World Poker Tour news
In an excellent display of power poker, chip leader Amir Babakhani dominated the final table to take down the victory at the World Poker Tour Canadian Spring Championship at the Playground Poker Club in Montreal, Quebec, last night. Babakhani came into the final table with over 6.6 million chips, amassing that stack by being the… Read more »
It’s down to the penultimate day of the 2013 World Poker Tour Canadian Spring Championship at the Playground Poker Club in Montreal, with the final six players set to square off this afternoon to determine the last title on the WPT circuit before they head to the WPT Championship next week. 2013 World Series of… Read more »
Things are getting serious at the 2013 World Poker Tour (WPT) Canadian Spring Championship. Day 3, contrary to our prediction, was a fairly short one for a major tournament, lasting only seven hours before the requisite 26 players were culled to narrow the field to two tables. At the end of the day, two names… Read more »
The survivors from the three starting flights got together for the unified Day 2 Monday at the World Poker Tour (WPT) Canadian Spring Championship. The field was culled significantly, as just 44 players remain out of the 294 that started the day. That also means the money bubble burst; Tyler Reiman was knocked out in… Read more »
Day 1C of the 2013 World Poker Tour (WPT) Canadian Spring Championship finished up Sunday, thus completing the three starting flights of the second WPT stop in Montreal. Jonathan Driscoll came away as the day’s chip leader, finishing the night with 263,800 chips. Just two other players – Jonathan Roy (218,400 chips) and Jake Toole… Read more »
As expected, Day 1B of the World Poker Tour’s stop at the Playground Poker Club in Montreal, Quebec, drew a massive number of players for action as they try to put themselves in position to take down the last event on the Season XI WPT schedule prior to the WPT Championship later this month. The… Read more »
The cards are in the air for the World Poker Tour stop at the Playground Poker Club in Montreal, Quebec, with players positioning themselves for a run at a championship that has quickly become one of the most hotly contested on the WPT circuit. WPT announcer and Poker Hall of Famer Mike Sexton was on… Read more »
For a while, it looked like the final table of the 2013 World Poker Tour (WPT) bestbet Open Main Event final table would be a quick one, as four of the six players were eliminated within 68 hands. But it took over 100 more hands to get through the heads-up portion of the tournament before… Read more »
Day 3 of the World Poker Tour (WPT) bestbet Open Main Event started with just 25 players remaining. So, needing just 19 eliminations to reach the six-handed final table, it seemed like Monday would be a fairly short day. It wasn’t. It took about twelve hours to get the field whittled down to final table… Read more »
In tournament poker, there are chip leaders and then there are chip leaders. At the World Poker Tour (WPT) bestbet Open Main Event, David Diaz was the italicized latter on Sunday. Upon the close of Day 2, he held a monstrous lead on his 24 opponents, holding 1.705 million chips at night’s end. Let’s use… Read more »
The second starting flight of the World Poker Tour (WPT) bestbet Open Main Event concluded Saturday (Sunday morning, to be exact) and, as expected the field was bigger than that of Day 1A. 205 entrants paid the $3,500 to participate, bringing the total field to 351. Prevailing over the 85 survivors from Day 1B was… Read more »
Kicking off their next to last event prior to the WPT Championship next month, the World Poker Tour has settled into Jacksonville, FL, for the bestbet Jacksonville Open, what has become a popular stop on the circuit schedule not only for the players but also for the WPT staff also. The $3500 buy in tournament… Read more »
Kevin Eyster led the World Poker Tour Seminole Hard Rock Showdown after Day 3. He led after Day 4. And aside from a few minutes, he led Day 5 all the way through, winning his first World Poker Tour title and $660,395. Eyster, going by the screen name “1SickDisease” (and variants) is a highly respected… Read more »
It was final table or bust Monday at the World Poker Tour (WPT) Seminole Hard Rock Showdown as the last 21 players in the field looked to make Tuesday’s six-handed final table. It took about nine and a half hours to find 15 eliminations, but the final table was finally set with Louisiana’s Kevin Eyster… Read more »
Day 4 was a fairly short one at the 2013 World Poker Tour Barcelona Main Event; it took only about five hours to whittle the field from thirteen players to the final table of six. Leading the charge is Canada’s Chanracy Khun with 2.393 million chips as the final table looms on Wednesday. The chip… Read more »
The 2013 World Poker Tour (WPT) Barcelona Main Event ground down to just two tables Monday as the Day 3 starting field of 42 was narrowed to just 13. Spain’s Sergio Fernandez has a sizable lead going into Tuesday’s action; with 1.268 million chips, he has more than a 400,000 chip advantage on the next… Read more »
Day Two of the World Poker Tour stop at the Casino Barcelona in Spain is in the books with a chance at history looming if Sunday’s action continues its course. 148 players came back on Sunday, with local player Sergio Fernandez holding a 37,000 chip lead over Ognjen Sekularac. Day 1A chip leader Manuel Bevand… Read more »
The World Poker Tour stop at the Casino Barcelona in Spain has finished off its second Day One, with a Spaniard storming through the Day 1B field to take the overall chip lead in the event. As expected for the second Day One, there was a rush to get in on the action for this… Read more »
While most of the attention of the poker world is centered on the autumnal climes of Australia (remember, the Southern Hemisphere is opposite the Northern), the springtime urges of some poker players are being satisfied by the World Poker Tour’s venture to the Casino Barcelona in Spain. Day 1A of the WPT Barcelona brought out… Read more »
Stunning the audience in attendance at the Casino di Venezi Ca Vendramin Calergi, Rocco Palumbo fought back from the bottom of the standings to win the World Poker Tour’s Venice Grand Prix Saturday night. Although there were plenty of home country favorites for the Italians to cheer for (chip leader Marcello Montagner, Erion Islamay and… Read more »
The final table is set for the World Poker Tour’s Venice Grand Prix, with several surprises that unfolded as the Day Four play determined those six players. At the start of play on Friday, Erion Islamay was at the top of an eighteen player field that saw a host of top pros looking to take… Read more »
It was a slow day of action for Day 3 of the World Poker Tour’s stop at the Casino di Venezia Ca Vendramin Calergi in Venice, Italy, yesterday. How slow was it? After rocketing through two thirds of the survivors on Day Two, only half of the 36 remaining players were eliminated over the span… Read more »
The World Poker Tour has taken to Europe for the next couple of weeks with its first stop in Venice, Italy, taking center stage this week. The rather cozy field of 173 entrants has worked its way through Day Two on Wednesday with France’s Ludovic Lacay moving into the lead as play gets ready to… Read more »
The World Poker Tour (WPT) Venice Grand Prix continued Tuesday as another set of players took their shot at glory in the second of two starting flights. As is usually the case, the field on Day 1B was larger than that of Day 1A, as 108 registered for play, compared to just 65 runners on… Read more »
The World Poker Tour got back to it yesterday as the first of two starting flights of the WPT Venice Grand Prix kicked off at Casino di Venezia Ca Vendramin Calergi in Venice, Italy. As expected, it was a small field, with just 65 players paying the €3,300 to play in the single re-entry event.… Read more »
