In the fastest final table ever held on the World Poker Tour, Vivek Rajkumar, who is known as "Psyduck" in the online poker world, blazed to victory at the Borgata Poker Open in a mere 48 hands. In real time, determining the $1.4 million winner took less than three hours. Read more »
Heading into today's final table of the World Poker Tour's Borgata Poker Open, one man stands perched comfortably atop the field: Vivek Rajkumar. Known as "Psyduck" in the online poker world, Rajkumar has about 50% more chips than his next closest competitor. Read more »
On Wednesday, the final six players of the World Poker Tour's Borgata Poker Open will be determined. The field was narrowed down to 27 players late Tuesday night after starting with 516. Read more »
In Atlantic City, New Jersey, the World Poker Tour Borgata Poker Open wrapped up Day 2 on Monday. At the head of the class was online poker pro Thayer Rasmussen, who held 904,500 chips, which was about 70,000 more than his next closest competitor. Read more »
Monday marked Day 2 of the 2008 Borgata Poker Open. The World Poker Tour event, which is being held in Atlantic City, New Jersey, generated a field of 516 players, down from 560 in 2007. Read more »
On Sunday, September 14th, the Borgata in Atlantic City will become the epicenter of the live poker world. The WPT's Borgata Poker Open, a $10,000 buy-in event, will begin. Read more »
The talk of the poker world on Friday is John "The Razor" Phan, who pocketed $1.1 million for winning the World Poker Tour's Legends of Poker. Read more »
The World Poker Tour Legends of Poker has played down to its final 27 players. The chip leader is Paul Smith, who sits with a 946,000 chip stack. Read more »
These are the top chip counts and fiercest contestants as two days of poker are complete from the Bicycle Casino in Los Angeles, California. Read more »
Day 1B of the 2008 World Poker Tour Legends of Poker event kicked off on Sunday from the Bicycle Casino in sunny Los Angeles, California with just just 373 entrants. Read more »
After a disappointing second quarter report, Word poker Tour Enterprises continue to be under fire as NASDAQ gave them an ultimatum: get their stock value above $1 or be delisted. Read more »
On August 23rd the entire poker world will turn to The Bicycle Casino in Los Angeles, California, to partake of the 2008 Legends of Poker, a World Poker Tour event. Read more »
Word slowly broke across the poker world and on Wall Street in the United States that the World Poker Tour's stock, which is traded on the NASDAQ stock exchange under the symbol "WPTE," had fallen this week from a high of $0.90 per share to $0.68. Read more »
Poker News Daily: How did you become involved with the World Poker Tour originally? Sexton: I knew [WPT Founder and CEO] Steve Lipscomb. He filmed the PartyPoker Million and the Tournament of Champions. He then founded the World Poker Tour. Because he heard my commentary, he selected me to be one of the original commentators on the show. (continues...) Read more »
The World Poker Tour announced this week that its private, subscription-based poker room, Club WPT, has partnered with cable channel Fox Sports Net to air special tournaments above and beyond the 26 episodes that will make up Season VII of the WPT. Club WPT players will battle it out online in elimination blackjack and poker in an attempt to win seats into the weekly series on FSN. Club WPT isn't an online poker room; rather, it operates under sweepstakes rules in the United States, which skirts around any complications with the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act. It was launched in January, 2008. Read more »
The WPT seems unstoppable in its quest for new markets: first they cracked China – the largest population in the world – and now they are set to spread the poker fever over India, the second most populated country in the world. Read more »
The World Poker Tour announced on Thursday that it's packing up its bags and heading to Fox Sports Net after a one-year stint on GSN, the Network for Games. Last month, GSN elected not to pick up its option for exclusive rights to the seventh season of the WPT, prompting a last-minute effort by the California-based poker tour to seek out a new television partner. The latest news came as the Bellagio Cup, which is the first tournament that will be aired as part of Season VII, played its final table. PokerNewsDaily spoke to Steve Lipscomb, CEO of the World Poker Tour, and George Greenberg, Executive Vice President of Production and Programming for Fox Sports and Fox Sports Net. Read more »
Poker News Daily has learned that the World Poker Tour, which is currently without a television partner for Season VII, will announce that it has found a new broadcast outlet on Thursday, July 17. A press release and media interview opportunity will occur and PND will be in the middle of the fray bringing you the latest from this developing story. Read more »
The 2008 World Series of Poker is slowly coming to an end. The $10,000 buy-in Main Event started over one week ago and plays down to the final nine contestants on Monday. The Rio is literally the center of the poker universe right now. However, one tournament across town is about to kick off. The World Poker Tour is about to launch the Bellagio Cup IV, its first tournament of Season VII held on U.S. soil. The $15,000 buy-in event starts with Day 1A on Friday. The event will continue with Day 1B on Saturday and Day 1C on Sunday. Where you can catch the action from Season VII is still up in the air, as the WPT has yet to secure a television partner. Let's travel to the Bellagio to check out last year's Bellagio Cup tournament. Read more »
The World Poker Tour, one of the pioneers in televised poker, is now offering several of its episodes for free on its website. The episodes are limited to Season I, but the entire season is available for viewing, which will give poker fans hours of entertainment. Read more »
