Tony Tran won the World Poker Tour Rolling Thunder Main Event Tuesday, beating his friend Jake Schwartz for the title. For the victory over a field of 250 entries, Tran won $279,270. It is the second WPT crown of his career. The most fascinating part of Tran’s triumph is that it came over Schwartz. In… Read more »
In what turned out to be a rather quick Wednesday for the survivors of the World Poker Tour’s stop at the L. A. Poker Classic, the final table of six has been determined. There are some familiar names on the board, but they’ll be looking up at Balakrishna Patur and his 6.32 million stack. Instead… Read more »
The World Poker Tour (WPT) L.A. Poker Classic Main Event is down to just eleven players going into Day 5 with Isaac Baron in the lead, holding 2.970 million chips. Wednesday could be a short day, as the field will be narrowed to six players. The remaining field is extremely strong, with four past World… Read more »
The World Poker Tour is going “old school” this weekend, harkening back to the days when tournament poker was “may the best man win” and you actually had to think about your actions! The WPT’s yearly stop at the Commerce Casino for the 2020 WPT L. A. Poker Classic has drawn out the players once… Read more »
Amid a flurry of poker tournaments staged over the past couple of weeks, the World Poker Tour has arguably left the most prestigious one for last. The WPT L. A. Poker Classic (known by the acronym LAPC) is a venerable stop on the circuit that will begin action on Saturday, bringing back a nostalgia for… Read more »
Eric Afriat may have garnered more attention by earning his third career World Poker Tour bracelet at the WPT Fallsview Poker Classic on Sunday, but there was a second WPT champ crowned that very same day across the Atlantic. Christopher Puetz won the WPT Germany Main Event, the first time he has ever won a… Read more »
Eric Afriat was the short stack of the World Poker Tour (WPT) Fallsview Poker Classic with ten players remaining. He was the short stack going into the official six-handed final table. But as we know in poker, all it takes is “a chip and a chair.” Afriat came back from the brink to take the… Read more »
After initially beginning with some smallish opening day fields, the 2020 World Poker Tour Germany stop at the King’s Casino in Rozvadov, Czech Republic, has reached its final table with some impressive numbers along the way. There’s a few notable names on that leaderboard for Sunday’s final table, with Gianluca Speranza leading the way and… Read more »
The World Poker Tour is at King’s Resort in Rozvadov, Czech Republic for WPT…Germany? Yes, the WPT Germany Main Event is underway, with the second of three starting flights coming to a close Wednesday. Laszlo Papai goes into Day 2 as the chip leader, coming out of Day 1A with 246,900 chips. Josef Gulas, the… Read more »
The World Poker Tour continues its breakneck schedule through the early part of 2020 with their latest stop on the East Coast. The Borgata in Atlantic City, NJ, is the host for the WPT Borgata Winter Poker Open and, once again, the players have flooded the floor to the tune of 1290 entries for the… Read more »
Everyone wants to have a perfect birthday. Birthdays are special! We only get, I don’t know, 100 to 150 of them in our lives? Chief Justice John Roberts just celebrated his by presiding over an impeachment trial, which would not qualify as a perfect birthday. But Patrick Serda certainly had one, as he ended Day… Read more »
They are through both starting flights in Atlantic City as the 2020 World Poker Tour (WPT) Borgata Winter Poker Open is on to Day 2 on Tuesday. There were 683 entries on Day 1B, bringing the total field to more than 1,000. Registration is open for the first two levels of Day 2, so there… Read more »
‘Tis a busy start of the year for the World Poker Tour, as yet another WPT event got underway over the weekend. The WPT Borgata Winter Poker Open Main Event kicked off on Sunday with the first of two starting days. There were a total of 382 entries on Day 1A, with 199 players making… Read more »
He had talked for days about the possibility and on Wednesday, Brian Altman’s hopes finally came to fruition: he won the 2020 World Poker Tour (WPT) Lucky Hearts Poker Open. In doing so, he became the first person in World Poker Tour history to win the same event twice. “Winning a second WPT title feels… Read more »
Brian Altman was at the top of the leaderboard for days and now with just one day left in the World Poker Tour (WPT) Lucky Hearts Poker Open, he is the chip leader going into the six-handed final table. It is a two-man race at the moment, as Altman has 10.400 million chips, but is… Read more »
The good news about my Green Bay Packers getting completely outclassed yesterday to end their season is that the next couple weeks won’t be filled with overloading my brain with Super Bowl info. As a result, I should have more time to write wonderful poker content. For example, the World Poker Tour (WPT) Lucky Hearts… Read more »
Chance Kornuth was the chip leader going into Day 4 of the World Poker Tour (WPT) Gardens Poker Championship and he remains in that position coming out of it with just six players remaining. Though the final table has been set, the six men must now wait until March 31st to play it out at… Read more »
Chance Kornuth is the leader of the World Poker Tour (WPT) Gardens Poker Championship after Sunday’s Day 3, holding 1.709 million chips. With just 14 players remaining, Kornuth is in fantastic position to try for his first WPT title. It’s a bit of the “haves and have-nots” on the leaderboard heading into Monday’s action. After… Read more »
Building a very nice prize pool, there were many stragglers who came into the game for Day 2 of the World Poker Tour’s Gardens Poker Championship at the Gardens Casino in California. Those extra entries didn’t have an effect on the decimating rate of eliminations, however, as only 48 survived the day with Markus Gonsalves… Read more »
While many may be lamenting that, for the first time in 16 years, there is nothing going on in the Bahamas, the tournament poker world is going on. It may have slipped under the radar, but the World Poker Tour has gotten back into its Season XVIII swing with a stop at the Gardens Casino… Read more »
The World Poker Tour (WPT) announced on Tuesday a new promotion in conjunction with ClubWPT that will reward ClubWPT players handsomely should they win a WPT Main Tour event. This year, any ClubWPT member who qualifies for a WPT Main Tour event and then wins it will win a $1 million bonus in addition to… Read more »
The final championship for the World Poker Tour in 2019 has been determined. After a seven-hour final table battle, defending Global Poker Index Player of the Year Alex Foxen was able to capture one of the most prestigious titles on the WPT circuit, the WPT Five Diamond World Poker Classic. In addition to winning the… Read more »
The World Poker Tour is pulling into the home stretch of its final event on the Main Tour for the 2019 calendar year. The WPT Five Diamond World Poker Classic at the Bellagio in Las Vegas is down to its final 22 players, with each table filled with tough competition and newcomers looking to make… Read more »
As usual, the World Poker Tour’s final event for the 2019 calendar year has once again drawn out the players looking for a Christmas present. The WPT Five Diamond World Poker Classic is in full swing, having built a 1035 entry field with one of the few $10,000 buy-in events left on their schedule. There… Read more »
T.K. Miles is the pace setter at the 2019 World Poker Tour (WPT) Five Diamond World Poker Classic after Day 2, finishing Tuesday with 688,500 chips. Two other players – Mike Vanier and Alex Papazian – have over 600,000, while another four players eclipsed the half-million chip mark. After registration closed at the end of… Read more »
