The World Poker Tour (WPT) Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown Championship event is down to just 16 players as the tournament heads into its penultimate day on Tuesday. Sridhar Sangannagari is the chip leader after Day 3, holding a stack of 18.125 million chips. Only two other players – James Anderson (16.925 million) and Rafael… Read more »
After two Day Ones that stretched the limits of the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino’s tournament floor, the World Poker Tour’s Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown played through Day Two on Sunday in Hollywood, FL. They were able to get the money bubble popped from the 287 players who were fortunate enough to earn… Read more »
Yesterday in our preview of the 2023 World Poker Tour stop at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Hollywood, we mentioned how the players ALWAYS flock to the Florida properties. Day 1A of the WPT Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown demonstrated this fact, busting the guarantee in only one day in setting a… Read more »
We are only a month away from the 2023 World Series of Poker, so it is only natural that the two major tournament poker circuits get in their last action before everyone goes to “Summer Camp” in Las Vegas. On Friday, the World Poker Tour will open action on their latest trek to Florida. Later… Read more »
Scott Eskenazi began the WPT Rolling Thunder final table nearly tied for the shortest stack with just one-fifth the chips of chip leader Alejandro Jauregui, but came roaring back to win the whole thing for his first World Poker Tour title. Eskenazi quickly accumulated chips, thanks to a double-up through Tony Dunst, to bring himself… Read more »
The effort to give people around the world access to safe drinking water has taken a step forward, as the World Poker Tour announced a partnership with the One Drop Foundation. “WPT has always committed to giving back to those in need both locally and globally,” said WPT CEO Adam Pliska in a press release.… Read more »
In one of the shortest World Poker Tour final tables we have seen, Eliot Hudon defeated Benny Glaser heads-up to win the inaugural WPT World Championship and an incredible $4,146,400 first prize. As it would be for most people, it is by far the largest cash of Hudon’s career – he had previously won just… Read more »
The 2022 WPT World Championship at Wynn Las Vegas has its final table, but right now, it should be called the “Benny Glaser” show, as Glaser has a sizeable chip lead with just six players remaining. Holding 133.6 million chips, he is about 53 million ahead of his closest competitor, and has almost as many… Read more »
There’s something to be said for saving the best for last. The World Poker Tour has brought the end of their 2022 tournament season to the Wynn Las Vegas and simultaneously brought back a classic event (it was last officially held in 2017). The 2022 WPT World Championship has been revived and, whether it was… Read more »
The $15 million guaranteed prize pool for the WPT World Championship was ambitious, hyped as the largest-ever guarantee for a live poker tournament. Tournament organizers needed 1,531 entries in order to avoid overlay, which in certain timelines could be a tough ask. Not many $10,000 ($10,400 in this case) tourneys outside the World Series of… Read more »
The World Poker Tour’s final event of 2022 began Monday, as the WPT World Championship kicked off with the first of three starting flights. It promises to be a big one, as Day 1A already saw 615 $10,400 entries. It makes sense, too, as the guaranteed prize pool is $15 million, the largest ever for… Read more »
Christmas (or Hanukkah, or Kwanzaa, or whichever holiday celebration you follow) is just around the corner, but poker isn’t taking any breaks. On both sides of the Atlantic, major tournament schedules are underway. The play in these events should capture the attention of poker’s fandom and keep them entertained up to Santa’s drop down the… Read more »
In the last matchup before the World Poker Tour World Championship in mid-December, the WPT Seminole Rock ‘N’ Roll Poker Open title was determined last night. In the end, Andrew Wilson rode a monster start-of-day chip lead to the title. On the way to that championship, Wilson was also able to deny two attempts at… Read more »
The World Poker Tour (WPT) Seminole Rock ‘N’ Roll Poker Open (RRPO) is down to its final six players, each hoping to grab the $785,800 first prize. Holding an overwhelming lead heading into Wednesday’s final table is Andrew Wilson, who, with 33.425 million chips, has over 43% of the chips in play. Despite the gap… Read more »
The World Poker Tour (WPT) The World Poker Tour (WPT) Seminole Rock ‘N’ Roll Poker Open (RRPO) Championship event is into its penultimate day, as just 16 players remain from the original 1,541 entries. Andrew Wilson is the chip leader heading into Tuesday’s action with 12.875 million chips. Just one other player has an eight-figure… Read more »
The World Poker Tour (WPT) Seminole Rock ‘N’ Roll Poker Open (RRPO) Championship event is into Day 3 and it is Kyle Merron leading the final 80 players with 2.415 million chips. The tournament will play down to 16 players on Monday. There were a total of 1,541 entries across the two starting flights, generating… Read more »
Phil Ivey has never been known as the talkative one at the poker table. His public persona throughout his legendary poker career has been one of relative stoicism. Thus, it may have been surprising to hear last week that the World Poker Tour signed Ivey as its newest ambassador, one of the public faces of… Read more »
Chad Eveslage rose from the bottom half of the chip stacks to begin final table play at the World Poker Tour (WPT) Five Diamond World Poker Classic to claim his second WPT title. The $1 million+ first prize took Eveslage’s lifetime live tournament earnings to $6.725 million. “Bunch of emotions, very tired, happy,” Eveslage told… Read more »
The final table is set at the Bellagio for this afternoon’s resumption of the 2022 World Poker Tour Five Diamond World Poker Classis – well, the “not-quite” final table, at least. Seven men are left in the running for the more than $1 million prize, with the first knockout on Sunday officially setting the six-handed… Read more »
I was listening to a podcast while making dinner last night about my all-time favorite movie, Field of Dreams (if you like sports and sports movies, check out the Big Screen Sports podcast – it’s fun!). Naturally, they talked about James Earl Jones’ big monologue near the end, part of which goes, “America has rolled… Read more »
Becoming a World Poker Tour (WPT) champion is a wonderful accomplishment. Having the specific feat be a first in poker history is even cooler. On Tuesday, David Tang won the WPT Australia Main Event, the first main tour stop in Australia in the WPT’s illustrious history. The total field was 710 players, generating a prize… Read more »
In a six handed final table that lasted well over 260 hands and almost eight hours, Corey Wade was the last player standing from the 1165 entry field in Tampa, FL. At the World Poker Tour’s stop at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in the “City of Champions,” Wade was able to come… Read more »
The field of the World Poker Tour (WPT) Seminole Hard Rock Tampa Main Event was trimmed from 16 to just six on Tuesday as the final table is now ready to go. The remaining players will gather on Wednesday afternoon to battle it out for the $615,500 first prize and their name on the WPT… Read more »
According to the tournament structure sheet, the 2022 World Poker Tour (WPT) Seminole Hard Rock Tampa Main Event was supposed to play down to 24 players on Monday. I suppose the competitors were just having too much fun, though, Day 3 finished with just 16 players as the tournament heads into its penultimate day. Leading… Read more »
Just 99 players remain in the 2022 World Poker Tour (WPT) Seminole Hard Rock Tampa Main Event, down from the 414 that began Day 2. Corey Wade is the chip leader going into Monday’s Day 3, holding 1.945 million chips. With 1,165 total entries (which, as noted over the weekend, was the exact same number… Read more »
