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 »
By the time many workers across North America take their lunch breaks on Monday, the World Poker Tour North American Poker Championship (NAPC) will be well underway on Day 2, which kicks off at 12:00 noon local time. There were 166 players who coughed up the $10,300 CDN entry on Day 1C on Sunday, raising the overall field to 454. Read more »
Saturday marked the second of three starting days of the World Poker Tour's North American Poker Championship. In advance of Sunday's Day 1C, Jamie Rosen, who plays on PokerStars under the name "thecronic420," led the way with 196,300 chips on Day 1B, giving him 25% more than the next closest stack. Read more »
Day 1A of the World Poker Tour North American Poker Championship occurred on Friday and leading the pack after the conclusion of five levels of play was poker pro J.C. Tran. The World Series of Poker bracelet winner held 159,300 chips when the day concluded and now has two days to explore Niagara Falls in advance of Monday's Day 2. Read more »
In a move announced by Lakes Entertainment on Tuesday, the company "declared a stock dividend of all of the Company's shares in WPT Enterprises, Inc.," according to its statement. The actual distribution of stock will take place on November 21st. Read more »
The stock market in the United States has declined precipitously in recent weeks. News of a possible "bailout" hit the wires on Tuesday night. However, stocks listed on any of the major exchanges in the United States have taken a beating. Among them is the World Poker Tour, which sank to an intraday low of $0.56 on Tuesday, its lowest share price on record. Read more »
Starting this Sunday, October 5th, viewers of Fox Sports Net will be able to watch members of ClubWPT, the World Poker Tour's subscription-based online poker room, battle it out on television. The series, which is called ClubWPT.com, will air at 4:00pm local time with an encore at 11:00pm. Read more »
The World Poker Tour announced that it would air two tournaments filmed at the River Rock Casino in Vancouver as part of the first-ever WPT Canada series. Read more »
On Thursday at 4:00pm the final table of the WPT's Legends of Poker will kick off from the Bicycle Casino in Los Angeles, California. Six players remain to battle it out. Read more »
On Friday night, Day 1A of the 2008 World Poker Tour Legends of Poker event kicked off at the Bicycle Casino in Los Angeles, California. 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 »
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 »
