In recent years, the World Poker Tour\’s tournaments not held in North America were not televised. This will change for next season\’s tournaments, starting with the Grand Prix de Paris at the Aviation Club de France in May, as Matchroom Sport will be producing European WPT events for worldwide television distribution. Matchroom will be looking to add to their success television poker events such as \”The Big Game\”, \”Durrrr Million Dollar Challenge\”, \”Party Poker World Poker Open\”, among other made-for-TV events.
The Season 9 schedule has not been released, but two tournaments in Europe have already been announced, the Spanish Championship in Barcelona May 13th and D\’Amneville in France in November.
