World Poker Tour news
Local favorite Harry Arutyunyan, who calls the Bicycle Casino his home turf, fought off a difficult final table on his way to defeating Mike Eskandari to take home the World Poker Tour’s Legends of Poker championship early Saturday morning. Coming to the final table, Arutyunyan was in good position with his 3.67 million stack good… Read more »
The first official event of Season XIII of the World Poker Tour has reached its penultimate day as Massoud Eskandari leads the final table at the WPT Legends of Poker at the Bicycle Casino in Los Angeles. 16 men returned to action on Thursday, looking to get down to the official WPT final table of… Read more »
Day 2 of the World Poker Tour (WPT) Legends of Poker Main Event was the first in which the entire field was playing together at the same time. 223 players came out of the three Day 1’s, but only one of the three chips leaders from the starting flights – Tyler Cornell – made it… Read more »
Tyler Cornell ran away with Day 1C of the 2014 World Poker Tour (WPT) Legends of Poker Main Event Monday, finishing the day with nearly 100,000 more chips than his nearest opponent. As is almost always the case in a multi-starting flight event, Day 1C was the largest of the three flights, with 222 entrants… Read more »
The WPT500 was held during the World Series of Poker Main Event, but the “real” World Poker Tour (WPT) started this weekend with the 2014 WPT Legends of Poker at the legendary Bicycle Casino in California. Days 1A and 1B are in the books with 1C currently running; leading a strong field to this point… Read more »
The first Main Event of the new season of the World Poker Tour (WPT) is set to begin this weekend. But Allen “Chainsaw” Kessler, the live tournament min-cash king, is not planning to play in the 2014 WPT Legends of Poker at the Bicycle Casino in L.A. On Tuesday, he announced he will be boycotting… Read more »
The World Poker Tour (WPT) announced last week that it has inked a deal with the Global Poker Index (GPI) which will the see the WPT use the GPI’s ranking system for the Season XIII WPT Player of the Year race. In a press release, WPT President Adam Pliska said, “I applaud Alexandre Dreyfus and… Read more »
Utilizing the chip lead at the final table, the current Global Poker Index Player of the Year leader, Keven Stammen, dominated on his way to capturing the World Poker Tour World Championship at the Borgata in Atlantic City on Saturday night. Stammen, who captured the lead from Byron Kaverman in knocking out television table bubble… Read more »
After a quick seven hour session on Friday, the World Poker Tour World Championship final table has been set. Going to play on Saturday afternoon at the Borgata in Atlantic City Keven Stammen, the current leader of the Global Poker Index Player of the Year race, holds a big chip lead over a talented field… Read more »
The action at the Borgata in Atlantic City has been rapid as the World Poker Tour’s World Championship has worked its way down to the final 18 players. For the last two days, the man at the helm of the field has been Canada’s Eric Afriat, the winner of the previous tournament, the WPT Seminole… Read more »
Day 1B of the 2014 World Poker Tour World Championship came and went at the Borgata in Atlantic City yesterday and good news! No reports of counterfeit chips! As expected, more players turned out for Tuesday’s action than Monday’s: 223 runners versus 105, creating a total field of 328. Jason Koon emerged from the second… Read more »
The beginning of the end has begun. Monday marked Day 1A of the 2014 World Poker Tour (WPT) World Championship, the final tournament of WPT Season XII, one of the most prestigious events on the poker calendar. With a buy-in of $15,000 + $400, it won’t be the largest tournament on the tour, but it… Read more »
After more than six hours of competition, the third shortest stack to start the day, Eric Afriat, completed an unlikely comeback to outduel World Poker Tour Player of the Year leader Mukul Pahuja and take down the WPT Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown late last night. Afriat came to the final table with only 6.76… Read more »
It was a surprisingly long day at the 2014 World Poker Tour (WPT) Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown Main Event on Tuesday, as it took over ten hours to narrow the field from only eighteen to six. But Day 4 did end and the final table has been set with Mukul Pahuja presiding over his… Read more »
The plan for Monday at the 2014 World Poker Tour (WPT) Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown Main Event was to play down to 27 runners, but if time allowed the option to slice off another nine players was an option. It was the latter situation that presented itself last night, so nearly 100 of the… Read more »
Following an exciting three starting flights in which the largest-ever field was seen for a World Poker Tour (WPT) event, Day 2 of the 2014 WPT Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown Main Event took place on Sunday. 673 Day 1 survivors took their seats knowing that it was still going to be a long, hard… Read more »
With a massive outpouring of entries over Friday and Saturday’s action, the World Poker Tour stop at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino for the 2014 WPT Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown has become the largest ever event (by number) in the history of the WPT. As the 673 survivors ready for Day 2… Read more »
The next to last stop for the Season XII schedule on the World Poker Tour kicked off yesterday in the sunny climes of Florida. Day 1A of the WPT Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Hollywood, FL, is in the books with two notable names sitting atop… Read more »
The final table of the 2014 World Poker Tour (WPT) Canadian Spring Championship wrapped up Tuesday and to the great thrill of the crowd in attendance, Quebec local Jason Comtois won the $160,999 first prize. Comtois began final table play as the second shortest stack with 4,700,000 chips, though that said, he was not at… Read more »
Just 33 eliminations were needed on Monday to narrow the field of the 2014 World Poker Tour (WPT) Canadian Spring Championship to the six-handed final table, but it wasn’t the play a few hands and go home affair that many expected. On the contrary, Day 3 lasted nearly nine and a half hours as blinds… Read more »
Three times was the charm this weekend at the 2014 World Poker Tour (WPT) Canadian Spring Championship as the third and final starting flight took place Saturday followed by Day 2 on Sunday. Pierre Guenette emerged as the chip leader of both Day 1C and the overall Day 1 field, one of just three players… Read more »
Although there was a throng of players that came out for Friday’s Day 1B action at the World Poker Tour’s stop in Montreal’s Playground Poker Club, the numbers are potentially coming up a bit short for the stop to make its $1 million guaranteed prize pool. Disregarding that, Simon Quintal ensured that he would take… Read more »
It’s not like they haven’t been busy lately but, since a weekend is approaching, the World Poker Tour has decided it has to have a tournament running! The action this weekend is in Montreal, Canada, at the Playground Poker Club as the WPT National Canadian Spring Poker Championship completed its first of three Day Ones… Read more »
Nabil Hirezi, a Jacksonville local, won the 2014 World Poker Tour (WPT) Jacksonville bestbet Open Main Event yesterday, leading nearly wire-to-wire at the final table. For his efforts, Hirezi takes home a first prize worth $206,041, which includes a $15,400 seat in the WPT World Championship. Hirezi had a sizeable lead going into the final… Read more »
The six-handed final table is set at the 2014 World Poker Tour (WPT) Jacksonville bestbet Open Main Event and with 2,792,000 chips, Nabil Hirezi is in the driver’s seat. As expected, Day 3 was short, lasting only about five and a half hours, as only 13 eliminations were needed to get down to the final… Read more »
