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World Poker Tours Asia online partners with Natural8

Asian poker players gear up as one of the most awaited World Poker Tours is about to begin! The WPT glory in partnership with Natural8 has a $100 million HKD in guaranteed prize pools. Natural8 is one of Asia’s most popular online gaming platforms that offers a varied number of games. Natural8 is known for the number of satellite events and the major Asian tournaments on their player-friendly platform. 

The WPT Asia Online is a 22-event series, beginning from 3 October to 22 October, mainly featuring tournaments which are restricted to players in Asian markets. The series includes various game formats, multiple leaderboards, and the single biggest online poker tournament guarantee in the region’s history. The WPT Asia Main Event has a $10 million HKD guarantee with a $10,000 HKD buy-in. There will also be National Championship events for Philippines, Taiwan, Cambodia, Vietnam, Korea, Japan, and Macau.

The buy-in and guarantee for each of these events will be in the host country’s currency and the eventual champion of each event also earns a WPT Passport valued at HK$23,000. The event will feature three separate leaderboards, each covering a single week of play. The top 10 players for each country will have their count towards the leaderboards, and the top-performing country will then play in freeroll tournaments with prizes of $50,000 HKD, $50,000 HKD, and $100,000 HKD.

See full schedule here:

DATE	TIME	EVENT	BUY-IN	GUARANTEED
Oct 3	20:00	Event #1: Beat the Pros Bounty	2,100 HKD	1,000,000
Oct 3	21:00	Event #2: WPTDeepStacks	8,000 HKD	1,500,000
Oct 4	20:00	Event #3: WPT Vietnam Championship	25,000,000 VND	5,000,000,000
Oct 4	21:00	Event #4: WPT300	300 HKD	1,000,000
Oct 6	20:00	Event #5: WPT Korea Championship	1,650,000 KRW	150,000,000
Oct 8	21:00	Event #6: Short Deck Poker Open	600 HKD	100,000
Oct 10	20:00	Event #7: Zodiac Shooting Star Bounty	1,050 CNY	388,000
Oct 10	21:00	Event #8: PLO Turbo	400 HKD	100,000
Oct 11	20:00	Event #9: WPT Phillipines Championship	80,000 PHP	10,000,000
Oct 11	21:00	Event #10: Superstack Classic	4,000 HKD	5,000,000
Oct 13	20:00	Event #11: WPT Taiwan Championship	30,000 TWD	3,500,000
Oct 15	20:00	Event #12: Six Max Poker Open	600 HKD	388,000
Oct 17	20:00	Event #13: Zodiac Golden dragon	800 CNY	388,000
Oct 17	21:00	Event #14: PLO Bounty	525 HKD	150,000
Oct 18	20:00	Event #15: WPT Cambodia High Roller Championship	3,500 USD	350,000
Oct 18	21:00	Event #16: WPT Asia Mini Main Event	1,000 HKD	5,000,000
Oct 20	20:00	Event #17: WPT Japan Championship	30,000 JPY	7,500,000
Oct 22	20:00	Event #18: Turbo Poker Open	600 HKD	250,000
Oct 24	20:00	Event #19: Zodiac White Tiger	800 CNY	388,000
Oct 24	21:00	Event #20: PLO Finale	1,000 HKD	200,000
Oct 25	20:00	Event #21: WPT Macau Championship	3,500 HKD	2,000,000
Oct 25	21:00	Event #22: WPT Asia Main Event	10,000 HKD	10,000,000

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