Apologies if we missed this while focusing on other things, but did you know that the World Poker Tour (WPT) Legends of Poker Main Event has been underway for a few days? Seriously. It’s actually going on right now as I write this. And after Day 2, two players are tied for the lead: Jeremy… Read more »
Battling through a 373-player field and the start of final table chip leader, veteran pro Roger Teska earned his first major championship and a brand-new BMW in taking down the first event of the World Poker Tour’s Season XVIII schedule, the 2019 WPT Gardens Poker Festival. Deep Final Table Doesn’t Stop the Action The final… Read more »
It took a grand total of five hours for Day 4 of the 2019 World Poker Tour Gardens Poker Festival to determine its final table on Wednesday. When the smoke from the rush to the exits cleared for the first event of the WPT’s Season XVIII schedule, it was the Day 3 leader Lior Orel… Read more »
The money bubble burst at the 2019 World Poker Tour (WPT) Gardens Poker Festival Main Event on Tuesday as the field was trimmed from 54 players all the way to 11 heading into Day 4. Eric Hicks will enter Wednesday as the chip leader with 3.060 million, the only player to have eclipsed the 3… Read more »
There were probably a few poker players that had trouble sleeping last night in the Los Angeles area, as Day 2 finished up in the World Poker Tour (WPT) Gardens Poker Festival Main Event just seven spots away from the money. I know if I was a short stack, I would have been tossing and… Read more »
The 2019 World Series of Poker may have ended less than a week ago and it may feel like it’s time for poker players to take a breather and relax, but the poker calendar waits for no one. The first World Poker Tour event of the new season – the WPT Gardens Poker Festival –… Read more »
As the 2019 World Series of Poker was beginning, Season XVII of the World Poker Tour was ending and it all came to a head early this week when Ole Schemion won the Baccarat Crystal WPT Tournament of Champions at the Aria Resort and Casino in Las Vegas. Not that my opinion means anything, especially… Read more »
It may be World Series of Poker time, but that is not stopping the World Poker Tour from grabbing some headlines. The WPT has announced a portion of the schedule for Season XVIII, a slate of thirteen events that it calls the “backbone” of the 2019-2020 season. Five of the events include delayed final tables… Read more »
The World Poker Tour, if you didn’t know it, is running their Tournament of Champions this weekend at the HyperX eSports Arena in Las Vegas. It also has concluded the final three events of their Season XVII schedule – the WPT Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown, the WPT Choctaw and the WPT ARIA Summer Championship… Read more »
The World Poker Tour has traipsed the world over the past 12 months, traveling from Sochi, Russia, to Barcelona, to Montreal, to Atlantic City and, finally, to Las Vegas. The ARIA Summer Championship will begin on Monday with a $10,000 buy in tournament that is sure to draw a sizeable and strong professional contingent ready… Read more »
For almost two decades, the World Poker Tour has brought the magic, the drama and the skill of poker to the television viewers. As they prepare for their eighteenth season of action, the WPT has announced which venue and tournament will earn the honor of holding the Season XVIII season opener. The Gardens Casino to… Read more »
Day 1B at the World Poker Tour’s Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown was everything that it was billed to be. The players once again came out to utterly crush the $3 million guaranteed prize pool as 648 entries hit the tables. By the time the final hands were dealt on Saturday night, Shawn Nguyen had… Read more »
Only three events are left in the World Poker Tour’s Season XVII schedule and their stop in Florida is so far a big one. The WPT Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown in Hollywood, FL, kicked off the first of two-Day Ones with a monstrous field that saw Davian Santana come out on top by the… Read more »
It doesn’t seem like it was that long ago, but the World Poker Tour is in the midst of their Season XVII schedule as we speak. As the final few events prepare to wrap ahead of the 2019 WPT Tournament of Champions, the broadcasts of the prior WPT events that make up Season XVII will… Read more »
While the World Poker Tour gets ready to stage three final tables beginning next week (more on this in a bit), the regular tour is going on at the Thunder Valley Casino Resort in Northern California. The WPT Rolling Thunder, now in its sixth year, has finished off its two-Day Ones and currently is looking… Read more »
If there’s one thing that poker legend Phil Hellmuth is noted for, it is his incessant self-promotion. He could sit back and let his resume do the talking – the 15 World Series of Poker titles, 136 total career cashes and nearly $23 million in career earnings – but the “Poker Brat” isn’t that way.… Read more »
ade by the WPT is with BT Sport, one of the largest broadcast outlets in the U. K. Responsible for the channels BT Sport 1, BT Sport 2 and BT Sport 3 in the U. K. and Ireland, BT Sport will be broadcasting the Season XV (the most recent completed season) for its viewers. It… Read more »
This last weekend, the World Poker Tour was playing in one of its venerable abodes, the Borgata in Atlantic City. The WPT Borgata Winter Poker Open Main Event has become one of the preeminent poker stops on the tournament poker schedule, routinely drawing over 1000 entries in each of the last three years. But instead… Read more »
Although it is getting a bit quieter with the holidays approaching, the World Series of Poker and the World Poker Tour have been busy with some moves. In one case, one organization is announcing the dates for its historic anniversary and the other is announcing a sale that leaves some questions. WSOP to Run May… Read more »
Dylan Linde was a one-man wrecking crew on Saturday night at the Bellagio, storming through the final table of the 2018 World Poker Tour Five Diamond World Poker Classic en route to taking down the prestigious title. There Can Be Only One… Linde had been cruising leading up to the final table of the event,… Read more »
The World Poker Tour is down to the penultimate day after taking the final 45 players down to the final six in the Five Diamond World Poker Classic Main Event. It will be a stacked – and deeply stacked – final table led by Milos Skrbic and Dylan Linde, who have to fight off several… Read more »
The World Poker Tour’s final stop for the 2018 calendar year is inching closer to its conclusion. After setting a record for the largest ever $10,000 tournament in its history, the WPT Five Diamond World Poker Classic popped the money bubble on Thursday and brought the field closer to crowning a champion on Saturday night.… Read more »
Wrapping up the calendar year for their Season XVII schedule, the World Poker Tour has ventured to its December home, the Bellagio in Las Vegas, for the Five Diamond World Poker Classic. And, as usual, the players have responded. After two days of play and late registration going up until after the dinner break, a… Read more »
As has been mentioned previously on this site, the World Poker Tour made an interesting strategic decision for 2019, delaying the final table of some of its events, not unlike the November Nine format that the World Series of Poker used for a decade. The selected final tables will all be held at the HyperX… Read more »
Major poker tournament schedules always have as a disclaimer “We reserve the right to amend the schedule as deemed necessary.” The World Poker Tour is putting that disclaimer into effect, but in a good way. It was announced that the WPT will be adding a stop to their schedule, a tournament at the Venetian in… Read more »
