World Poker Tour news
The World Poker Tour (WPT) announced its end-of-season schedule yesterday, a lineup which will feature seven stops in 2014. All seven of the tour stops will be in the United States: two in Atlantic City, two in California, and three in Florida, which is quickly becoming a poker hotbed. The first stop of the new… Read more »
Making their new poker tournaments series a truly international event, the World Poker Tour announced that the inaugural season of WPT Alpha8 – their high stakes tournament poker series – will journey outside of the United States later this month and in early 2014. After making its debut with the WPT Alpha8 Florida event last… Read more »
In an outstanding heads up battle, Anthony Zinno came from the middle of the pack to defeat Vanessa Selbst to take down the championship of the World Poker Tour’s Borgata Poker Open on Friday night. Zinno came to the final table with the audacious task of toppling the two chip leaders, Selbst and overall chip… Read more »
After battling through one of the largest tournaments in the history of the organization, the final six players were determined at the World Poker Tour’s Borgata Poker Open in Atlantic City early on Friday morning. 36 players came to the felt on Thursday afternoon with the task of working down to the WPT six handed… Read more »
The 591 survivors from the first two starting days came together to battle it out on Day 2 of the 2013 World Poker Tour (WPT) Borgata Poker Open Main Event Tuesday and when the chips were bagged and tagged at the end of the night, just 174 players were left standing (or sitting, as the… Read more »
The second starting flight of the 2013 World Poker Tour (WPT) Borgata Poker Open Main Event was completed Monday and, as expected, there was a fantastic turnout. 813 players registered for Day 1B, more than double the number of runners the tournament fielded on Day 1A. Paul Volpe bagged the most chips – 231,850 –… Read more »
The World Poker Tour (WPT) continues its stint in the States this week with the WPT Borgata Poker Open Main Event in Atlantic City. The $3,500 tournament features two starting flights and will run through Friday. Sunday’s Day 1A saw 376 players register and just 166 make it all the way through still holding chips.… Read more »
In the finale at the Bicycle Casino in Bell Gardens, CA, last night, Vanessa Rousso took down the World Poker Tour’s Ladies’ Night invitational tournament for charity while the poker community also bade farewell to WTP anchor Kimberly Lansing. The players in the tournament – Rousso, Lansing, Liz Lieu, Lily Kiletto, Jessica Dawley and LIPS… Read more »
Coming from the middle of the pack, Jordan Cristos outlasted veteran poker professional Dan Heimiller to take his first major championship at the 2013 World Poker Tour Legends of Poker at the Bicycle Casino in Bell Gardens, CA, late last night. At the start of the day, it didn’t look like it would be these… Read more »
The televised final table of the 2013 World Poker Tour (WPT) Legends of Poker Main Event has been set and it looks to be a very competitive one. Leading the charge heading into Wednesday is Ryan Goindoo with 5.57 million chips. While he is the only player with more than 5 million chips, two more… Read more »
Day 3 of the 2013 World Poker Tour (WPT) Legends of Poker Main Event began with 71 players. It ended with just 15. The chip leader going into Monday, Dan Heimeller, is still in contention, bagging up 2.155 million chips, but it was Patrick Karschamroon that did work on Labor Day, topping the field at… Read more »
The survivors from the three starting flights came together in a unified Day 2 on Sunday at the 2013 World Poker Tour (WPT) Legends of Poker Main Event. They were joined by 47 more registrants who took tournament organizers up on the opportunity for a “last chance” re-entry prior to the start of yesterday’s play.… Read more »
After a flurry of activity on Saturday, the World Poker Tour’s stop at the Bicycle Casino in Bell Gardens, CA, for the Legends of Poker smashed through last year’s total entries, finally ending at 669 buy ins. Along the way, a new overall leader for the three Day Ones was crowned in Fabrice Touli. Even… Read more »
The World Poker Tour’s stop at the Bicycle Casino in Bell Gardens, CA, for the 2013 Legends of Poker wrapped up their second Day One on Friday, expanding the field by another 200 entries to bring the total field within shot of last year’s final numbers. The $3700 ($200 juice) tournament brought back many players… Read more »
The World Poker Tour kicked off its first event of Season XII on Thursday, with a smallish Day 1A field invading the Bicycle Casino in Bell Gardens, CA, for one of the stalwarts on the tour, the WPT Legends of Poker. With three Day Ones (and the ability to re-enter the event on subsequent Day… Read more »
In one of the rare feats in the tournament poker world, Russia’s Alexey Rybin completed what he started in going wire-to-wire in winning the World Poker Tour’s inaugural Season XII stop at the bWin WPT Merit Cyprus Classic late last night (U. S. time). Rybin led a contingent of Russians who took up half of… Read more »
Alexey Rybin is right where he has been for the entirety of the 2013 bwin World Poker Tour (WPT) Merit Cyprus Classic Main Event: on top. With 2.698 million chips, he holds the chip lead going into the six-handed final table by more than 1.1 million over his nearest competitor. Just one more day remains… Read more »
In February, one of the most popular “non-poker” poker celebrities, Dr. Jerry Buss, passed away. The former owner of the Los Angeles Lakers had been battling cancer for quite some time, finally losing the battle at the age of 80. This Sunday, August 25th, the World Poker Tour Foundation will hold a tournament in his… Read more »
The first Main Event of the World Poker Tour (WPT) Season XII is winding down as just fourteen players remain after Day 3 of the bwin WPT Merit Cyprus Classic. Alexey Rybin leads the charge to the final table with 1,736,000 chips, more than half a million more than the closest competitor. With blinds and… Read more »
Already one of the elite international tours on the tournament poker calendar, the World Poker Tour announced yesterday the establishment of a new set of special “High Roller” events that should draw in the crème of the poker world for competition. The tour, to be called “WPT Alpha8,” will be a series of eight, $100,000… Read more »
After a nearly nine hour battle on the felt at the Bellagio in Las Vegas, David “Chino” Rheem was able to defeat Erick Lindgren to take down the World Poker Tour World Championship early this morning. Rheem came to the final table on Friday afternoon as the overwhelming chip leader with his 5.49 million stack,… Read more »
Battling from the middle of the pack at a final table that only paid three spots, David “Doc” Sands emerged as the champion of the World Poker Tour Super High Roller championship event at the Bellagio early Friday morning. 21 of the deepest pocketed pros stepped to the table on Tuesday and, after two days… Read more »
It has come down to the final day of the World Poker Tour Championship at the Bellagio in Las Vegas and it looks as though the player to beat is David “Chino” Rheem, who came to the felt on Wednesday with a dominant chip lead he will carry to the final table tomorrow. Eight men… Read more »
Day 5 of the 2013 World Poker Tour (WPT) World Championship should be one of the shorter days of a major tournament we have ever seen. Tuesday saw the field of the final Main Event of WPT Season XI narrowed from 24 to just eight, leaving only two more eliminations until the six-handed final table… Read more »
The most important tournament on the World Poker Tour (WPT), and thus the tour itself, is nearing its end. Day 3 of the 2013 WPT World Championship concluded Monday night as the field narrowed from 67 to just 24. It looked like it would be a fairly quick day as the eliminations sped along early… Read more »
