World Poker Tour adds WPT Korea to 2024 Event Schedule

After a successful run in Korea last July 2023, the World Poker Tour is set to return to Jeju Island, South Korea.

The WPT Korea 2024 will run for 10 days from March 25 to April 3 at Landing Casino, Jeju Shinhwa World.

The Championship Event guarantees $1.5 Million for a buy-in of $2000. Qualifying events are available via WPTGlobal.com.

WPT Korea will start with a $30,000 buy-in Super High Roller event on March 25 and will end with another High Roller event with a buy-in of $15,000 on April 2.

"We continue to expand ways that poker players around the world can play World Poker Tour events," said WPT CEO Adam Pliska.

"After a very successful WPT Korea stop in 2023, we made it a priority to return in 2024 and are looking forward to an even bigger turnout."

Tao Yin from China proved to be the last man standing in the WPT Korea 2023 Main Event and brought home $229,370. The Main Event had 758 entries and went beyond its guarantee accumulating a total prize pool of $1,700,000.

Side Events for the WPT Korea include Big Bounty NLH, Mystery Bounty, WPT Opener, NLH Deepstack and Jeju Dragon Quest.

WPT Global is an online poker platform that brings the experience of the world-famous World Poker Tour brand to an online setting, providing real money poker games in a variety of formats and a range of levels. Players from over 100 countries can access WPT Global.

WPT Global is the home of online satellites to WPT main events and also offers qualification to WPT Prime main events and the WPT Voyage.

New players can use the WPT Global Poker Promo Code WIRED when registering to get up to $1200 welcome bonus.