The Portomaso Casino announced it has reached an agreement with the world’s number one online poker operator, pokerstars, to host a series of top international events. The first event, the IPT (Italian Poker Tour), is to be held in November and is expected to attract hundreds of top international poker players to measure their skills in Malta over 10 days of intense competition.

Other significant appointments for 2011 will be scheduled and announced soon.

Gianfranco Scordato, general manager at the casino, confirmed this news and added: “This agreement finally puts Malta and the Portomaso Casino on the calendar of the most important circuit in Europe.”

Malta is becoming more and more a key location for quality poker events, well known within the international landscape.