The 2021 WPT World Online Championships returns to partypoker from August 12 to September 15, with more top-quality tournaments!
The popular WPT Pro Hunt event shall kick off the festival with a bang! Cards will fly in the air in this exciting tournament on Friday, August 13 at 19:05 BST.
WPT Pro Hunt Event
A part of the 2021 WPT World Online Championships (August to September)
A $33 buy-in No-Limit Hold'em tournament, the WPT Pro Hunt is where some of the biggest names in poker and poker streaming attend the virtual felt with a special bounty on their heads. If you managed to bust one of these players, you get a $109 WPT World Online Championship Main Event Day 1A Phase 3 ticket, giving you the chance to qualify for the $5,300 WPTWOC Main Event, which features a $5 million guaranteed prize pool!
The one who becomes the 2021 WPT Pro Hunt champion not only pads their bankroll with a substantial score but also obtain a free $5,300 WPTWOC Main Event Day 1A seat and a specially-designed trophy to commemorate their achievement.
Playing in this event not only gives you lots of fun but it also helps raise money for a good cause. About 20% of the prize pool shall be donated to the Poker Gives charity.
WPT Pro Hunt - Special Bounties
Enter the virtual arena and go up against luminaries such as Isaac Haxton, Joni Jouhkimainen, Joao Simao and Patrick Leonard, and watch the action as it unfolds on Jaime and Matt Staples' Twitch channels. Jeffrey "MaximusBlack" Johnson will be taking over the official partypokerTV channel, so be sure to tune in there as well.
- Buochi Grill
- Courtney Gee
- Cristian Stival
- Day Kotoviezy
- Isaac Haxton
- Joni Jouhkimainen
- Jaime Staples
- Jeffrey "MaximusBlack" Johnson
- Louise Butler
- Matt Staples
- Monika Zukowicz
- Patrick Leonard
- Santi Gonzalez
WPT Pro Hunt Event - Back in 2020
Last year's WPT Pro Hunt was a $33 buy-in PKO tournament with a 30,000 guaranteed prize pool. A total of 1,788 players entered before late registration closed. The crowd resulted in a $53,640 prize pool, plus over 6,000 worth of added prizes in the form of bounties and a Main Event seat.
The reigning WPT Pro Hunt Champion is Brazilian Douglas Souza, who won last year's event, and he did it while streaming live on partypoker's Brazilian Twitch channel!
Souza defeated Ukraine's Ihor Mochalov heads-up when his pocket fives won a coinflip against A-Q. Souza took home $3,285 from the main prize pool, $2,463 worth of bounties, and a $5,300 seat in the Main Event.
Hop in and who knows, you may very well be the next champ this 2021!
Source: https://www.partypoker.com/blog/en/popular-wpt-pro-hunt-event-returns-to-partypoker-august-13.html
