World Poker Tour news
It was on to Day 2 Sunday at the 2014 World Poker Tour (WPT) L.A. Poker Classic Main Event as about 400 players returned to continue the grind towards the money. Scott Blackman, the chip leader after Day 1, pulled off the rare feat of remaining in the top spot when Day 2 came to… Read more »
The poker world has descended on the Commerce Casino in Bell Gardens, CA, for the first leg of the World Poker Tour‘s “West Coast swing.” The WPT L. A. Poker Classic has completed its Day One action with Scott Blackman holding a sizeable edge over pros Ali Eslami and Joe Tehan. With late registration going… Read more »
Matthew Lapossie was mired deep in the middle of the pack to start the final table of the WPT Fallsview Poker Classic Main Event on Monday, but he quickly leapt into contention thanks to a spectacular hand and from there, Lapossie went on to win it all. For his efforts, he won CAD $363,197 (USD… Read more »
If you were looking for a quick World Poker Tour (WPT) event, you are in luck. The 2014 WPT Fallsview Poker Classic Main Event started on Saturday and is already down to its final ten players. Jason James is the chip leader going into Monday’s Day 3 with 2,606,000 chips, a significant advantage over his… Read more »
As they prepare to hit the home stretch of their Season XII schedule, the World Poker Tour has settled in Niagara Falls, Canada, for today’s start to the WPT Fallsview Poker Classic at the Fallsview Casino Resort. The 2014 Fallsview Poker Classic could perhaps be called a “throwback” to the way poker tournaments were previously… Read more »
After two days of play in what was a disappointing turnout for the World Poker Tour Alpha8 series, Daniel ‘Jungleman’ Cates emerged as the champion over local favorite Kinesh Pather at the Emperors Palace Hotel Casino in Johannesburg, South Africa, this afternoon. The WPT Alpha8 tournaments have had decent fields leading up to the Alpha8… Read more »
The 2014 World Poker Tour (WPT) Lucky Hearts Poker Open Main Event wrapped up Tuesday as the six players at the final table competed to see who would take the crown of the year’s first WPT event in Florida. Fittingly, it was Floridian James Calderaro who ended up on top, beating Shannon Shorr heads up… Read more »
The survivors from the two starting flights of the 2014 World Poker Tour (WPT) Lucky Hearts Poker Open Main Event combined for Day 2 on Sunday looking to be rewarded for their hard work with a pay day. Day 2 began with 167 players and just 54 were going to make the money, so Sunday… Read more »
After a Day 1A that was thought to be pretty large, Day 1B of the World Poker Tour’s Lucky Hearts Poker Open at the Coconut Creek Casino in Florida blew the doors off the building. Through another ten levels of play on Day 1B, a new overall leader was crowned in the form of Jaime… Read more »
The World Poker Tour has pulled into Florida’s Seminole Coconut Creek Casino for their latest Main Event. With a $1 million guaranteed prize pool on the line (plus unlimited re-entry and multiple Day Ones), even Day 1A was expected to draw a crowd and it didn’t disappoint. As the cards hit the air on Friday,… Read more »
The news going into the weekend may have been dominated by Barack Obama’s State of the Union Address, the Super Bowl, and the fallout from Atlanta’s “Snowpocalypse,” but six poker players in Atlantic City were focused on one thing: $842,379. That was the first prize of the 2014 World Poker Tour (WPT) Borgata Winter Poker… Read more »
The final table is set for the World Poker Tour’s Borgata Winter Poker Open with solid pro David Paredes atop the standings. In search of his first major championship, Paredes will have to contend with a quintet of opponents that also includes former WPT champion Jared Jaffee. 36 survivors came back to the felt on… Read more »
The 2014 World Poker Tour (WPT) Borgata Winter Poker Open Main Event is one of the largest tournaments in the history of the Tour, making Laz Hernandez’s performance to this point that much more impressive. In what has become a rarity in major tournament poker, Hernandez ended Day 2 as the chip leader after starting… Read more »
Things didn’t start too well for the World Poker Tour (WPT) Borgata Winter Poker Open, but now that the counterfeit chip scandal is at least partially in the rearview mirror, it’s time for bigger and better things. Day 1B of the Main Event concluded Monday as 806 players bellied up to the tables after 423… Read more »
Sunday marked the first day that two major poker tournaments schedules got back into action for their current seasons. In the United States, the World Poker Tour restarted their Season XII schedule at the $3500 buy in Borgata Winter Poker Open and, in France, the European Poker Tour pitched the cards in the air for… Read more »
The World Poker Tour’s 2013 calendar year has come to a conclusion after events in both Prague and Korea determined their champions. The WPT Prague concluded this afternoon at the Card Casino in the capital city of the Czech Republic. The six survivors from the 284 player starting field featured something for everyone in the… Read more »
As expected, Day 1C of the 2013 World Poker Tour (WPT) Prague Main Event was much larger than either of the other two starting flights. In fact, it was larger than both combined. Working backwards from the end total and taking into account those who registered prior to the start of Wednesday’s Day 2, it… Read more »
In poker, chip stacks can change in the blink of an eye. One second you can be at the top of the field, the next you can be wallowing as the short stack. As such, we often see significant changes at the top of tournament leaderboards day to day. In the penultimate day of the… Read more »
The 75 survivors from the two starting flights came together in a unified field for Day 2 of the 2013 World Poker Tour (WPT) Korea Main Event Tuesday as the first official WPT event on the Asian continent moved right along. Those who sat down with chips on Day 2 were hoping to make the… Read more »
Day 1B of the World Poker Tour (WPT) Prague Main Event was almost twice as big as Day 1A, but that’s not saying much as far as major international poker tournaments are concerned. Day 1A saw just 40 players take their seats; the 73 that paid to play Monday were quite the step up on… Read more »
The inaugural World Poker Tour (WPT) Korea Main Event continued Monday as another round of players gathered at the Ramada Plaza Jeju in South Korea, all gunning for a shot to become the first WPT champion to be crowned on the continent of Asia. Emerging from the scrum as the chip leader was Zhu Ya… Read more »
Don’t get confused. There are two major poker tournaments taking place in Prague right now: one is the “E”PT and one the “W”PT, so be sure you read your updates carefully. In this article, we are discussing the World Poker Tour (WPT) Prague Main Event, whose Day 1A concluded Sunday. It was a tiny first… Read more »
To cap off their festivities for 2013, the World Poker Tour has stepped out of the United States for two tournaments on completely different continents. One of those tournaments has wrapped up its first day of play while the second is in the middle of action as we speak. The inaugural WPT Korea, taking place… Read more »
After starting the final table with the chip lead, poker pro Dan Smith was able to parlay that position into his first championship on the World Poker Tour last night at the Bellagio’s Doyle Brunson Five Diamond World Poker Classic. Coming into the final table, Smith’s lead over Australian poker legend Gary Benson was a… Read more »
It was another nine hour day at the 2013 World Poker Tour Five Diamond World Poker Classic Main Event on Tuesday and now we have our television final table. Just 21 players remained after Day 4, but with relatively large chip stacks and players who played cautiously to try to move up on the payout… Read more »
