World Poker Tour news
The first World Poker Tour Champions Cup post-World Series of Poker is on the line today as the final six players from a field of 1,175 battle it out for the WPT Choctaw title. It is a strong final table with two past Champions Cup winners, with the additional benefit of being potentially history-making. Andy… Read more »
The World Poker Tour (WPT) is back after a two and a half month hiatus with its third stop of Season XIV, WPT Choctaw at Oklahoma’s Choctaw Casino Resort. The Main Event, which began on Friday, July 31st with the first of two starting flights, is a $3,500 + $200 tournament with a $2 million… Read more »
The World Poker Tour (WPT) announced Sunday that it has been acquired by Chinese gaming behemoth Ourgame International Holdings Limited. Ourgame will pay $35 million for the international poker tournament brand. This is not the first time the World Poker Tour has changed ownership. Founded in 2002 (doesn’t it seem like it has been around… Read more »
While its longtime counterpart is drawing a “colossus” amount of attention, the World Poker Tour is attempting to keeps its name in the lights. As the schedule of events plays out for the “other” major poker tour in Las Vegas, the WPT has announced a partial schedule of events for its National, DeepStacks, WPT500 and… Read more »
Part of the beauty of poker is that on any given day, the most amateur of amateurs can beat the best professionals in the world. To those unfamiliar with the game, that may sound ridiculous; how can a “sport” be at all attractive when the least skilled players can win? Well, that is, in fact,… Read more »
Day 1B of the 2015 World Poker Tour Amsterdam Main Event, the first-ever WPT stop in the Dutch capital, saw 194 players belly-up to the tables, creating a total field of 324 when combined with the 130 who played on Monday. Just 97 ended the night with chips and will join the 54 who survived… Read more »
The World Series of Poker may be starting in a couple weeks, but that doesn’t bother the World Poker Tour, as it is stringing together tournament after tournament after tournament. Just days after the WPT World Championship brought Season XIII to a conclusion, the WPT Canadian Spring Championship kicked off Season XIV. And now, just… Read more »
In an outstanding heads up battle to determine the champion, Sheraz Nasir denied Lu Zhang a shot at making history on the World Poker Tour in winning the first stop of Season XIV’s schedule, the partypoker WPT Canadian Spring Championship, on Wednesday night. Trevor Delaney held the lead (and 3.19 million chips) as the cards… Read more »
It was a short Day 3 at the 2015 World Poker Tour Canadian Spring Championship Main Event as the field was narrowed from 45 to just 15 before prime time television started. Three men have separated themselves from the pack: chip leader Samuel Tsehai, who has 1.522 million chips, Sheraz Nasir with 1.207 million, and… Read more »
My fellow Poker News Daily writer, Earl Burton, hit on this yesterday, but man, it is really strange that Season XIV of the World Poker Tour (WPT) has started already considering Season XIII just ended on Friday. Poker is certainly different than other sports with more traditional seasons, so for most poker players, the WPT… Read more »
It seems like it was just yesterday that Season XIII of the World Poker Tour concluded with Asher Conniff winning his first major championship in becoming the WPT World Champion in Atlantic City. Looking at the calendar, it wasn’t just yesterday, it was a couple of days ago, which makes the beginning of Season XIV,… Read more »
Vanquishing three former World Poker Tour champions – including a former WPT and World Series of Poker World Champion – Asher Conniff broke through to earn his first major championship ever in taking down the WPT World Championship at the Borgata in Atlantic City Wednesday night. Conniff was in a good operating position as the… Read more »
There is one more day remaining in Season XIII of the World Poker Tour (WPT) as the WPT World Championship final table has been set. It is a very strong final table, as three of its six members have won World Poker Tour titles previously. Alexander Lakhov leads the way with 4.11 million chips, almost… Read more »
The money bubble burst late in the day Monday as just 23 players remain in the Season XIII World Poker Tour (WPT) World Championship. Today’s goal is to make it all the way down to the final six players. Asher Conniff appears to have the best chance to reach the final table, as he is… Read more »
The much-anticipated 2015 World Poker Tour (WPT) World Championship kicked off this weekend, marking the beginning of the end of WPT Season XIII. High Roller events aside, the WPT Championship is the most expensive tournament of the season with a $15,000 + $400 buy-in. 234 players signed up on Saturday with another five registering late… Read more »
After what has been an exciting Season XIII roster of tournaments, the World Poker Tour is looking to cap off their season with one more bit of excitement for its fans. Beginning this afternoon, the WPT is in Atlantic City, NJ, for the traditional finale of each season, the WPT World Championship. From their inception… Read more »
Maintaining the sizeable chip lead he carried into the final table was going to be difficult, but 22-year old Griffin Paul managed to maneuver well through his opposition, eventually defeating Joe Ebanks for the championship of the World Poker Tour’s Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown. Paul came to the final table with nearly a four… Read more »
It was a relatively quick day at the 2015 World Poker Tour (WPT) Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown Main Event as the remaining field of eighteen was trimmed to just six. Action still lasted nearly seven hours, but for a major tournament, that’s not bad at all. Thus, the final table has been set and… Read more »
Day 3 of the World Poker Tour (WPT) Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown Main Event is in the books and just two tables of nine players each remain from an original starting field of 1,476. A cool million dollars is the ultimate goal as today is the day we will find out who makes the… Read more »
It was carnage on Day 2 of the World Poker Tour (WPT) Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown as the field of 554 that entered the day was slashed to just 92 players as the tournament got another day closer to the final table. Raj Vohra emerged as the chip leader, bagging 1.675 million chips Sunday… Read more »
The World Poker Tour’s Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown in Hollywood, FL, didn’t fail to meet expectations with their final Day One on Saturday. After another lengthy day of play, Paul Balzano emerged as the chip leader but was unable to knock Day 1A chip leader Barry Hutter from his perch as the overall leader… Read more »
It was going to be difficult for the players amassed in Florida for Day 1B of the World Poker Tour’s Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown in Hollywood to meet the numbers of the previous day. Although the Day 1B runners wouldn’t crack the 502 entries that Day 1A generated, they still put their mark on… Read more »
After a sizeable outpouring of entries for the first day of a tournament, longtime grinder Barry Hutter has emerged as the leader of Day 1A of the World Poker Tour’s Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown in Hollywood, FL. Under the format of the tournament (which will also be used on the two other Day Ones… Read more »
Adding on to what is going to be a hectic schedule over the next month, the World Poker Tour has announced what will be their first stop for their Season XIV schedule. Beginning on May 1, the WPT will head to what has become one of its most popular destinations, the Playground Poker Club in… Read more »
It wasn’t quite the historic moment we were waiting for, but the final table of the 2015 World Poker Tour (WPT) Rolling Thunder Main Event was pretty great, nonetheless. After nearly 150 hands and about eight hours, Ravee Mathi Sundar had his name engraved on the WPT Champions Cup as the latest WPT winner. For… Read more »
