World Poker Tour news
With registration open until the start of Day 2, the first ever Florida stop for the World Poker Tour (WPT) kicked off on Wednesday and attracted 406 players. The Seminole Hard Rock Showdown in Hollywood, a $10,000 buy-in tournament, features poker pro Randy Dorfman on top after one day of play with a stack of… Read more »
It took 182 hands for Cincinnati resident Mike Scarborough to take down the title at the Hollywood Poker Open, a stop on the World Poker Tour (WPT), on Wednesday night. The path to victory was far from easy, as Scarborough tangled with poker’s all-time money leader, Erik Seidel, heads-up. In the end, the Full Tilt… Read more »
Nine players took to the felts of the World Poker Tour’s (WPT) Hollywood Poker Open on Tuesday to play down to a final table of six. After the short day, William Reynolds leads a rock solid final table into battle with a stack of 1.17 million. The action resumes this afternoon at 4:00pm ET from… Read more »
Nine players remain in the Hollywood Poker Open, a stop on the World Poker Tour (WPT). Play on Monday was scheduled to last until 10 runners remained, but a double elimination occurred on the final set of hands to trim the field to nine and set up what should be a very abbreviated play down… Read more »
Full Tilt Poker pro Erik Seidel has been on a tear as of late. He’s banked a ridiculous $4.3 million in live poker tournaments in 2011, took down the National Heads-Up Poker Championship, and won an AUD $250,000 buy-in tournament “Down Under” at the Aussie Millions for $2.4 million. Now, Seidel is poised to make… Read more »
A quaint field of 92 players turned out for Day 1 of the Hollywood Poker Open, a stop on the World Poker Tour (WPT). Registration remains open until 1:00pm ET on Sunday prior to Day 2 of the $10,000 buy-in tournament and Ali Eslami leads the way with a stack of 147,000. It should come… Read more »
It looks like 2011 is going to be the year of the High Roller event. With new offerings like the Aussie Millions $250,000 Super High Roller tournament and Full Tilt Poker’s Onyx Cup Series leading the way, tournaments for the richest of the rich are the new trend. The latest offering comes to us from… Read more »
The 2011 Bay 101 Shooting Star event, a stop on the World Poker Tour (WPT), wrapped up on Friday with Alan Sternberg taking down the title. Sternberg, a satellite winner, banked over a million dollars and bested one of the toughest final tables of Season IX of the WPT. Sternberg entered the final table second… Read more »
For the first time ever, World Poker Tour (WPT) host Mike Sexton reached the final table of an open event. Sexton will headline the Bay 101 Shooting Star final six today, although he is the low man on the totem pole entering the finale at 363,000 in chips, or just 18 big blinds. Sexton acknowledged… Read more »
Twenty-four players are left standing in the Bay 101 Shooting Star event, a stop on the World Poker Tour (WPT). With four tables in action on Thursday, Joris Springael leads the way with nearly 1.5 million in chips and is one of three players to cross the seven-figure chip mark. Full Tilt Poker pro and… Read more »
After two starting days in the World Poker Tour’s (WPT) Bay 101 Shooting Star tournament, Chris Trapani leads the way with a stack of 197,900. Needless to say, the week has been an emotional roller coaster for Trapani, who gave a eulogy to his father, Marko, prior to the start of play on Day 1A.… Read more »
The Bay 101 Shooting Star event, a stop on the World Poker Tour (WPT), began on Monday afternoon in San Jose, California with 142 players. When the drama ended for the evening, just 66 remained with Day 1B looming on the horizon today. Each Shooting Star had a $5,000 bounty on their head and the… Read more »
Call it an upset if you will at the World Poker Tour’s (WPT) L.A. Poker Classic. With Full Tilt Poker pro Carlos Mortensen seeking to become the first player to four WPT wins and holding down the chip lead entering the final table, rookie Gregory Brooks ultimately came away with the title and banked $1.6… Read more »
Lost in the shuffle of the L.A. Poker Classic and this weekend’s National Heads-Up Poker Championship was the finale of the World Poker Tour (WPT) Celebrity Invitational, which occurred on Wednesday night. In the end, World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelet winner Davidi Kitai came away with a $100,000 first place prize and his first… Read more »
On Tuesday, the World Poker Tour (WPT) announced a partnership with PokerRoad.com that will see Poker Road Radio broadcast shows from WPT stops across the country. ClubWPT will sponsor the popular online radio show, which is hosted by a bevy of media personalities and poker pros. “This is an ideal partnership matching two of the… Read more »
Carlos Mortensen has racked up several impressive distinctions as a player. He’s the only person ever to win the World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event and the World Poker Tour (WPT) Championship. He’s the WPT’s all-time money leader at $5.7 million and, on Thursday, he’ll have a chance to extend that mark. Mortensen will… Read more »
Eighteen players remain in the World Poker Tour’s (WPT) L.A. Poker Classic. Full Tilt Poker pro Vivek “Psyduck” Rajkumar has a stranglehold on the top spot on the leaderboard with 3.2 million in chips after four days of play. In fact, his stack is 40% larger than the second place tally of 2.3 million belonging… Read more »
On Sunday, the money bubble popped at the L.A. Poker Classic, a stop on the World Poker Tour (WPT). Sixty-three players remain and a top prize of $1.6 million is up for grabs. The tournament will dole out the first seven-figure grand prize of Season IX and Jason “TheMasterJ33” DeWitt holds down the top spot… Read more »
The final table of the World Poker Tour (WPT) Celebrity Invitational is set. The group of six was determined last night at the Commerce Casino in Los Angeles and lawyer Damon Schramm leads the way with a stack of 865,000. A top prize of $100,000 is on the line in the invite-only tournament and each… Read more »
Poker News Daily Guest Columnist Linda Johnson is the pacesetter after Day 1 of the World Poker Tour (WPT) Celebrity Invitational. The tournament, which began with a massive field of nearly 500 players on Saturday and is being housed at the Commerce Casino in Los Angeles, now stands at 115 runners. Johnson built a stack… Read more »
This weekend, the World Poker Tour (WPT) will invade the Commerce Casino for its annual Celebrity Invitational, which has already reached capacity. The WPT Celebrity Invitational begins play tomorrow night with a star-studded field that will mix it up with some of the best from the poker world. Beginning at 7:00pm local time, a red… Read more »
For those of you who just can’t get enough poker on television, the World Poker Tour (WPT) returns with brand new episodes beginning Sunday night. Although Season IX is still in full swing, the WPT and Fox Sports Net (FSN) will open up brand new episodes of the current season at either 8:00pm or 11:00pm… Read more »
On Thursday night, Alexander Kuzmin came away with the title in the Southern Poker Championship, a stop on the World Poker Tour (WPT). He lodged a payday worth $601,000 after a 222-hand final table. One-time tournament chip leader and two-time bracelet winner Ryan Hughes was the first casualty of the six-handed finale, which was staged… Read more »
In nine seasons of the World Poker Tour (WPT), no player has ever won the same tournament twice. Come tonight, the curse may be broken, as 2009 Southern Poker Championship winner Allen Carter owns the second largest stack entering the final table of the 2011 installment. Carter and five other players remain in the hunt… Read more »
Although Arizona’s Ryan Hughes is the leader in the clubhouse after Day 3 of the Southern Poker Championship, a stop on the World Poker Tour (WPT), all eyes are on two former winners. Allen “AawwNutz” Carter, who won this event two years ago, has a stack of 530,000, about half of Hughes’ mammoth tally of… Read more »
