The Star Gold Coast makes final preparations for the largest and most prestigious poker festival it has ever hosted. From September 14th to 27th the World Poker Tour will take place in the city 2023 WPT Australia Festival.
While this isn’t The Star Gold Coast’s first WPT rodeo, it’s certainly the biggest, thanks to a Main Tour Main Event spanning over a year Buy-in from AUD8,000 ($5,185).. A WPT tournament of this magnitude is sure to attract some of Australia’s best players and countless more from afar.
Such luminaries are Sean Ragozini, Yita Choong, Alex Lynskey, Jarrod Thatcher, Joshua McCullyand the high stakes guru Michael Addamo All hail from Down Under and would love to be WPT champions on home soil.
Other exciting events are the Shane Warne One Day Perpetual Trophy worth A$880 charity tournament, a Opening event valued at A$1,500a No-Limit Hold’em Action Watch worth $5,000 tournament, a Mystery Bounty worth A$2,650 affair, one Super High Roller worth A$20,000and a Warm-up for the WPT World Championship worth A$10,000 Event.
Schedule of the WPT Australia
Date
Time
Event
Buy in (AUD)
Thu 14 Sept
10:30 am
Main Event Step 1 Satellite
$255
2.30
Opening Event Day 1A
$1,500
6:30 p.m
Main Event Milestone Direct Qualifier
$1,075
19:30 o’clock
Satellite of the opening event
$340
Fri 15 Sep
10:30 am
Main Event Step 1 Satellite
$255
11:30 a.m
NLH Turbo Freezeout
$565
2.30
Opening Event Day 1B
$1,500
6:30 p.m
Main Event Milestone Direct Qualifier
$1,075
19:30 o’clock
Mystery Bounty satellite
$315
Sat 16 Sep
10:30 am
Main Event Step 1 Satellite
$255
11:30 a.m
Opening event day 2
12:30 pm
8 Max Action Clock Day 1
$5,000
2.30
Mystery Bounty Day 1A
$1,650
19:30 o’clock
Mystery Bounty satellite
$315
8:30 p.m
Main Event Milestone Direct Qualifier
$1,075
Sun, Sept 17
10:30 am
Main Event Step 1 Satellite
$255
11:30 a.m
Last day of the opening event
12:15 p.m
8 Max Action Clock Day 2
12:30 pm
Mystery Bounty Day 1B
$1,650
8:30 p.m
Main Event Milestone Direct Qualifier
$1,075
Monday 18 September
10:30 am
Main Event Step 1 Satellite
$255
11:30 a.m
Mystery bounty day 2
2.30
Outback Survivor Bounty Day 1
$1,150
19:30 o’clock
Australian Women’s Satellite Championship
$130
8:30 p.m
Main Event Milestone Direct Qualifier
$1,075
Tue 19 Sept
10:30 am
Main Event Step 1 Satellite
$255
11:30 a.m
Outback Survivor Bounty Day 2
1:30 p.m
Day 1 of the Australian Women’s Championship
$660
2.30
PLO Action Clock Day 1
$675
8:30 p.m
Main Event Milestone Direct Qualifier
$1,075
Wed 20 Sept
10:30 am
Main Event Step 1 Satellite
$255
11:15 a.m
Day 2 of the Australian Women’s Championship
11:30 a.m
PLO Action Clock Day 2
2.30
Bonza bounty day 1
$880
19:30 o’clock
Main Event Milestone Direct Qualifier
$1,075
8:30 p.m
Super High Roller Satellite
$2,575
Thu 21 Sept
10:30 am
Main Event Step 1 Satellite
$255
11:30 a.m
Bonza bounty day 2
12:23 p.m
Shane Warne One Day Perpetual Trophy Charity Event
$880
11:15 p.m
Super high roller day 1
$20,000
19:30 o’clock
Main Event Milestone Direct Qualifier
$1,075
Thu 22 Sept
10:30 am
Main Event Step 1 Satellite
$255
11:30 a.m
Main Event Day 1A
$8,000
12:30 pm
Super high roller day 2
17:30
Main Event Milestone Direct Qualifier
$1,075
19:30 o’clock
Main Event Milestone Direct Qualifier
$1,075
Friday 23 September
11:30 a.m
Main Event Day 1B
$8,000
8:30 p.m
Mini Main Event Milestone Satellites
$450
Sat 24 Sep
11:30 a.m
Main event day 2
2.30
Mini Main Event Day 1
$2,000
8:30 p.m
$10,000 World Cup Warm Up Satellite
$1,075
Sun, Sept 25
11:30 a.m
Main event day 3
2.30
Mini Main Event Day 2
3:30 p.m
$10,000 World Cup Warm-up Day 1
$10,000
9:30 p.m
WP World Championship Road to Vegas Satellite
$260
Monday, September 26th
11:30 a.m
Main event day 4
12:30 pm
$10,000 World Cup Warm-Up Day 2
2.30
WPT World Championship Road to Vegas Day 1
$1,100
3:30 p.m
$5,000 High Roller PLO Day 1
$5,000
Tue 27 Sept
11:30 p.m
Last day of the main event
11:45 a.m
WPT World Championship Road to Vegas Day 2
12:30 pm
$5K High Roller PLO Day 2
1:30 p.m
$675 Final One Day Event Freezeout
$675
The Star Gold Coast hosted the WPT Australia Festival in late 2019 and proved to be a popular World Poker Tour stop. The WPT Australia Main Event 2019 had a buy-in of A$2,500, which was funded by 658 players and created a prize pool of A$1,480,500 ($996,212).
Varma Day was crowned Main Event Champion for AUD$274,247 ($184,537) for his efforts.
The WPTDeepStacks The tour made its home on the Star Gold Coast in May 2021 and the A$1,500 Main Event drew a massive crowd of 1,113. British grinder William Davis emerged victorious, turning his initial investment into AUD$252,731 ($195,718).
Star Gold Coast managed a hat-trick at the World Poker Tour in June 2022 while hosting the WPT Prime Gold Coast Series. Yanglei took the lead against 896 entrants to take the A$201,755 ($141,413) top prize in the A$1,500 Main Event.
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The main WPT returned to the Star Gold Coast in September 2022, increasing the Main Event buy-in to AUD$5,400. Approximately 710 players attended, although the buy-in was double that of the previous edition. All of the additional prize money resulted in a top prize of AUD$647,470 ($429,077). David Tang collected.
Most recently, the AUD$2,000 WPT Prime Gold Coast Main Event took place in March 2023 Sheng Ye He won AUD$374,953 ($253,264) after battling through a crowd of 1,223 opponents.
Given the apparent popularity of live poker in Australia, the fact that the recent World Series of Poker in Las Vegas broke multiple attendance records and the Star Gold Coast is hosting dozens of satellites to the 2023 WPT Australian Main Event, there is every indication that this Tournament worth 8,000 AUD worth nothing is about to be huge. Stay tuned PokerNews to find out if that’s the case.
