The Mutua Madrid Open tennis tournament will be held in virtual format on the internet. Will the World Series of Poker 2020 also online?

The situation generated by the Covid-19 in the United States fuels the rumors of a cancellation of the most important festival of poker tournaments of the year, the World Series of Poker 2020. The appointment, which was scheduled to start in late May and was going to last almost 2 months where more than a hundred bracelets were to be distributed, it could only be played on the internet.

Remember that for two seasons online tournaments have already been included in the official program of the WSOP. However, this time it would be a matter of moving all the events to their online format.

The operator best positioned to host what could be the largest online poker festival in history is 888poker, which has had a strategic alliance with the WSOP for 7 seasons. In any case, there are still many questions that the idea generates, since for example, in regulated markets such as Spain, tournaments could not be offered for registration prices as high as those that make up the official program of the World Series of Poker.

In any case, no one would be surprised if this event could be played on the internet. At least taking into account how the world of sports is also turning to the idea of ??replicating its events in virtual format. In this context, the organization of the Mutua Madrid Open of tennis has just announced that Rafa Nadal will participate in a parallel video game competition that under the name of Mutua Madrid Open Virtual Pro will be held from April 27 to 30 and where the champion of last year In the women's category, Kiki Bertens and No. 1 of Spanish tennis Rafael Nadal would participate as head of the series of the tournament.

This would be the first online tennis tournament played by professional players. “I think it is a fun initiative for a great cause. I will miss playing in Madrid this year, since I love the tournament, but I will do my best to compete from the sofa at home, "said Nadal, who this time will try to take the title virtually.

To date, there are eight confirmed players: Rafael Nadal, Andy Murray, John Isner, Lucas Pouille, Kiki Bertens, Angelique Kerber, Carla Suárez and Fiona Ferro.

But back to the WSOP, the announcement that occurred just a few hours ago, stating that GGPoker and the World Series of Poker Circuit (WSOPC) will be working together to offer a brand new online poker event called 'WSOP Super Circuit Online Series 'that will be played in a highly expanding poker network in recent years - thanks mainly to traffic from Asian markets - (the GGPoker network). We still do not know if these series will be the only formula for this transfer of WSOP events to the online channel, but from what is announced on the GG Poker website, the series of events will consist of hundreds of individual poker tournaments, in which It will bring into play a coveted official World Series of Poker bracelet for at least the winners of 18 main events.