World Poker Tour news
The World Poker Tour (WPT) Bay 101 Shooting Star Main Event made history Tuesday as another 365 players bought into the tournament, bringing the total entries for both starting flights to 635, a new record for the northern California tour stop. The previous record was set during Season IV (we’re in Season XI now), when… Read more »
The World Poker Tour has moved up the Pacific coast of the United States this week for the always fun WPT Bay 101 Shooting Star in San Jose, California. Bay 101 has carved out a niche in the tournament circuit as an event which has a high concentration of “name” players. The reason for this… Read more »
After a week in the entertainment capital of the world (and dodging the Academy Awards, among other events), the World Poker Tour heads to the northern part of California beginning on Monday for the more relaxed, sedate world of San Jose and the Bay 101 Shooting Star. If you believed the part about “relaxed,” then… Read more »
After an extended battle during heads up play, Paul Klann was able to come back to defeat Paul Volpe to win one of the most prestigious events the tournament circuit has to offer, the World Poker Tour’s L. A. Poker Classic. The six men vying for the title were ready for action when the cards… Read more »
As the rest of the players are packing their bags to head to Northern California for the weekend, the final six men are set to play out the final table of the World Poker Tour’s L. A. Poker Classic beginning this afternoon. Coming back to the felt on Thursday were 18 men who had the… Read more »
They’re getting down to the nitty-gritty at the 2013 World Poker Tour (WPT) L.A. Poker Classic, as the field narrowed from 162 to just 63 players Monday. While the pressure will ratchet up a notch for many on Tuesday as the final table is visible on the horizon, others may now feel relaxed, as everyone… Read more »
The 2013 World Poker Tour (WPT) L.A. Poker Classic got going this weekend in bittersweet fashion. While it is always a good time, the opening of the Main Event had a somber tone, as players remembered former Los Angeles Lakers owner and avid poker player, Jerry Buss, who passed away last week after a lengthy… Read more »
The World Poker Tour wrapped up its stop at the Casino Baden in Austria Sunday evening (afternoon in the United States) with Vladimir Bozinovic maintaining his lead throughout the final table on the way to taking down the championship. Bozinovic came to the final table with slightly more than 400,000 chips than two-time WPT champion… Read more »
The final table for the World Poker Tour stop in Baden, Austria, is set, with the potential for another chapter in the eleven year history of the tour to be written. Twenty men came back to the felt at the Casino Baden on Saturday to work their way down to the six handed final table… Read more »
As they wrap up their tournament in Baden, Austria and prepare for the start of their next event, the L. A. Poker Classic, today at the Commerce Casino in California, the World Poker Tour has announced seven more stops on their calendar leading up to the WPT Championship in May. Of those seven events, two… Read more »
The battle for the latest World Poker Tour championship kicked into overdrive on Friday as the money bubble burst today at the stop in Baden, Austria. Only 44 players were remaining at the start of action on Friday, but there would be many long faces in that crowd although they had made it to Day… Read more »
The World Poker Tour is in the middle of the second leg of its European Texas (Hold’em) Two-Step, finishing up Day Two at the Casino Baden in Austria earlier this afternoon (U. S. time). 131 players returned to the felt, joined together for the first time after two separate Day Ones started the tournament on… Read more »
Day 1B of the World Poker Tour (WPT) Baden Main Event watched 150 more players (well, actually 126, since 24 of them re-entered after busting out Tuesday) pull their chairs up to the poker tables at Casino Baden. 77 of them will have chairs to which to return for Thursdays Day 2 as the trek… Read more »
After three events in the United States, the World Poker Tour is back in Europe this week as WPT Baden kicked off Tuesday with the first of two starting flights. It was a fairly small Day 1A as just 104 players paid the €3,300 to participate. Just over half of them – 54 – made… Read more »
Matt Giannetti became the 19th player to win multiple World Poker Tour (WPT) titles Tuesday, taking the crown at the 2013 WPT Lucky Hearts Poker Open Main Event. Giannetti, who was also a member of the 2012 World Series of Poker (WSOP) November Nine, placing fourth in the Main Event, previously won WPT Malta in… Read more »
The World Poker Tour (WPT) Lucky Hearts Poker Open Main Event began Day 3 with 36 players situated around four tables and ended with the skilled and fortunate six who made the final table. Matt Giannetti leads the way heading into Tuesday’s action with just over 3 million chips. Nobody has fewer than 20 big… Read more »
It’s been a quick tournament at the World Poker Tour (WPT) Lucky Hearts Poker Open Main Event in Hollywood, Florida, as the field of 369 players was narrowed to 143 after one day and then further whittled to just 36 after Day 2. Coincidentally, 36 was the cutoff for the money, so everyone returning for… Read more »
With a fierce winter storm pounding the Northeast of the United States, thoughts may drift off to sunnier climes where the waves lap softly against the shoreline. A good deal of the poker community has done better than letting their minds drift, actually putting down stakes in Hollywood, FL, for the World Poker Tour’s Lucky… Read more »
On Friday afternoon, poker professional Andy Hwang handled a bit of adversity at the final table on the way to capturing the World Poker Tour’s Borgata Winter Poker Open championship at the Borgata (naturally) in Atlantic City, NJ. Hwang started the final table with a nearly two million chip lead over Jim Anderson as the… Read more »
The WPT Borgata Winter Poker Open has reached its penultimate day in Atlantic City, playing down to its final table early Friday morning with Andy Hwang in the lead but a former WPT champion lurking among the final six players. Hwang held the lead as the 28 remaining players ventured back into the Borgata to… Read more »
The 567 survivors from Days 1A and 1B of the 2013 World Poker Tour (WPT) Borgata Winter Poker Open Main Event combined on Tuesday for Day 2 and, as expected, the field was trimmed down in a hurry. Just 160 made it to bedtime with chips, led by Scott Herz and Joe DiMartino with 519,300… Read more »
The second starting day of the 2013 World Poker Tour (WPT) Borgata Winter Poker Open was anticipated to be a big one and a big one it was. 645 players shelled out the $3,500 to test their skills in the first WPT Main Event of the year, a sizeable jump from the 397 who showed… Read more »
The first World Poker Tour (WPT) Main Event of 2013 got underway Sunday in Atlantic City, as the WPT Borgata Winter Poker Open saw 397 players pay $3,500 to enter the first of two starting days. Leading the remaining field of 209 runners is Luis Vazquez, who will begin Tuesday’s Day 2 with 182,075 chips.… Read more »
While it is always a good feeling to make the final table of a World Poker Tour (WPT) event, it had to be a little tough for Ravi Raghavan to feel too overjoyed entering play Saturday at the 2012 WPT Doyle Brunson Five Diamond World Poker Classic. After all, he was the short stack and… Read more »
If you’re going to notch the first live tournament win of your career, you might as well go big. That’s exactly what Poland’s Marcin Wydrowski did over the weekend, as he won the 2012 World Poker Tour (WPT) Prague Main Event and over $400,000. Along with the prize money, a windfall compared to the $3,538… Read more »
