The World Poker Tour has pulled into the Borgata in Atlantic City for their latest event, the Borgata Poker Open, and it has once again shown to be one of their bigger events of this Season XVI schedule or otherwise. Coming into Wednesday’s action, the 1132 entry field had been whittled down to 117 players;… Read more »
In an e-mail sent to customers on Monday, the World Poker Tour's Casino and Poker Room referred its players to InterPoker. The WPT's poker room is scheduled to cease operations this Thursday, November 20th. Read more »
Defending WPT Player of the Year Jonathan Little captures the championship of the World Poker Tour's World Poker Finals at Foxwoods, defeating Jonathan Jaffe in the longest heads up battle in the history of the WPT to take the title. Read more »
Coming into Day Five of the World Poker Tour's latest stop in Connecticut, the World Poker Finals at Foxwoods, six men were guaranteed that they would reach the final table. Four unfortunate souls, although taking home a nice payday, would not be able to say that they officially reached that elusive WPT final table goal. Read more »
With 33 players left at the World Poker Tour's World Poker Finals at Foxwoods, Day Four figured to either be a quick day of play in getting to the final nine players or a long grind of five levels of play. By the time play had been suspended for the evening, Full Tilt Poker pro Mike Matusow had emerged as the leader of the event with ten players left. Read more »
After the furious action from Friday, where nearly 160 players were eliminated, Saturday at the World Poker Tour's World Poker Finals did not disappoint. Many in the field wondered if Jonathan Jaffe could sustain his chip lead and drive his way to the final table. Read more »
With 249 of the original 412 players left in the field at the World Poker Tour's World Poker Finals at Foxwoods, it looked as though they would need quite a bit of time to work down to the final table, which is scheduled for Tuesday. Read more »
In breaking news on Thursday, the World Poker Tour announced that it had signed an agreement with FullTiltPoker.net, the educational site owned and operated by Full Tilt Poker. The online poker room will receive title sponsorship to the 26 episodes that will air on Fox Sports Net as part of the WPT's seventh season. Read more »
I don't get the opportunity to play a lot of poker these days. I'm busy as a commentator with the World Poker Tour, involved with NLOP.com and Party Poker, but most importantly, I'm a new father (Ty Michael Sexton is ten weeks old!). Read more »
While many in the poker world may be paying attention to the final table of the World Series of Poker Main Event, many top professional players and amateurs alike will be sidetracked by stepping up to the tables at the World Poker Tour's World Poker Finals in Connecticut on Wednesday. Read more »
Recently, cable station GSN announced that it had decided to move poker-related programming to Sunday nights. The network is the home of popular cash game show "High Stakes Poker" and holds the rights to the sixth season of the World Poker Tour. Read more »
Bertrand Grospellier, who is known in the online poker world as "Elky," controlled the final table of the World Poker Tour's Festa al Lago event, eliminating every person and holding more than a 15:1 chip lead when play was heads-up. Read more »
Team PokerStars Pro member Betrand "Elky" Grospellier leads the field entering the final table at the World Poker Tour's Festa al Lago tournament. The six-handed televised table kicks off this afternoon at 4:00pm Pacific Time from the Bellagio in Las Vegas. Read more »
The final 12 players in the World Poker Tour's Festa al Lago tournament have been determined and leading the way is Team PokerStars Pro member Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier, who holds 2.04 million chips, barely edging second place Odie Dardon's stack of 1.96 million. Read more »
On Thursday, the third day of play concluded from the Bellagio in Las Vegas, the site of the World Poker Tour's Festa al Lago. The $15,000 buy-in tournament attracted 368 players, creating the largest prize pool for the tournament ever. After Day 3 had concluded, Ryan Fair led the way with 1.3 million chips. Read more »
There were a total of 368 players who entered the World Poker Tour's Festa al Lago tournament. Although the size of the field was down in comparison to the last two WPT tournaments held, the prize pool set a new record for a Festa al Lago event due to the larger $15,000 buy-in. Read more »
The first of two starting days of the Festa al Lago was played out on Monday. Day 1B will kick off today, but sitting as the leader in the clubhouse is World Series of Poker bracelet winner Antonio "The Magician" Esfandiari, who holds 50% more chips than his next closest competitor. Read more »
World Poker Tour Enterprises, owner of the eponymous landmark poker tour since its inception seven years ago, announced on Friday that they will be closing their online poker room that has been in operation for slightly over two years. Read more »
Fresh off Glen Witmer's landmark win in the World Poker Tour's North American Poker Championship just a few days ago in Niagara Falls, the WPT is back in action beginning on Monday. This time, the Bellagio in Las Vegas is the site of the Festa al Lago. Read more »
Formerly a World Poker Tour event, the World Poker Open at the Gold Strike Casino in Tunica, Mississippi began this week. The Main Event is a $5,150 buy-in tournament that starts on Sunday, October 26th. Read more »
This week, World Poker Tour Enterprises, which is traded on the NASDAQ Stock Exchange in the United States under the symbol "WPTE," announced the hiring of Thomas Flahie to be the company's new Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Read more »
With accomplished poker pros Gavin Smith, Kathy Liebert, and Marc Karam all seated at the final table of the World Poker Tour's North American Poker Championship (NAPC), few people likely gave 67 year-old Glen Witmer any shot at winning. Read more »
The final table of the World Poker Tour's North American Poker Championship (NAPC) will kick off at 4:00pm ET today. At it will be a pair of well-known pros, Gavin Smith and Kathy Liebert. Both will seek to make poker history at the final table. Read more »
At the World Poker Tour's North American Poker Championship (NAPC), Vivek Rajkumar is trying to do something that no other player has ever done on the WPT circuit: win back to back Main Event titles. Rajkumar, the champion of the WPT Borgata Poker Open, is the chip leader with 27 players remaining. Read more »
Hopefully Full Tilt Poker pro Gavin Smith made a prop bet that he would win the World Poker Tour's North American Poker Championship. At the NAPC, he sits as the chip leader heading into Day 3 on Tuesday with 405,900, edging Matt Matros' 383,800. Play resumes at 12:00 noon local time today. Read more »
