the Preheat Festival:

  • ● $220 Championship, $300,000 GTD – This event kicks off with a starting flight on the first day of the festival, with a dozen flights following to get players through to the final Day 2.
  • ● $22 Mini Championship, $80,000 GTD – Following the Championship, this event has numerous starting flights and follows the Best Stack Forward format, which allows players to fire multiple starting flights and build a mountain of chips for Day 2.
  • ● $2,100 High Roller PKO, $200,000 GTD – One of the marquee events of Preheat Festival, this event allows players to make money as soon as they knockout players, generating tons of action pre and post flop.

Preheat Festival has a variety of formats throughout the series, including Short Deck and both standard and progressive bounty formats.

Win $250,000 With the WPT Global Player of the Year Leaderboard

Every event in the Summer Festival allows players to win points and scale up the Player of the Year Leaderboard, which is awarding four $12,400 WPT Passports to live World Poker Tour events all across the world, as well as $25,000 in tournament dollars and $25,400 in cash.

In total, there’s $250,000 on offer in the Player of the Year leaderboard, with the Summer Festival being a prime opportunity to climb your way up and get a prize.

Boost Your Bankroll with The $30,000 GTD Preheat Festival Freeroll

If you play in more than 20 festival events during Preheat, you get a ticket into the $30,000 GTD freeroll, which has a host of Summer Festival tickets up for grabs.

Win Your Way Into The Summer Festival Championship

Any Preheat Festival champion will get a seat in the $500,000 GTD Summer Festival Championship, giving some extra added juice throughout the entire series.

Play More, Win More During Preheat Festival

Your total buy-ins amount during Preheat Festival can earn you up to $1,000 in cashback as well as Summer Festival seats, Global Spins tickets and some Casino Coins to use on the app.

Summer Festival

A week after the Preheat Festival concludes, players can hop straight back into some huge MTT action on WPT Global. The Summer Festival will also be the BIGGEST series WPT Global has hosted, with the original $7 million guarantee getting boosted by an additional $1 million this week. The stakes and action just got even bigger during the Summer Festival, which runs from July 28 to August 18.

Highlights of Summer Festival:

  • ● $3,500 WPT Championship, $1 million GTD
  • ● $1,050 WPT Prime, $750,000 GTD
  • ● $530 WPT500, $400,000 GTD
  • ● $220 Summer Festival Championship, $500,000 GTD
  • ● $22 Summer Festival Mini Championship, $150,000 GTD

The jam-packed Summer Festival schedule aims to replicate the success of Spring Festival, giving WPT Global players the chance to become WPT Champions online, win their way onto the live World Poker Tour and secure huge prizes on the online felt.

Stay posted to our social media channels and blog to keep up-to-date on our Preheat and Summer Festival results and promotions as they happen.

For more information, please reach out to: [email protected]

 

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