March 10, 2020 will be a day that poker players remember for all the wrong reasons. Three major live poker festivals, WPT Barcelona, the 2020 Irish Open, and Winamax’s Grand Final were all postponed due to the ongoing COVID-19 crisis.
WPT Exploring Possibility of Holding Barcelona Festival Later in the Year
The COVID-19 coronavirus continues to spread throughout Spain and this is the main reason the World Poker Tour took the decision to postpone the upcoming WPT Barcelona festival.
WPT issued a statement on the Casino Barcelona website that reads:
Following extensive discussions on the Coronavirus, Casino Barcelona and its partners the World Poker Tour and partypoker LIVE have together reluctantly taken the decision to postpone the upcoming WPT Barcelona festival which was due to take place March 27th – April 5th.