World Poker Tour news
Riding a tremendous rush that extended over the final two days of the tournament, Bobby Oboodi captured the championship early Saturday morning of the World Poker Tour’s latest stop at the Borgata Poker Open in Atlantic City, NJ. Coming to the final table on Friday afternoon, Oboodi held a slim 60,000 chip lead over veteran… Read more »
The only two players who have broached the ten million chip mark in the event – Bobby Oboodi and Fred Goldberg – will be in prime position to take down the World Poker Tour stop at the Borgata Poker Open in Atlantic City when the final table plays out this evening. When play was at… Read more »
The 2011 World Poker Tour Borgata Poker Open’s Day 4 play is underway, with the most recent champion on the WPT, Legends of Poker winner Will “The Thrill” Failla, looking to make history by winning back to back WPT events. At the start of play today, Failla was the only player over the three million… Read more »
Day 2 of the 2011 World Poker Tour (WPT) Borgata Poker Open is in the books and with just 170 players of the original 1,313 remaining, the money bubble is starting to appear on the horizon. The top 100 finishers in the $3,300 + $200 will be paid at least $8,386, with the winner receiving… Read more »
We said yesterday that there was a chance that the 2011 World Poker Tour (WPT) Borgata Poker Open could break last year’s mark for the largest WPT event in history. “Reasonable shot” was the phrase we used. It looks like we didn’t have to sweat it at all, as the 1,313 total entries handily beat… Read more »
The 2011 World Poker Tour (WPT) Borgata Poker Open got underway Sunday with the first of two Day 1 flights and it looks like there is a chance that the tournament could be a record breaker. Last year’s event was the largest in WPT history, as 1,042 players combined to create a prize pool of… Read more »
On Saturday, Parkland, Florida’s Matt Waxman accomplished something no American had ever been able to do before: he became the first American to win the World Poker Tour (WPT) Grand Prix de Paris. One of just two Yanks to reach the final table and one of just five to cash at the venerable Aviation Club… Read more »
We poker players know that poker is a game of skill. But we also know that to win a big tournament, Lady Luck needs to be on your side from time to time, as well. Such was the case for Will “The Thrill” Failla, who came into the 2011 World Poker Tour (WTP) Legends of… Read more »
Today is the day that every player on the World Poker Tour (WPT) wants to reach: the televised final table. Just six players were able to hit that goal when play stopped early Tuesday morning at the WPT Legends of Poker at the legendary Bicycle Casino, having outlasted 751 other players since Thursday. Going into… Read more »
The World Poker Tour’s (WPT) Legends of Poker is rounding the final turn, about to hit the home stretch. After Day 3 of competition at The Bicycle Casino in Bell Gardens, California, just 21 players remain out of the 757 that began play. With $758,085 on the line for first place and the current payout… Read more »
With the first North American stop of the new season as a backdrop, World Poker Tour (WPT) officials announced new tour stops and new features for Season X of the ever-popular poker tournament series. The season started in May with the WPT Spanish Championship, held at the Casino Barcelona, followed by WPT Spanish Slovenia in… Read more »
The vast changes made to the broadcast of the World Poker Tour during its ninth season are apparently paying off. According to a WPT press release this week, FSN’s coverage of the popular program has increased in ratings by 35 percent over last season, with an average number of weekly viewers at 669,000. The WPT… Read more »
Erik Seidel may have taken the spotlight away from Scott Seiver at the World Poker Tour Championship on Friday. But the 26-year-old poker phenom has 1.6 million reasons not to care. Seiver earned his first World Poker Tour title and $1,618,344 for his victory in the $25,000 WPT Championship at Bellagio in Las Vegas. The… Read more »
He’s done it again. Well, almost. Erik Seidel is one elimination away from winning yet another High Roller title in 2011. The man who’s already accrued more than $4.3 million in earnings this year will play Erick Lindgren for $1,092,780 and the World Poker Tour $100,000 buy-in Super High Roller crown on Friday afternoon at… Read more »
It’s a very surreal setting in the Bellagio poker room. We have star-studded pros like Erik Seidel and Daniel Negreanu seated in the high-limit room in the rear of the casino’s poker room vying for millions of dollars. Meanwhile, Read more »
Galen Hall is one day away from what could be his second seven-figure score of 2011. Not bad for a kid who considers himself a part-time player. The 24-year old Stanford student who won the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA) Main Event in January for $2.3 million is the chip leader of the $25,000 World Poker… Read more »
It was moving day Tuesday at the World Poker Tour (WPT) World Championship, as the money bubble was finally burst and the field inched ever closer to the final table. Galen Hall will be the chip leader when play resumes Wednesday, sitting with a stack of 3,438,000 chips, well ahead of Sam El Sayed, the… Read more »
More than tripling his chip stack from the start of the day, Abe Mosseri ended Day 2 of the 2011 World Poker Tour (WPT) World Championship as the chip leader with 685,200 chips, as the field was slowly whittled away. With 116 of the original 220 players remaining, there is still a long way to… Read more »
Day 1 of the $25,000 World Poker Tour (WPT) World Poker Championship got underway on Saturday with 188 players taking to the tables at Bellagio in Las Vegas. Christian “charder30” Harder sat atop the leaderboard at the end of five levels of play, with Ali Eslami, Kyle “KJulius10” Julius, Justin Young and Doyle Brunson all… Read more »
The final stop of Season IX on the World Poker Tour will kick off on Saturday with the $25,000 WPT World Poker Championship at Bellagio in Las Vegas. The tour’s flagship event begins at noon local time today and runs through Friday, May 20, where a final table of six players will commence at 4… Read more »
It was not quite the smooth ride that he probably would have liked, but Taylor Von Kriegenbergh got the result he wanted just the same, winning the World Poker Tour (WPT) Seminole Hard Rock Showdown Monday night. For his efforts, the recent college grad won $1,122,340, a $25,500 entry into the WPT World Championship, a… Read more »
The penultimate day of the World Poker Tour (WPT) Seminole Hard Rock Showdown came to a close Sunday with just the final six players remaining, setting up Monday’s television final table. Leading the way is Taylor Von Kriegenbergh, who used a gigantic late push to finish the day with a chip stack double that of… Read more »
He’s only 24 years old, but Blair Hinkle has already accomplished more than most poker players dream of. In his brief career as a pro, Hinkle has captured a World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelet, a WSOP circuit ring, and a handful of major online wins, including a $1.1 million score in the FTOPS XIX… Read more »
After three days of play, the Seminole Hard Rock Showdown, a stop on the World Poker Tour (WPT), has seen its starting group of 433 whittled all the way down to 51. Taylor von Kriegenbergh is the pacesetter with 1.08 million in chips, just ahead of the mound of 1.02 million that belongs to Abbey… Read more »
A total of 147 players remain in the running for the million-dollar top prize at the Seminole Hard Rock Showdown, the first ever stop in Florida for the World Poker Tour (WPT). Former WPT Legends of Poker final tablist Todd Terry leads the way with two days of play in the books and will come… Read more »
