World Poker Tour news
The first major live poker tournament post-World Series of Poker is well underway now as the World Poker Tour (WPT) Choctaw Main Event has completed Day 2. 330 players entered Sunday’s action from the two Day 1 flights and just 40 remain as Monday’s Day 3 looms. Randi Lister holds court as the chip leader,… Read more »
The two Day Ones for the World Poker Tour’s Season XV stop at the Choctaw Casino Resort in Oklahoma are in the books. Coming through the larger of the two, Michael Hahn ended Day 1B with a sizeable chip stack of 370,000 chips to pace the field heading to Sunday’s Day 2 action. With more… Read more »
The World Poker Tour announced Monday an initiative that sounds like it came straight out of a decade ago: a poker education site called LearnWPT.com. LearnWPT.com is trying to differentiate itself from other poker training sites by “focusing on clarity of instruction,” which makes sense. The sites that have been/were around during the last decade… Read more »
On Monday, the World Poker Tour (WPT) released the full schedule for WPT Season XV which, even though the WPT Tournament of Champions just ended, is already underway. Seth Davies won the partypoker.net Canadian Spring Championship to open the season and Andjelko Andrejevic followed that up with a win at WPT Amsterdam. In all, there… Read more »
Season XIV of the World Poker Tour (WPT) wrapped up Sunday after a busy couple weeks at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Hollywood, Florida. With three major WPT events – the WPT Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown, the WPT Seminole Hard Rock Poker Finale, and the WPT Tournament of Champions – strung… Read more »
The first-ever final table for the Monster World Poker Tour Tournament of Champions has been set after a day of play on Saturday and it has six men that are well-qualified to be sitting in the seats. Atop the leaderboard when action resumes this afternoon is Jonathan Jaffe, but he’ll be facing some heat from… Read more »
After two tournaments that were quite popular with the tournament professionals, the World Poker Tour rolled the dice with their end-of-season event. The Monster WPT Tournament of Champions – the replacement for the WPT World Championship – started on Friday and, from first look, the change was not as successful as WPT officials might have… Read more »
Etching his name into the history books, David ‘Chino’ Rheem became only the fourth player in World Poker Tour history to take down three WPT championships (following Gus Hansen, Carlos Mortensen and Anthony Zinno) when he was able to defeat Aditya Prasetyo in heads up play to win the WPT Seminole Hard Rock Poker Finale… Read more »
After the oddity of beginning the day with a 10-handed final table, Justin Young exorcised the demons of an earlier World Poker Tour final table loss in defeating Garrett Greer to emerge victorious in the WPT Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown in Hollywood, FL, last night. Instead of having the official six-handed WPT final table… Read more »
The second of the three big World Poker Tour events at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Hollywood, Florida will wrap up tomorrow as the WPT Seminole Hard Rock Poker Finale has reached its final table. Though the six-handed final table was determined on Tuesday, the players have the day off on Wednesday… Read more »
With three overlapping World Poker Tour (WPT) events being held this week at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Hollywood, Florida, it can be hard to keep track of what exactly is going on. Right now, the focus is on the $10,000 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Finale, which completed Day 2 on Monday… Read more »
A decade ago, heck, even just a few years ago, did anyone ever think that the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Hollywood, Florida would at any point be the center of the poker world? Not Las Vegas, not Atlantic City, not even Hollywood, California, but Hollywood, Florida? That’s not to say that the… Read more »
The final events of the Season XIV schedule for the World Poker Tour are underway in Hollywood, FL, as the WPT Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown opened its doors for Day 1 action on Friday. After the spinning turnstiles quit rotating, a previously unknown Steven Hensley emerged as the leader of a sizeable pack of… Read more »
The World Poker Tour (WPT) Season XIV is coming to an end, but with that end comes the beginning of a tweak to the way major tournaments might be run in the future. Today, famed tournament director Matt Savage announced via Twitter that the season-concluding WPT Tournament of Champions will institute a “shot clock,” limiting… Read more »
As the date approaches for the first rendition of this version of the World Poker Tour’s Tournament of Champions, the tour officially announced on Tuesday that more prizes had been added to the awards that will be handed out in the event. Monster, the official headphones and speakers of the WPT, announced that they would… Read more »
In what proved to be a highly entertaining final table, Romania’s Vlad Darie defeated start-of-day chip lead Zoltan Gal to take down the World Poker Tour Vienna title on Sunday afternoon (U. S. time). When the six men gathered at the Montesino Wien in Vienna on Sunday, they were the survivors from the 215 unique… Read more »
Picking off the second leg of poker’s Triple Crown, Harrison Gimbel overcame an epic battle against Mohsin Charania – himself looking for his third World Poker Tour title – to emerge victorious at the WPT Rolling Thunder on Wednesday night. The final table of the WPT Rolling Thunder was one of the strong tables in… Read more »
The 2016 World Poker Tour (WPT) Rolling Thunder Main Event reached its final table last night; just six players remain from the original field of 409. Russell Garrett goes into the final table as the chip leader with 3.686 million chips, followed closely by Harrison Gimbel, who has 3.315 million. The leader going into both… Read more »
The World Poker Tour (WPT) Rolling Thunder Main Event is moving right along – Day 2 of the tournament was completed Monday night and there are just two days left to go. Once again, Ankush Mandavia has the chip lead and is set up to threaten the final table once again, just days after finishing… Read more »
Day 1B of the World Poker Tour (WPT) Rolling Thunder Main Event is in the books at the Thunder Valley Casino Resort, as another 175 players bellied up to the tables to try to make a run to become a member of the WPT Champion’s Club. Ankush Mandavia, who just finished 23rd at the WPT… Read more »
There was certainly no rest for the staff of the World Poker Tour nor the players on the circuit as, immediately following the conclusion of the WPT Bay 101 Shooting Star in San Jose, the trucks, cars and helicopters headed to Sacramento for the final stop of the WPT’s California Swing. Day 1A of the… Read more »
Playing more hands in heads up competition than it took at the final table to reach that point, Stefan Schillhabel staved off the assault of a powerful Adam Geyer to take down the World Poker Tour Bay 101 Shooting Star championship last night in San Jose. Schillhabel had stormed to the lead during Thursday’s play,… Read more »
The final table has been determined for the 2016 World Poker Tour’s Bay 101 Shooting Star event in San Jose, CA and only one Shooting Star, poker professional/announcer Maria Ho, remains with their bounty intact. To say the Day 3 field was a competitive one would be a huge understatement. Dylan Linde brought the 36… Read more »
There are several happy souls in northern California as the sun breaks on Thursday morning, some because they received a cash in the 2016 World Poker Tour Bay 101 Shooting Star tournament in San Jose. The others are among the survivors who are sleeping peacefully as they know they will come back later in the… Read more »
The second starting flight of the World Poker Tour (WPT) Bay 101 Shooting Star Main Event was held Tuesday as 422 more players gave the tournament a whirl. The resulting overall field of 753 is the largest in the tournament’s history. A total of 292 players remaining from both starting flights, led by Ari Engel… Read more »
