World Poker Tour news
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 »
Like its compatriot in Europe, the World Poker Tour Doyle Brunson Five Diamond World Poker Classic is also working its way to a final table, with an impressive run once again by Antonio Esfandiari dominating the storyline. Esfandiari came into Friday’s Day Four play with a sizeable chip lead over Freddy Deeb, but 60 others… Read more »
The World Poker Tour stop at the Kings Casino in Prague, the Czech Republic, is headed into its home stretch after Day Three action yesterday. Sitting atop the leaderboard as the next to last day is set to begin this morning in Europe is Tony Chang, but a host of players are looking to take… Read more »
While their compatriots in Europe slumbered after their Day Two battles, the World Poker Tour’s second leg of its international “two step,” the Doyle Brunson Five Diamond World Poker Classic at the Bellagio in Las Vegas, continued its fight. By the end of Thursday’s play, a familiar name in former champion Antonio Esfandiari was atop… Read more »
The World Poker Tour has its engines in full throat, with two tournaments in action in the United States and the Czech Republic. For the European version of the WPT’s “two-step,” Day Two has come to a close in Prague with Marco Lang at the helm of the field. Three Day Ones built a formidable… Read more »
The second starting flight of three wrapped up last night at the 2012 World Poker Tour (WPT) Prague Main Event with 179 more players ponying up €3,300 to participate. The total for entries now sits at 294, still a ways off from the 571 that entered the inaugural WPT Prague last year. 90 players made… Read more »
The second-ever running of the World Poker Tour (WPT) Prague Main Event began Monday as 115 players put up €3,300 for the first of three starting flights. Finland’s Pasi Heinanen finished Day 1A as the chip leader, just 2,000 ahead of Shannon Shorr. WPT Prague debuted on the tour at this same time last year… Read more »
In a stunning surprise over larger stacked opponents, Italy’s Giacomo Fundaro came from the middle of the six player final table to take down the championship of the World Poker Tour’s stop at the Mazagan Beach and Golf Resort in Casablanca, Morocco, last night. This particular final table had something for everyone. If you wanted… Read more »
The final table is set for the World Poker Tour’s latest stop at the Mazagan Beach and Golf Resort in Casablanca, Morocco, with poker Triple Crown winner Davidi Kitai sitting atop the final six for today’s action. 25 players returned from the original 146 player field for Friday’s Day Three play with an impressive array… Read more »
The second starting flight of the World Poker Tour (WPT) Mazagan Main Event is in the books and with 166,800 chips, France’s Clement Beauvois stood alone not just as the day’s chip leader, but also as the overall chip leader heading into Day 2. Some stops on the World Poker Tour, despite being genuine, full-fledged… Read more »
With so many World Poker Tour (WPT) events played in the United States and Europe, it only seems right that a Canadian should win WPT Montreal. And that’s exactly what happened Tuesday night as Quebec’s Jonathan Roy leapfrogged the two chip leaders during the course of the final table to take his first major title… Read more »
The stops on the World Poker Tour (WPT) are coming fast and furious nowadays. As WPT Montreal is concluding in North America, WPT Mazagan is starting up across the ocean in Africa. The coastal city of El Jadida, Morocco (formerly known as Mazagan) is serving as host to this event, held at the Mazagan Beach… Read more »
Day 3 of the World Poker Tour (WPT) Montreal Main Event began with just 45 players – five tables-worth – remaining and when the night was wrapped, the final six players had been determined. It looks like it is going to be a tight race to the finish, as the two chip leaders, Sylvain Siebert… Read more »
After both starting flights of the World Poker Tour (WPT) Montreal Main Event ended with 360 players still in the running, we said that “the money bubble may burst” Sunday. Apparently, there was no need for that “may” hedge. Eliminations were fast and furious on Day 2 at the Playground Poker Club as more than… Read more »
The World Poker Tour has made its triumphant return to Canada with its stop at the Playground Poker Club in Montreal and the players have certainly made the stop noteworthy, even in the WPT’s eleventh year. The 478 players who flooded the floor of the Playground Poker Club on Friday for Day 1A all but… Read more »
As they head into their final few events on the 2012 calendar, the World Poker Tour has landed in Montreal, Quebec, and the Playground Poker Club to battle it out for the latest WPT championship. Making its first visit back to Canada since 2008, the WPT looks to have chosen the right venue and the… Read more »
Though the World Poker Tour (WPT) is an international tour, the events in the United States seem to get more attention than their ‘round-the-world brethren. Case in point: while Noah Schwartz drew the eyes of the tournament poker world last week in winning the 2012 WPT bestbet Jacksonville Fall Poker Scramble, WPT Copenhagen across the… Read more »
If it seemed like an inevitability going into the final table that Noah Schwartz would win the World Poker Tour (WPT) bestbet Jacksonville Fall Poker Scramble Main Event, it’s because it was. Schwartz entered final table play Tuesday with close to half the chips in play and cruised into the heads-up portion of the match.… Read more »
Despite only needing 22 eliminations to get through the day, Day 3 of the World Poker Tour (WPT) bestbet Jacksonville Fall Poker Scramble Main Event was a long one, lasting over 14 hours. The six-handed final table was determined, though, and Noah Schwartz will take a gigantic chip lead into Tuesday’s play. With 6.255 million… Read more »
It was a big day at the World Poker Tour (WPT) bestbet Jacksonville Fall Poker Scramble Main Event, as 81 percent of the field that started the day on Sunday was sent packing. In the meantime, the money bubble burst when the 46th and 47th place finishers busted just as the tournament was about to… Read more »
The latest stop for the World Poker Tour brings the circuit to Jacksonville, FL, for the BestBet Jacksonville Fall Poker Scramble and the players have turned out in droves for the two Day Ones completed yesterday and Friday. On Friday, the tournament kicked off with its unique entry format. The $3500 tournament featured a same… Read more »
The World Poker Tour (WPT) revealed the 2013 portion of its schedule for Season XI yesterday, presenting nine tour stops in three countries. The year kicks off with an old favorite, the WPT Borgata Winter Open, and ends, as usual, with the WPT World Championship. The Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa has had a rough… Read more »
Concluding their first ever stop in South Africa, Germany’s Dominik Nitsche, to put it bluntly, dominated the field to win the World Poker Tour’s Emperors Palace Poker Classic in Johannesburg this morning (East Coast time). The tournament, which started on Monday, drew a respectable field of 230 players and Nitsche was in a position of… Read more »
