A New Partypoker Tour Will Be on the Road in 2025
PartyPoker is returning to the live game arena with five tour events planned for 2025.
The cameras will roll once again in 2025 as PartyPoker has announced it is back in the tour business. © PartyPoker on Flickr
Key Facts:
- Online poker room PartyPoker will resume live events with a five-stop 2025 tour.
- The first festival event will be in April at Aspers Casino in London.
- The PartyPoker Tour Main Event entry set at £500.
- Players remain in the dark about rival Unibet Poker Tour.
“Live events are back” was the message from PartyPoker when the online poker room announced it would return to the live game arena with five festivals planned for 2025. Once the largest online card room in the world, PartyPoker last staged a brick-and-mortar event in November 2023.
Unlike previous poker festivals organised by the famous poker site, the new poker series – labelled ‘The PartyPoker Tour’ – is geared towards mid and low-stakes players. With £500 Main Events and £150 Mini-Main Events, PartyPoker has described its return to land-based card rooms as “a celebration of our poker community.”
London, Manchester, Glasgow and More to Come
Aspers Casino in London is the chosen venue for the first PartyPoker Tour leg of 2025. Action will start on April 19 and run until April 27. Remarkably, despite 121 ‘PartyPoker Live’ events staged over seven seasons since 2016, a PartyPoker tournament has never been played in the British capital.
Manchester will also be unknown territory for PartyPoker. The city’s Manchester 235 Casino will host the second leg of the new tour between June 17 and June 22. Glasgow will then stage the third 2025 PartyPoker Tour leg within the Alea Casino on The Quay during mid-August.
Dates and venues for the remaining two PartyPoker Tour legs are yet to be confirmed. The brand, a sister of PartyCasinos, has been a regular Dublin visitor over the years. It would be a surprise if one of its two remaining 2025 stops were not in the vibrant Irish city.
20p Online Qualification Offers Fun and Perks
PartyPoker, ranked as one of the best poker sites in the UK, has declared it is “sending at least 200 players to London” for its first tour event of 2025 event via ongoing online satellite qualifiers. Round 1 of qualification costs just 20 pence. Round 4, the final stage of direct qualification buy-in, asks for a £25 entry.
A leaderboard with a top prize worth up to £5,000 in 2026 Party Poker Tour event entries will be in place for the 2025 series. The poker site also promises exclusive merchandise and giveaways. Furthermore, all the action will be streamed live on PartyPoker TV and YouTube.
Is the Unibet Open Closed?
The return of live events backed by a major online poker site will please many European players. In addition to PartyPoker’s live event absence in 2024, Unibet Casino noticeably wound down activities at its UnibetPoker room during the year, and it never staged a Unibet Open tournament during 2024.
The Unibet Open tour dates back to 2007. Since then, its Main Event has awarded 60 individuals a six-figure payday. Unsurprisingly, Unibet had described its flagship Unibet Open tournament events – which visited all parts of Europe – as “the hottest live poker tournament circuit in Europe”.
With the Unibet Poker X account (formerly Twitter) without a post since August 2024 and the official Unibet Open website not updated since December 2023, it would seem unlikely the once hugely popular tour will resurface anytime soon.
