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Two new tournaments added to the 2011 World Poker Tour calendar, which become the stops of this season tour. Along with the launch of WPT championships, he makes three new European tournaments WPT brand in the next year.

These two tournaments will be located in foremost European cities, and they are probable to be televised on Fox Sports Net. The First tournament will be held at the Casino de Venezia in early February which has a €3,000 + €300 buy-in,  while another will be turn to Austria in March at the Montesino which carry a similar €3,200 + €300 buy-in.

Both stops will also feature high-roller events with buy-ins that are noticeably larger than those of the televised events. The Venice high-roller tournament has a €10,000 buy-in, while the Vienna stop reportedly features a €15,000 high-roller contest.

According to a press release issued by World Poker Tour President Adam Pilska, the WPT is excited about the new additions to their tour.

“We are looking forward to returning to Venice, debuting our WPT National Series and High-Roller event in Paris, and taking the Tour to Vienna for the very first time,” said Pliska. “The future is exciting and these international events give players even more chances to compete on poker’s premiere stage.”

The National Series is the European equivalent to the Regional Series that the WPT will be holding in the United States. In both cases, the events will carry World Poker Tour branding, but will not award points toward the WPT Player of the Year race, and winners will not receive free entries into the $25,000 WPT World Championship.

The next World Poker Tour event in this period is not a televised event in Marrakech this weekend. The “Five Diamond World Poker Classic”, next televised event held at the beginning of the Bellagio in Las Vegas on December 3.

With every new event that advertise whether it’s in prize amount or number of players entering, Online poker tournaments continue to grow in size. It’s become just as popular as any land based poker tournament and can give any Vegas Poker event a run for its money. Just to prove a point just look at the online poker room managed by Intertops Poker. By Announcing their Global Gaming Event Poker Tournament, which will added some of the biggest money in online poker tourney that never held before in the online gaming industry.

Intertops will hold a series of 7 poker tournaments titled the Online Forum Challenge Mega Money Event over a four month period and will be adding over $23,000 in cash and prizes making it the largest overall GGE series since it started hosting these massive added prize pool tournaments.

Poker Tournaments that were worth anything decent in the past could only be found at big land based casinos where there was a big entry fee and specific days and times in which you had to show up in person to play. Now granted some of these tournaments are worth millions of dollars, but you need to travel to get to them and pay for all your own expenses because these tournaments can go on for more than one day and it could get expensive.

But in current times, you can find yourself entered into some huge “online” poker tournaments that are also worth millions of dollars and can be done right from your living room chair. No travel expenses, no food or lodging expense, just you and your pc, maybe a beer or two and probably the TV set playing in the background is all you need to enter an online big money poker tournament. With online poker becoming such a popular way to get your poker fixes now, land based casinos are going to have to step up their game and start offering better deals and bigger prizes if they want to stay competitive in the future with online brands like Intertops.