World Poker Tour news
After a sizeable outpouring of entries for the first day of a tournament, longtime grinder Barry Hutter has emerged as the leader of Day 1A of the World Poker Tour’s Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown in Hollywood, FL. Under the format of the tournament (which will also be used on the two other Day Ones… Read more »
Adding on to what is going to be a hectic schedule over the next month, the World Poker Tour has announced what will be their first stop for their Season XIV schedule. Beginning on May 1, the WPT will head to what has become one of its most popular destinations, the Playground Poker Club in… Read more »
It wasn’t quite the historic moment we were waiting for, but the final table of the 2015 World Poker Tour (WPT) Rolling Thunder Main Event was pretty great, nonetheless. After nearly 150 hands and about eight hours, Ravee Mathi Sundar had his name engraved on the WPT Champions Cup as the latest WPT winner. For… Read more »
Just one more day remains in the 2015 World Poker Tour (WPT) Rolling Thunder Main Event, as the original field of 379 players has been cut to just six. Harrison Gimbel is the chip leader going into Wednesday with 3.135 million chips in what should be an extremely competitive final table. This final table is… Read more »
It was carnage on Monday as the 2015 World Poker Tour (WPT) Rolling Thunder Main Event was narrowed from 151 players* to just 18. The money bubble clearly burst – the top 45 players were paid – and Taylor Paur emerged as the top dog with 1,400,000 chips. If Paur can keep this going, he… Read more »
The third leg of the World Poker Tour’s California Swing was in full…swing…this weekend with the 2015 WPT Rolling Thunder Main Event at the Thunder Valley Casino in the Sacramento, California area. A total of 379 players have entered the tournament – 181 on Saturday and 198 on Sunday – making it easily the smallest… Read more »
In what was arguably the toughest final table of the current season, Taylor Paur emerged victorious in the World Poker Tour’s Bay 101 Shooting Stars early Saturday morning. Paur came to the final table with the second biggest chip stack (4.27 million), behind only Isaac Baron’s 6.175 million, when the cards hit the air on… Read more »
The World Poker Tour’s Bay 101 Shooting Star has completed its Day 3 play, setting up for an exciting final table that still features two of the Shooting Stars (bounty players) remaining in the tournament. 36 players came back to fulfill their dreams of reaching a WPT final table, with Imad Allahham having the most realistic… Read more »
In rapid fashion, the players at the World Poker Tour’s Bay 101 Shooting Star event in San Jose, CA, rocketed through the money bubble to get down to the final 36 players that will take part in Day 3 action. At the head of the pack is a player with a limited tournament resume, Imad… Read more »
Both starting flights of the 2015 World Poker Tour (WPT) Bay 101 Shooting Star Main Event are in the books as Day 1B wrapped up last night. Haixia Zhang ended up bagging the most chips at the end of the day, collecting 281,000. 389 players entered Tuesday’s action, making it an even 700 for the… Read more »
One of the most popular events on the World Poker Tour (WPT), the Bay 101 Shooting Star Main Event, kicked off on Monday as 311 players bought-in to Day 1A of the tournament hoping to become the next member of the Champion’s Club. Just 106 made it to Day 2 with Bay 101 defending champ,… Read more »
After coming from the bottom of the standings, Anthony Zinno made history on a few fronts with his victory in the World Poker Tour’s L. A. Poker Classic on Thursday night. At the start of the final table, Zinno was looking way up to the top of the leaderboard. Igor Yaroshevskyy held the chip lead… Read more »
After what turned out to be a short day of action for those in attendance, the World Poker Tour has set the final table for the L. A. Poker Classic at the Commerce Casino. Of the six men who will come to the tables this afternoon to contend for the championship, one is looking for… Read more »
Wednesday could be quite a fun day for Peter Tran at the 2015 World Poker Tour (WPT) L.A. Poker Classic Main Event as he has a massive lead with just twelve players remaining. And since the tournament will play down to the six-handed final table today, Day 5 should be short. Heck, Tran might be… Read more »
Day 3 of the 2015 World Poker Tour (WPT) L.A. Poker Classic Main Event is in the books and with just 43 players remaining, things should be a bit tense at the Commerce Casino on Tuesday as the final table is within reach. Peter Tran leads the survivors going into Day 4 with 1.369 million… Read more »
The first leg of the World Poker Tour’s (WPT) California Swing kicked off over the weekend as the WPT L.A. Poker Classic Main Event got underway at the Commerce Casino. Two days have already been completed; 538 players registered for the $10,000 tournament and going into Monday’s Day 3, only 120 remain. Brent Hart has… Read more »
In a result that should surprise exactly nobody, Anthony Zinno won the 2015 World Poker Tour (WPT) Fallsview Poker Classic Main Event Monday night, claiming about $400,000 in combined prize money and a seat in the WPT Championship at the end of the season. This is Zinno’s second WPT title, the first coming in 2013… Read more »
The final table of the World Poker Tour (WPT) Fallsview Poker Classic Main Event is today and while it comes with plenty of celebration, a damper was put on the excitement at the beginning of the Classic because of an unusual problem for a poker tournament: ticket scalping. It is not unusual for people to… Read more »
The final table of the World Poker Tour (WPT) Fallsview Poker Classic Main Event was set yesterday evening as just six players remain from the original 419. Anthony Zinno is the chip leader with 4.73 million chips, a solid 2 million ahead of his closest competitor, Corey Hochman. After Hochman, it is another million down… Read more »
After dominating much of the tournament over the final three days of play, Brian Altman completed the job in finishing off his only nemesis, Mark Dube, to win the World Poker Tour’s Lucky Hearts Poker Open at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Hollywood, FL, last night. To say that Altman, who picked… Read more »
With Day 4 in the books, the six-handed final table of the World Poker Tour (WPT) Lucky Hearts Poker Open is set. And while there may be six players at the table, it appears, at this point, that it will come down to two: Mark Dube and Brian Altman. The two men, who led the… Read more »
It was a relatively quick day at the World Poker Tour (WPT) Lucky Hearts Poker Open Main Event in Hollywood, Florida on Monday as just 60 eliminations were needed to get down to the final 18 players. The tournament still proceeded into the night, but shutting the festivities down before 9:30pm is early compared to… Read more »
With the three starting flights in the books, Sunday saw all of the survivors of the World Poker Tour (WPT) Lucky Hearts Poker Open Main Event reconvene for Day 2. 361 players entered Sunday’s play with just 78 remaining to advance to today’s Day 3. It is a close race for the pole position, as… Read more »
Three Day Ones have been completed in the 2015 World Poker Tour’s Lucky Hearts Poker Open at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Hollywood, FL. From that trio of Day Ones, a massive field has been built, guaranteeing a sizeable first place prize. The WPT changed the Lucky Hearts event for 2015, going… Read more »
At a final table in which nearly everyone held the lead at some point, Aaron Mermelstein held it when it mattered most in winning the World Poker Tour’s Borgata Winter Poker Open last night in Atlantic City. Shawn Cunix, in the hunt for his second WPT championship, had run roughshod over the field the previous… Read more »
