On Shawn Cunix’s website, he writes that he is committed to the core purpose of “inspiring happiness.” We think that $400,600 could be quite the inspiration. This is what Cunix won Wednesday for his triumph in the World Poker Tour (WPT) Jacksonville BestBet Open, along with a $25,500 into the [...]
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Shawn Cunix Wins WPT Jacksonville BestBet Open

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WPT Jacksonville BestBet Open Final Table Set, Shawn Cunix Holds Chip Lead

The final table has been set at the World Poker Tour (WPT) Jacksonville BestBet Open as the field was narrowed from 16 to just 6 players on Tuesday. Shawn Cunix will start the final table with a solid chip lead over the rest of the field, holding 2.77 million. That’s more than 600,000 more than [. [...]
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WPT Jacksonville BestBet Open Day 2: Farid Jattin Shoots to the Top

The survivors from Days 1A and 1B of the World Poker Tour (WPT) Jacksonville BestBet Open combined into a single field Sunday, with half of the original 320 players sitting down for the start of Day 2. The field was trimmed almost exactly in half again, with 55 players making the cut for today’s D [...]
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WPT Jacksonville BestBet Open Day 1B: Amine Chabane Leads Day 1B Player, Darren Elias Overall Leader

Players turned out in droves for the second of two Day Ones at the World Poker Tour’s Jacksonville BestBet Open in Florida, pushing the overall entries over the 300 entries mark. With only 125 players on Friday stepping into the brand new BestBet Jacksonville poker room, there was a chance that th [...]
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WPT Jacksonville BestBet Open Day 1A: Darren Elias Takes Lead, Final Numbers Not Determined

The World Poker Tour continues its swing through the state of Florida during the month of April, landing in Jacksonville for the WPT Jacksonville BestBet Open, which kicked off yesterday with the first of two Day Ones. WPT officials decided to make the $5000 buy in tournament a re-entry event, meani [...]
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World Poker Tour Heads To Jacksonville For BestBet Open

The World Poker Tour has reached its next to last event of their Season Ten schedule, heading just up the coast of Florida from their last stop to land in Jacksonville, FL, tomorrow. Starting at noon tomorrow, the inaugural WPT Jacksonville BestBet Open will begin play in their $5000 Main Event. The [...]
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Tommy Vedes Wins WPT Seminole Hard Rock Showdown

The game of poker, especially tournament poker, requires a lot of patience. As much as one might want action, a player can’t just throw out bets willy-nilly and hope to win. It often requires orbit after orbit of waiting for the right moment and the ability to take advantage of that moment to win [...]
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WPT Seminole Hard Rock Showdown Day Five: Joe Serock Takes Massive Chip Lead

It was a relatively short day at the World Poker Tour (WPT) Seminole Hard Rock Showdown on Sunday, as it took less than seven hours to determine the composition of the final table. Sure, seven hours to eliminate nine players may seem like an awful high average time between knockouts, but at this sta [...]
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WPT Boot Camp To Offer Payment Plan For Courses

One of the most popular ways for poker players to improve their skills is through the variety of “poker camps” that are available. Many times, however, these courses can be priced out of a player’s bank account, leading many to bypass the training camps. One of the venerable institutions of th [...]
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WPT Seminole Hard Rock Showdown Day Four: Fifteen Players Remain, Joe Serock Takes Over Lead

Day Four of the World Poker Tour Seminole Hard Rock Showdown is in the books, knocking slightly more than half of the players out who came back for Saturday’s action. 32 players were in their seats in the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino’s arena at noon on Saturday, faced with a task that is [...]
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WPT Seminole Hard Rock Showdown Day Three: William Brown Moves To Lead, John Dolan Maintains Good Run

Play on Day Three of the World Poker Tour stop at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Hollywood, FL, has reached a key moment, whittling the field down to just shy of the money bubble. 102 players stepped up to continue the battle on Friday with Clyde Hinton on the point and a [...] [...]
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WPT Seminole Hard Rock Showdown Day Two: Clyde Hinton Takes The Helm, Tommy Vedes In Pursuit

The World Poker Tour’s Seminole Hard Rock Showdown in Hollywood, FL, has completed its second day of play, with Clyde Hinton holding a slim lead over veteran poker pro Tommy Vedes. With late registration open until the start of action on Thursday, the 209 players who survived from the original 281 [...]
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WPT Seminole Hard Rock Showdown Day One: David Nicholson Takes Lead Over John Dolan

The World Poker Tour has returned to the site of one of its big success stories from last year, the Seminole Hard Rock Showdown on the sunny coast of Hollywood, Florida, where David Nicholson has assumed the pole position over the field. Last year, the tournament – which came shortly after the stu [...]
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Morten Christensen Wins First Major Championship At WPT Vienna

Seemingly in control since he seized the chip lead on Day Two, Denmark’s Morten Christensen emerged Sunday evening as the champion of the World Poker Tour stop in Vienna, Austria. With 69 players, Christensen led the players to the felt on Friday with plenty of challenges facing him. Chris Moorman [...]
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WPT Vienna Day Two: Morten Christiensen Seizes Lead Over Chris Moorman, Tristan Wade

Day Two of the World Poker Tour stop in Vienna, Austria has come to a close with a Danish player atop the heap, although it isn’t one that immediately would come to mind. 179 of the original 396 player field gathered at the Montesino Casino in Vienna to continue the battle for the latest WPT [...] [...]
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WPT Vienna Day 1B: Darko Stojanovic Holds Giant Lead

After a month layoff, the next World Poker Tour (WPT) Main Event kicked off this week at the Montesino Casino in Vienna, Austria. The second of the two Day 1 flights wrapped up Wednesday with Darko Stojanovic holding a massive chip lead over the rest of the field. His 320,000 chips are over 50 perce [...]
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EPT Madrid Day 1B: Juan Navarrete Azon Takes Overall Chip Lead

They said that the second starting day of the European Poker Tour (EPT) Madrid Main Event would be much bigger than the first starting flight, and they were right. With 352 players paying €5,000 + €300 on Tuesday, Day 1B turned out to be almost three times as large as Day 1A, which had just [... [...]
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Amateur Moon Kim Battles To Championship Of WPT Bay 101 Shooting Stars

After battling through one of the longer final tables in WPT history, local player Moon Kim emerged as the champion of the World Poker Tour’s Bay 101 Shooting Stars event. The final six men convened at the Bay 101 Casino in San Jose Friday afternoon, with World Series of Poker bracelet holder Erik [...]
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WPT Bay 101 Shooting Stars Day Three: Erik Cajelais Takes Early Lead, Chip Leader At Final Table

It took only nine hours for the players at the World Poker Tour’s Bay 101 Shooting Stars to determine the final table, with a historic occurrence once the final six were determined. Twenty men returned for battle on Thursday, looking for one of those coveted seats at a WPT final table. Leading the [...]
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WPT Bay 101 Shooting Stars Day Two: Scott Baumstein Leads Final 20, Jonathan Duhamel Continues 2012 Rampage

The World Poker Tour stop in San Jose for the Bay 101 Shooting Stars has proven to be an exciting event after working down to the final twenty players for Thursday’s action. 149 players and 19 of the remaining “Shooting Stars” (the professional players carrying a $5000 bounty on their heads) c [...]
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WPT Bay 101 Shooting Star Day 1B: Christ Summers Pilots Flight, Yockey Retains Overall Lead

Day 1B of the World Poker Tour (WPT) Bay 101 Shooting Star wrapped up late Tuesday night with another 222 players stepping up to the plate and only 96 surviving to fight on Day 2. Leading the way as the proud owner of the both the largest chip stack and the $10,000 bonus that goes [...] [...]
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WPT Bay 101 Shooting Star Day 1A: Bryce Yockey Finishes Strong, Grabs Lead

The next big World Poker Tour event got underway Monday, staying in California this week at the WPT Bay 101 Shooting Star. Held at the Bay 101 Casino in San Jose, California, the tournament is one of the most fun on the Tour, as a number of well-known poker players are designated as “Shooting Star [...]
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World Poker Tour Bay 101 Shooting Stars Starts Monday

After finishing up their latest stop last week in Los Angeles, poker professionals have little time to rest on the World Poker Tour, heading up the coast of California for the start of the next event on the Season X schedule on Monday. The WPT Bay 101 Shooting Stars, one of the more popular events [ [...]
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Sean Jazayeri Defeats The Young Guns In Winning WPT L. A. Poker Classic

After coming to the final table with a slim chip lead, veteran poker player Sean Jazayeri withstood the challenges from the “young guns” of the poker world en route to the championship of the World Poker Tour’s L. A. Poker Classic. When the final table began on Wednesday, Jazayeri held a scant [...]
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WPT L.A. Poker Classic Day 5: Sean Jazayeri Takes Final Table Lead

The final table is upon us at the World Poker Tour (WPT) L.A. Poker Classic, as the field was trimmed from 18 to the final six at the Commerce Casino on Tuesday. Yesterday’s starting chip leader, Noah Schwartz is still alive, and while his 3.835 million chips puts him in a great spot, the chip [.. [...]

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