Springtime is on the rise and, as the winter cold thaws, the action on WPT Global is just warming up. Fittingly, the WPT Global Warm Up Festival kicks off this month, running from April 19 to 28. The Warm Up Festival will run as a lead-in to the upcoming Spring Festival - the first of the quarterly Major Series on the site.
Event highlights
The Warm Up Festival offers players standard tournaments and bounty/PKO events in both the No-Limit Hold'em and Short Deck variants.
There are 17 starting flights - one for each day of the series before Day 2 on the 28th - for the $300,000 GTD $220 Championship event.
The $22 Mini Championship holds an $80,000 guarantee and offers players 14 starting flights to choose from.
The standard Sunday trio will blend into the Warm Up Festival, including:
- $110 Sunday Slam - $90,000 Guarantee
- $330 Grand Slam - $60,000 Guarantee
- $11 Mini Slam - $13,500 Guarantee
Additionally, the series' final weekend brings the $200,000 GTD $2,100 High Roller PKO and the $100,000 GTD Crazy Sunday $110 PKO.
Extra perks for event winners
There are a number of added benefits that event winners can take advantage of. The Double Your Buy-in perk will see any event winner earn double the event's buy-in in Spring Festival tickets - win a $55 event, earn $110 in tickets.
Each Warm Up Festival winner earns a spot in a post-festival freeroll event to determine the Champion of Champions. The first-place finisher of the freeroll, the ultimate victor, will win a $12,400 WPT Global Spring Festival package, while second and third place finishers earn over $1,000 in Spring Festival tickets.
The Final Table Bonus sees any player that makes a final table earn a spot in the post-series Second Chance freeroll event. Win that and you get all of your festival buy-ins back (up to $5,000, at least $1,000). Second and third place finishers will take home $500 in Spring Festival tickets.
All Warm Up Festival cashes earn points that count towards the $250,000 Player of the Year race, which sees the winner take home $100,000 in cash and prizes, including entry to four different WPT Main Tour Championships in 2025.
