The World Poker Tour (WPT) released its Season X television schedule Wednesday, circling February 12th as the jump-off point for the series. The first episode, along with all subsequent episodes, will air at both 8:00pm and 11:00pm local time. The season, which will once again be broadcast on Fox Sp [...]
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WPT Releases Season X Television Schedule

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David Shallow Wins WPT Ireland

David Shallow entered final table play at the World Poker Tour (WPT) Ireland Main Event as the overwhelming chip leader. It is commonplace to see someone with a healthy chip advantage to begin the final day – maybe a couple million chips – but leads like Shallow’s are something to see. Wit [...]
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WPT Adds New Main Event to Season X

The World Poker Tour (WPT) announced Tuesday that it was adding a new Main Event to the current Season X schedule, the WPT Lucky Hearts Poker Open at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel in Hollywood, Florida. The $3,500 buy-in tournament is scheduled for February 10th through February 14th. While the Sem [...]
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Edoardo Alescio Wins WPT Venice

When most people think about their first live tournament cash, they have fond memories of a low buy-in tournament, probably at their local casino, when they were able to just eek out a profit. It’s an exciting time, even if the cash is so tiny that the cost of food and drink that night makes [...]
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WPT Venice Day 1A: Andrea Dato Heads Small Field

If it seems like the World Poker Tour (WPT) has an event every week, it’s because it does. At least this month. During the first week of December, we had WPT Prague, won by Andrey Pateychuk. This weekend, James Dempsey won the WPT Doyle Brunson Five Diamond World Poker Classic at the Bellagi [...]
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James Dempsey Wins 2011 WPT Doyle Brunson Five Diamond World Poker Classic

If you are going to win a World Poker Tour (WPT) event, you might as well do it on a whim. Such was essentially the case for James “Flushy” Dempsey Sunday night, as he won the 2011 WPT Doyle Brunson Five Diamond World Poker Classic. The Brit was not in Las Vegas specifically to play [...] [...]
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WPT Doyle Brunson Five Diamond World Poker Classic Day Five: Stacked Final Table Determined, Soi Nguyen Maintains Chip Lead

The World Poker Tour’s Doyle Brunson Five Diamond World Poker Classic has reached its penultimate moment, determining the six handed final table during play Saturday night. Thirteen players came back on Saturday afternoon to the Bellagio, prepared to work their way down to the traditional six hand [...]
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WPT Doyle Brunson Five Diamond World Poker Classic Day Four: Soi Nguyen Dominates Action, Antonio Esfandiari Still In Hunt For Repeat

The World Poker Tour’s Doyle Brunson Five Diamond World Poker Classic is down to its next to last day, with a former November Niner at the helm and the defending champion still in the hunt for a historic repeat. 49 players started the action on Friday and, with the final table playing on Sunday, w [...]
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WPT Doyle Brunson Five Diamond World Poker Classic Day Three: 49 Players Remain As Antonio Esfandiari Looks To Make History

The World Poker Tour’s Doyle Brunson World Poker Classic chugged along at the Bellagio in Las Vegas Thursday, eliminating almost two thirds of the remaining field during its Day Three action. Starting the day, 149 players came back to the felt from the original 413 players and, in contrast to Wedn [...]
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WPT Doyle Brunson Five Diamond World Poker Classic Day Two: Grant Lang Assumes The Lead, 149 Players Remaining

The final tournament of the 2011 calendar year for the World Poker Tour, the Doyle Brunson Five Diamond World Poker Classic at the Bellagio in Las Vegas, will move on to Day Three play with Grant Lang atop the leaderboard of the 149 players still alive in the tournament. Action kicked off in the pok [...]
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WPT Doyle Brunson Five Diamond World Poker Classic Day 1: Vanessa Selbst is Early Leader

The traditional tenth anniversary gift is tin or aluminum. We don’t know about you, but when talking about the tenth anniversary of the first World Poker Tour (WPT) event, referring to it as a recyclable doesn’t sound quite right. Good thing there are “modern” anniversary gifts. Theref [...]
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Andrey Pateychuk Wins WPT Prague

Andrey Pateychuk probably felt extremely lucky to even be at the World Poker Tour (WPT) Prague final table. This year’s European Poker Tour (EPT) San Remo Main Event champ found himself all-in with A-K late on Day 3, only to see his opponent flop a set of 9’s. The poker gods were with him, t [...]
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WPT Prague Day 3: Stanislaw Kretz Looks Dominant

Day 3 has come and gone at the World Poker Tour (WPT) Prague and we are down to the final table. Entering the day, 62 of the 571 original players still remained, and while it took until the wee hours of the morning, the field was narrowed all the way to just the six players [...] [...]
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WPT Prague: Money Bubble Bursts As Martins Adeniya Seizes The Lead

The money bubble has popped in the historic city of Prague, the Czech Republic, as the World Poker Tour grinds its way along to its final table Monday afternoon. 218 players came back to the felt on Saturday at the Kings Casino in the Corinthian Hotel in Prague and, from appearances, it would be a [ [...]
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WPT Prague: Day Ones Complete As Casey Kastle Leads The Pack

The World Poker Tour is putting the “world” back in its moniker lately, and its latest stop at the Kings Casino at the Corinthian Hotel in Prague, the Czech Republic, has proven to be a huge success. Two Day Ones played out over Thursday and Friday and, by the end of registration on Day 1B [...] [...]
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Mohamed Ali Houssam Wins WPT Marrakech

The final table of the World Poker Tour (WPT) Marrakech stop concluded Sunday as Mohamed Ali Houssam triumphed over fellow Moroccan Toufik Ourini at the Casino De Marrakech. It was both Houssam’s first WPT cash and victory, though he had already found success at this very casino, winning the Mar [...]
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Trio Of Champions Grace WPT Marrakech Final Table

The World Poker Tour stop in Marrakech, Morocco, has proven to be highly popular with the European community. As the event enters into its final day of action, three players known throughout the world have made their mark by making the final table. 274 players stepped to the felt, having put up thei [...]
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Anthony Ruberto Wins WPT Jacksonville

It wasn’t exactly a wire-to-wire victory for Anthony Ruberto, but the final table of the World Poker Tour (WPT) Jacksonville stop was about as comfortable as a final table can be for a champion. The man from Everett, Massachusetts was never in any real danger of being eliminated, starting with t [...]
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WPT Jacksonville Day Three: Final Table Set, Anthony Ruberto with Monster Stack

Like two trains on a collision course on the same stretch of track, the end of the casino day and the 7th place elimination were charging towards each other Tuesday morning at the Jacksonville Poker Room, host of the World Poker Tour’s (WPT) Jacksonville stop. The goal for Day 3 was to whittle t [...]
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WPT Jacksonville Day 2: Vitor Coelho Head and Shoulders Above Field

The survivors from the two separate flights of Day 1 combined into one field on Sunday at the World Poker Tour (WPT) Jacksonville stop, the first WPT event ever held in the northern Florida city. Day 1A saw 88 of 188 players stay alive for today’s Day 2, while 80 made it through Day 1B [...] [...]
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Adrien Allain Wins WPT Amneville

All the attention during the beginning of this week may be on the final table of the World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event, but let’s not forget there are other major tournaments going on all over the world. One of them, the World Poker Tour (WPT) Amneville stop, concluded over the weekend. [...]
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Daniel Santoro Wins WPT Foxwoods Poker Finals

It must be a good feeling to almost double your lifetime earnings in a week. That’s just what New York’s Daniel Santoro did, as he won the World Poker Tour’s (WPT) Foxwoods World Poker Finals in what turned out to be a final table that was a tale of two halves. For the victory, Santoro [.. [...]
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WPT Foxwoods Poker Finals Day 5: Steven Brackesy Takes Lead Going into Televised Final Table

Day 5 of the World Poker Tour’s (WPT) Foxwoods World Poker Finals just goes to show that there are no givens in poker. One hand, one card, and everyone’s predictions can go flying out the window. Going into Monday’s abbreviated day of play, two players were clearly on the ropes, the prohib [...]
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WPT Foxwoods Poker Finals Day 4: Christian Harder Leads with Televised Final Table Just Two Eliminations Away

Day Five of the World Poker Tour’s (WPT) Foxwoods World Poker Finals could turn out to be the shortest day in the history of the Tour. The televised six-handed final table is scheduled for Tuesday, but entering play Monday, there are just eight players remaining. The schedule will not change, [...]
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Andy Frankenberger Seizes Lead At WPT Foxwoods, Jonathan Little In Hunt For Second Foxwoods Championship

As a nor’easter ravages the Atlantic states, the World Poker Tour’s Foxwoods World Poker Finals continues on its merry way in Mashantucket, CT, working down to the 27 players on Saturday who will earn cash in the tournament. The fun and games for Day Three began with 66 players remaining from th [...]

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