First Tournament For The Canada Poker Tournament League

The first tournament for the Canada Poker Tournament League (CPTL) will start on the first of October 2009. It will be held in the Maritime Provinces. For their first season, total prizes will be $500,000 in cash besides prizes like trips to the World Series of Poker (WSOP) in Las Vegas.

The Quebec Poker Tournament League (QCPTL) was launched October 2007 in the province of Quebec. This league has more than 25,000 members and already had more then 250 events. This league was born from a partnership between the Corporation des Propriétaires de Bars, Brasseries et Tavernes du Québec (CPBBTQ), l'Association des Joueurs de Tournois de Poker du Québec (AJTPQ) and Gestion Poker Tour.

Gestion Poker is a company organizing poker events in the province of Quebec.

The QCPTL is a totally free poker tournament league. Anyone, aged over 18, do have a chance to enjoy themselves at poker play while learning the basics of the game. Doing such result for those with proper skills to get very good earnings.

The QCPTL has a policy to give out at least $250,000 in prizes, even as early as the first year.

The QCPTL has a network all over the provice of Quebec in more then 125 districts. Those establishments bring a lot of Hold'Em Poker players.
Lots of tournaments are possible. Ranging from daily, monthly, mega, celebrity, venue and more types of tournaments. There are also championships.
As an example, the Quebec Poker Championship is to grab the title of Quebec’s Champion. The winner will get all expenses paid entry for a major tournament throughout the world. Many other prizes are available for the other players.
Thus Gestion Poker Tour will launch a legal and highly competitive free poker circuit in October 2009 in each of the Canadian Maritime Provinces.

Players can already enjoy such events in Caraquet, St-Leornard, Tracadie-Sheila, Kedgwick and soon, Edmundston.

The medias are invited to be part of the official launch tour of the provincial leagues in the Maritimes. This tour will be part of the CNPTL (Canada Poker Tournament League).

Information sessions, for the venues, will be held in the morning at 10:30am while information sessions, for the players, will be held at 1pm.

Those prosent at the launch will include France Lajoie, Pierre Martel and André Boyer. The latest one being holder of a prestigious WSOP bracelet. All those people will be there to meet you and to answer any of your questions.

A random selection of 10 people, including those amongst the medias, in the afternoon will take place. The winners will play a tournament where the main winner will face the world champion, André Boyer, in a heads-up match. That lucky winner will also receive as prize an unique poker table with accessories.

The cities and dates where those different sessions will be played are:
- August 18th, Bathurst
- August 19th, Moncton
- August 20th, Charlottetown
- August 21st, St-John's
- August 24th, Halifax

Feel free to check the QCPTL website for more informations.

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