World Poker Tour news
Two starting flights and Day 2 are all in the books at the World Poker Tour (WPT) Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown Championship in Hollywood, Florida and just 101 players remain out of the original 1,869 entries. Leading the way heading into Day 3 is Josh Reichard, who holds 3.1 million chips. Though Reichard is… Read more »
Harkening back to its origins over two decades ago, the World Poker Tour returned to the high seas this week. The WPT Voyage Championship, held aboard Virgin Voyages Valiant Lady, wrapped up its play on Thursday after 293 combatants had been whittled down to the final nine. In the end, it was Aram Oganyan who… Read more »
Fresh off the WPT Rolling Thunder Main Event, the World Poker Tour has announced the schedule for the second half of the 2024 season and it truly puts the “World” in World Poker Tour. “The first half of Season XXII has been outstanding,” said WPT CEO Adam Pliska in last week’s reveal. “Looking ahead to… Read more »
Yesterday, I said I would be shocked if Yunkyu Song didn’t win the 2024 World Poker Tour (WPT) Rolling Thunder Main Event, so…consider me shocked. Song went into the six-handed final table with three-fifths of the chips in play, looking like he would roll to victory. But poker is a funny thing; it takes just… Read more »
The final table of the World Poker Tour (WPT) Rolling Thunder Main Event is set and, like yesterday, it is Yunkyu Song sitting pretty as the chip leader. And boy, is he sitting pretty. Song has 13.525 million chips going into the six-handed final table. The other five players have 9.375 million…COMBINED. Heck, only two… Read more »
Konstantin Held won the inaugural WPT Cambodia championship on Monday, claiming the top prize of $361,310. It was the first Main Tour stop outside of North America since back in 2017. Nagaworld Integrated Resort had previously held WPT Prime events, but this was the first time for a full-fledged WPT Main Tour event in Cambodia.… Read more »
It was simultaneously a thrilling and stunning close to the 2023 WPT World Championship. In one of the most combative final tables of the year, Dan Sepiol came from the short stack to capture the title in the $40 million guaranteed event. Along with the hefty payday that was the largest of his career, Sepiol… Read more »
The 2023 World Poker Tour World Championship festivities are coming to an end, but that doesn’t mean that there hasn’t been a great deal of action around Wynn Las Vegas. The $1 million buy-in Big One for OneDrop concluded on Wednesday night, with four men extremely happy to have stuck around for it. While that… Read more »
It’s on to the penultimate day of the 2023 WPT World Championship, as just 16 players remain in the quest for the $5,678,000 first prize. Most players are in at least halfway decent shape heading into Day 6, but the man with the top stack is Ben Jacobs with 46.400 million chips. Two other players,… Read more »
It looks to be an exciting race to the final table at the 2023 WPT World Championship as the top of the leaderboard is tight going into Day 5. Leading the 45 remaining players is Mark Mounsey with 18.725 million chips. There are a handful of players not far behind Mounsey: Maxime Chilaud with 17.900… Read more »
After the sigh of relief from many of the players after the money bubble burst at the end of Day 2 of the WPT World Championship, it was on to Sunday’s Day 3 to begin focusing on driving deeper into the payouts. The day began with 480 players and ended with 132; Naj Ajez is… Read more »
It was a battle throughout the Day Two festivities at the 2023 WPT World Championship on Saturday, but it was well worth it – for at least 480 people. It wasn’t until the final hand of the night that the money bubble was popped and, with that, those 480 fortunate souls will come back on… Read more »
It was a rather audacious target to set, but they darn near hit it. The World Poker Tour’s WPT World Championship held its Day 1D action on Friday and, despite the best efforts of the WPT, Wynn Las Vegas, and the players, they came up short of their $40 million guarantee. Unlike some other entities,… Read more »
The World Poker Tour is enjoying its stay at Wynn Las Vegas this month. After a plethora of events that shattered guarantees, the WPT has reached its pinnacle tournament, the 2023 WPT World Championship, and is through the first two of four flights. One of its preliminary tournaments, the WPT Prime Championship, has reached its… Read more »
The most anticipated poker tournament of the year outside of the World Series of Poker Main Event is upon us. The WPT World Championship began Tuesday with the first of four Day 1 flights and after Day 1A, Jeff Hakim is the chip leader with 998,000 chips. Two players are close behind: Adekunle Olonoh with… Read more »
It was a chance for a hugely overlooked part of the poker community to shine and, when given the chance, the women of poker put on a great show. Friday night at the World Poker Tour World Championship festivities, the WPT Ladies’ Championship took center stage (and streaming rights) as the season-ending schedule for the… Read more »
The World Poker Tour held its penultimate stop of the 2023 tournament poker season last night, the final table of the 2023 WPT Seminole Rock n’ Roll Poker Open Main Event in Hollywood, FL. In what was a brisk 100-plus hands, Istvan Briski emerged victorious over Rayan Chamas to claim his first major championship. In… Read more »
Just six players remain in the WPT Seminole Rock ‘N’ Roll Poker Open Main Event, with the winner to be determined Wednesday afternoon. Enjoying a substantial chip lead is Istvan Briski, whose 23.975 million chips are more than double those of his closest competitor. But while Briski has the chips, a few other players have… Read more »
In today’s poker world, it is not unusual for players to have to make decisions regarding what tournaments they want to take part in. Rare is it, however, that the tournaments in question are of such luminous status that people will make note of who is going where. That’s what we’re looking at when it… Read more »
Frederic Normand parlayed a $580 satellite win into a World Poker Tour title as he won the WPT bestbet Scramble in Jacksonville, Florida on Tuesday for what was easily the biggest cash of his career. The $351,650 first prize was about double his previous career best. That previous best came in what was a bittersweet… Read more »
As the poker world gears up for the upcoming WPT World Championship to finish out the year, there are still a couple stops on the World Poker Tour schedule to finish. The first, WPT bestbet Scramble, wraps up today at bestbet Jacksonville. The six-handed final table is just getting underway as the players compete for… Read more »
Two weeks of live streams The World Poker Tour has announced the live streaming schedule for the upcoming WPT World Championship. Starting December 7, viewers will get 14 days of streams, the first half of which are mostly cash games, with the back end leaning heavily on the headline WPT World Championship tournament. “We developed… Read more »
Main Tour The World Poker Tour has announced the first half of its Season XXII schedule, comprised of four Main Tour stops and seven WPT Prime stops. Seasons used to overlap calendar years, but the WPT finally changed this last year – perhaps nudged in this direction by the COVID-19 pandemic – now keeping each… Read more »
Quite some time ago – in fact, it was one of the first articles I ever wrote as a poker journalist – I talked about how the current tournament poker world was beginning to encroach on itself. At that time, the World Poker Tour and the World Series of Poker were beginning to square off… Read more »
If you are listing the important moments in the history of poker, the development of the World Poker Tour would have to be a part of that list. Founded back in 2002 by Steve Lipscomb and backed by billionaire entrepreneur Lyle Berman, the WPT has gone on over the last twenty years to become one… Read more »
