The World Poker Tour is about to get wild and chaotic, to the advantage of poker followers in all places.
The WPT introduced the creation of WPT Wildcard, ” a brand new poker model and format designed for poker gamers and followers, geared in the direction of social media content material, creator participation, and non-traditional gameplay that brings sudden twists to the felt.
Constructed with streaming, short-form content material, and neighborhood engagement in thoughts, WPT Wildcard introduces a recent entertainment-first layer to poker,” based on a press launch.
“WPT Wildcard affords a repeatedly occurring slate of unpredictable gameplay environments designed for content material creators and their communities,” mentioned WPT CEO Adam Pliska. “This revolutionary collection breaks the mildew of conventional poker, mixing competitors and leisure in methods followers won’t ever anticipate.”
The WPT will launch this model on the WPT Prime Lodge collection in Austin subsequent month with two distinctive occasions.
The primary might be referred to as Coronary heart Assault Poker, which takes place Oct. 8. It’s might be a live-streamed money recreation full of WPT Ambassadors and content material creators who might be strapped to coronary heart charge screens.
This isn’t a brand new idea. ESPN’s present “sport’s Science” wired up gamers for one in all its section, and the MANSIONPoker.web Poker Dome Problem collection in 2006 hooked screens and displayed the participant’s coronary heart charges to viewers.
It was enjoyable to see then, and might be enjoyable to see in October.
Chaos to rein
After which on Oct.12, a $300 occasion open to anybody referred to as the Thriller Bounty Wildcard Chaos might be held. This one goes to be wild due to its “unconventional gameplay components reminiscent of power-ups and penalties that might make or break a participant’s probabilities at victory.”
The Lodge has unfold this kind of occasion just a few occasions earlier than, however that is the primary time WPT’s identify is connected.
The chaos comes within the type of penalties and power-ups that gamers obtain at any time when they earn a bounty with a knock-out. Additionally they can win a money prize ranging between $500 and $5,000.
The ability-ups vary from swapping tables and working the board twice, to respawning with a mean stack after being knocked-out, by no means posting a small blind once more, and even teleporting to the ultimate desk.
Penalties that gamers might un-luck into embrace devastating ones like “stack swap,” which requires the participant to commerce stacks with the shortest stack in play, forfeiting all bounties, not with the ability to increase throughout one orbit, and dropping half their chips. Right here’s all of them:
The Lodges Instagram web page exhibits gamers getting chaotic in an occasion held in Might.
WPT Wildcard occasions will develop past Austin, with further tournaments deliberate at future WPT stops worldwide.
