The 2020 World Poker Tour Gardens Poker Championship is one of three WPT delayed final tables that are now set to play down to a winner more than a year after the final six players were initially decided.
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The 2020 WPT Gardens Poker Championship is now scheduled for Mar. 10, 2021. That means that the champion will be decided 422 days after the final six players bagged up their chips back on Jan. 13, 2020. The players were originally only meant to wait 11 weeks before playing down to a winner. Recent Galfond Challenge participant and two-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner Chance Kornuth is the chip leader among the final six players.
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Event |
Final Table Date |
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2020 WPT Gardens Poker Championship |
Mar. 10, 2021 |
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2020 WPT Borgata Winter Poker Open |
May 16, 2021 |
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2020 WPT L.A. Poker Classic |
May 17, 2021 |
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2021 WPT SHR Poker Showdown |
May 18, 2021 |
The entity wants to make sure that not only the casino partner casino is ready to go, but also that they can assure player safety and staff safety.
The players won’t have those travel restrictions at that time. But get everybody to those final tables and do it in a safe manner still a challenge due to the changing environment in air transportation industry.
All the players that made the final tables in question have been paid out sixth-place money.
The change in venue for these final tables may be the result of a change in the ownership of the WPT which took place in January. The tour was sold by Allied Esports, which owns the HyperX Esports Arena, to Element Partners, LLC for a reported $78,250,000.
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