World Poker Tour Enterprises will be bringing the event to the African continent for the first time in history, thanks to a three year deal signed with top online poker site, ChiliPoker.com. The WPT event, scheduled to launch in October, will take place in the world renowned Casino de Marrakech, home to the Marrakech Poker Open.

Bwin, which partnered with the World Poker Tour this year, will bring the Main Event of this prestigious tournament to Venice in Italy.

The World Poker Tour tournament, Festa al Lago, currently being played out at the Bellagio is drawing to a close. The starting field of 368 has been narrowed down to six. The total prize pool for the event is $5,354,400. The winner will get $1,411,015 and the top fifty will cash.

The face-lift of the Fontana Room in the Bellagio, Las Vegas, having been completed, the World Poker Tour (WPT) has returned there with the Festa al Lago event, which will run till the 26th of October.

The North American stop of the World Poker Tour are currently on at the Fallsview Casino Resort in Ontario. The event has a buy-in of 10,300 Canadian Dollars and 454 players are vying for the prize pool of over 4.4 million Canadian Dollars and a first prize of 1,25 million Canadian Dollars.