World Poker Tour news
The remainder of the starting flights of the 2013 WPT Montreal Main Event wrapped up over the weekend with 357 players surviving to the beginning of the work week. Topping the field is Sebastien Drolet-Poitras, the chip leader after Day 1A, holding 270,800 chips. As expected, each successive Day 1 flight was larger than the… Read more »
The first Day One of the World Poker Tour’s stop at the Playground Poker Club in Montreal, Canada, is in the books with a local man atop the standings and two former WPT champions hot on his heels. The Playground was open for business on Friday and the players wasted little time in taking to… Read more »
After a weeklong visit from the partypoker Premier League (and a day off for the United States’ version of Thanksgiving), the World Poker Tour will be invading the Playground Poker Club in Montreal, Quebec, Canada this afternoon for the start of the partypoker WPT Montreal. In just a couple of visits to the Playground, the… Read more »
If this was online poker, conspiracy theorists might think something smelled fishy. But this isn’t online, so let’s nip the “poker is rigged” talk in the bud right now. Tony “Bond18” Dunst, the host of the Raw Deal on World Poker Tour (WPT) broadcasts, won his first WPT event Sunday, taking down the WPT Caribbean… Read more »
Jared Jaffee took a huge chip lead into the final table of the World Poker Tour (WPT) bestbet Jacksonville Fall Poker Scramble Main Event Tuesday and went virtually wire-to-wire for as easy a victory as one will see on the Tour. For the win, Jaffee cashed a check for $252,749. It was a breakthrough of… Read more »
Could the final table of the World Poker Tour (WPT) bestbet Jacksonville Fall Poker Scramble Main Event be a race for second place? It is possible, as Jared Jaffee has a sizeable lead on the rest of the field heading into Day 4. With 3,650,000 chips, he has double the chips of his closest competitor.… Read more »
The 123 survivors from the two starting flights of the World Poker Tour (WPT) bestbet Jacksonville Fall Poker Scramble Main Event came together for Day 2 Sunday with paydays on their minds. Just 45 players were to make the money in this tournament; by the end of the day, everyone remaining was guaranteed almost $10,000.… Read more »
Philipp Gruissem is having quite the nice autumn this year. Less than a three weeks after winning the World Poker Tour (WPT) Alpha8 London event, he has now won his second straight Alpha8 title, taking down the St. Kitts tournament last night. The million dollar score marks his third significant cash in the span of… Read more »
The World Poker Tour has two events in action over the weekend, with poker’s high rollers on the island of St. Kitts in the Caribbean and other players taking on the equally challenging tables arranged around bestbet Jacksonville in Florida. WPT Alpha8 St. Kitts Enjoying some fun in the sun of the Caribbean, 23 players… Read more »
Daniel Brits began the final table of the 2013 World Poker Tour (WPT) Emperors Palace Poker Classic Monday a distant second, but he quickly built his stack, took the lead, and cruised through to play heads-up against Eugene Du Plessis. It was a back-and-forth battle, but Brits won the big hands when it counted, eventually… Read more »
The final table is set for the World Poker Tour stop at the Emperors Palace Poker Classic on Monday, with the overall Day One leader back atop the leaderboard and the defending champion (and Day Two chip leader) still in the hunt for a historic repeat. 27 players came to the tables in Johannesburg, South… Read more »
Day Two of the World Poker Tour’s Emperors Palace Poker Classic in Johannesburg, South Africa, is in the books with the potential for history looming on the horizon. When we left the Day Two action earlier today, Eugene du Plessis was holding a slim lead over Bartolome Gomila Romero, but that changed soon afterwards. On… Read more »
The World Poker Tour has taken a trek to South Africa this weekend, wrapping up two Day Ones of action in the WPT Emperors Palace Poker Classic in Johannesburg on Thursday and yesterday. As the action heads into Day Two, the crème of the South African poker community is atop the leaderboard, but a contingent… Read more »
In a stunning comeback, Mohsin Charania overcame a gigantic chip deficit throughout the final table to win the 2013 World Poker Tour (WPT) Grand Prix de Paris Main Event. For his efforts, the Illinois resident known as “chicagocards1” online received $469,477. One of poker’s oldest clichés is “a chip and a chair” and rarely has… Read more »
This is it. We have reached the final table of the 2013 World Poker Tour (WPT) Grand Prix de Paris Main Event at the famed Aviation Club de France. Just six players remain of the original 187 and leading the way is the same player who topped the chip counts going into Day 4, Vasili… Read more »
Just 24 players remain in the 2013 World Poker Tour (WPT) Grand Prix de Paris Main Event as the tournament heads into Day 4 on Tuesday. Leading the very top heavy field in the race to the €340,000 first prize is Belarus’ Vasili Firsau with 756,000 chips. Just how top heavy is the leader board?… Read more »
The World Series of Poker (WSOP) Europe Main Event just ended and the traditional WSOP Main Event final table is just a week away. Serving as the meat in a delicious poker sandwich this fall is the World Poker Tour’s (WPT) Grand Prix de Paris Main Event, hosted by the legendary Aviation Club de France.… Read more »
Last week, we gave you a quick report on the World Poker Tour’s (WPT) release of the 2014 portion of the Season XII schedule. Well, it looks like there is a bit of a problem. The WPT World Championship, the most prestigious live poker tournament outside of the World Series of Poker (WSOP), overlaps with… Read more »
The World Poker Tour (WPT) announced its end-of-season schedule yesterday, a lineup which will feature seven stops in 2014. All seven of the tour stops will be in the United States: two in Atlantic City, two in California, and three in Florida, which is quickly becoming a poker hotbed. The first stop of the new… Read more »
Making their new poker tournaments series a truly international event, the World Poker Tour announced that the inaugural season of WPT Alpha8 – their high stakes tournament poker series – will journey outside of the United States later this month and in early 2014. After making its debut with the WPT Alpha8 Florida event last… Read more »
In an outstanding heads up battle, Anthony Zinno came from the middle of the pack to defeat Vanessa Selbst to take down the championship of the World Poker Tour’s Borgata Poker Open on Friday night. Zinno came to the final table with the audacious task of toppling the two chip leaders, Selbst and overall chip… Read more »
After battling through one of the largest tournaments in the history of the organization, the final six players were determined at the World Poker Tour’s Borgata Poker Open in Atlantic City early on Friday morning. 36 players came to the felt on Thursday afternoon with the task of working down to the WPT six handed… Read more »
The 591 survivors from the first two starting days came together to battle it out on Day 2 of the 2013 World Poker Tour (WPT) Borgata Poker Open Main Event Tuesday and when the chips were bagged and tagged at the end of the night, just 174 players were left standing (or sitting, as the… Read more »
The second starting flight of the 2013 World Poker Tour (WPT) Borgata Poker Open Main Event was completed Monday and, as expected, there was a fantastic turnout. 813 players registered for Day 1B, more than double the number of runners the tournament fielded on Day 1A. Paul Volpe bagged the most chips – 231,850 –… Read more »
The World Poker Tour (WPT) continues its stint in the States this week with the WPT Borgata Poker Open Main Event in Atlantic City. The $3,500 tournament features two starting flights and will run through Friday. Sunday’s Day 1A saw 376 players register and just 166 make it all the way through still holding chips.… Read more »
