World Poker Tour news
In breaking news on Thursday, the World Poker Tour announced that it had signed an agreement with FullTiltPoker.net, the educational site owned and operated by Full Tilt Poker. The online poker room will receive title sponsorship to the 26 episodes that will air on Fox Sports Net as part of the WPT's seventh season. Read more »
The World Poker Tour kicked off action on Wednesday for its seventh visit to the World Poker Finals at Foxwoods Resort Casino in Connecticut and was greeted with a smaller than usual crowd. Read more »
While many in the poker world may be paying attention to the final table of the World Series of Poker Main Event, many top professional players and amateurs alike will be sidetracked by stepping up to the tables at the World Poker Tour's World Poker Finals in Connecticut on Wednesday. Read more »
Bertrand Grospellier, who is known in the online poker world as "Elky," controlled the final table of the World Poker Tour's Festa al Lago event, eliminating every person and holding more than a 15:1 chip lead when play was heads-up. Read more »
Team PokerStars Pro member Betrand "Elky" Grospellier leads the field entering the final table at the World Poker Tour's Festa al Lago tournament. The six-handed televised table kicks off this afternoon at 4:00pm Pacific Time from the Bellagio in Las Vegas. Read more »
The final 12 players in the World Poker Tour's Festa al Lago tournament have been determined and leading the way is Team PokerStars Pro member Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier, who holds 2.04 million chips, barely edging second place Odie Dardon's stack of 1.96 million. Read more »
On Thursday, the third day of play concluded from the Bellagio in Las Vegas, the site of the World Poker Tour's Festa al Lago. The $15,000 buy-in tournament attracted 368 players, creating the largest prize pool for the tournament ever. After Day 3 had concluded, Ryan Fair led the way with 1.3 million chips. Read more »
There were a total of 368 players who entered the World Poker Tour's Festa al Lago tournament. Although the size of the field was down in comparison to the last two WPT tournaments held, the prize pool set a new record for a Festa al Lago event due to the larger $15,000 buy-in. Read more »
The first of two starting days of the Festa al Lago was played out on Monday. Day 1B will kick off today, but sitting as the leader in the clubhouse is World Series of Poker bracelet winner Antonio "The Magician" Esfandiari, who holds 50% more chips than his next closest competitor. Read more »
World Poker Tour Enterprises, owner of the eponymous landmark poker tour since its inception seven years ago, announced on Friday that they will be closing their online poker room that has been in operation for slightly over two years. Read more »
Fresh off Glen Witmer's landmark win in the World Poker Tour's North American Poker Championship just a few days ago in Niagara Falls, the WPT is back in action beginning on Monday. This time, the Bellagio in Las Vegas is the site of the Festa al Lago. Read more »
With accomplished poker pros Gavin Smith, Kathy Liebert, and Marc Karam all seated at the final table of the World Poker Tour's North American Poker Championship (NAPC), few people likely gave 67 year-old Glen Witmer any shot at winning. Read more »
The final table of the World Poker Tour's North American Poker Championship (NAPC) will kick off at 4:00pm ET today. At it will be a pair of well-known pros, Gavin Smith and Kathy Liebert. Both will seek to make poker history at the final table. Read more »
At the World Poker Tour's North American Poker Championship (NAPC), Vivek Rajkumar is trying to do something that no other player has ever done on the WPT circuit: win back to back Main Event titles. Rajkumar, the champion of the WPT Borgata Poker Open, is the chip leader with 27 players remaining. Read more »
Hopefully Full Tilt Poker pro Gavin Smith made a prop bet that he would win the World Poker Tour's North American Poker Championship. At the NAPC, he sits as the chip leader heading into Day 3 on Tuesday with 405,900, edging Matt Matros' 383,800. Play resumes at 12:00 noon local time today. Read more »
By the time many workers across North America take their lunch breaks on Monday, the World Poker Tour North American Poker Championship (NAPC) will be well underway on Day 2, which kicks off at 12:00 noon local time. There were 166 players who coughed up the $10,300 CDN entry on Day 1C on Sunday, raising the overall field to 454. Read more »
Saturday marked the second of three starting days of the World Poker Tour's North American Poker Championship. In advance of Sunday's Day 1C, Jamie Rosen, who plays on PokerStars under the name "thecronic420," led the way with 196,300 chips on Day 1B, giving him 25% more than the next closest stack. Read more »
Day 1A of the World Poker Tour North American Poker Championship occurred on Friday and leading the pack after the conclusion of five levels of play was poker pro J.C. Tran. The World Series of Poker bracelet winner held 159,300 chips when the day concluded and now has two days to explore Niagara Falls in advance of Monday's Day 2. Read more »
Making its only trip outside of the continental U. S., the World Poker Tour's North American Poker Championship starts this Friday at Fallsview Casino Resort in Ontario, Canada. Read more »
Starting this Sunday, October 5th, viewers of Fox Sports Net will be able to watch members of ClubWPT, the World Poker Tour's subscription-based online poker room, battle it out on television. The series, which is called ClubWPT.com, will air at 4:00pm local time with an encore at 11:00pm. Read more »
In the fastest final table ever held on the World Poker Tour, Vivek Rajkumar, who is known as "Psyduck" in the online poker world, blazed to victory at the Borgata Poker Open in a mere 48 hands. In real time, determining the $1.4 million winner took less than three hours. Read more »
Heading into today's final table of the World Poker Tour's Borgata Poker Open, one man stands perched comfortably atop the field: Vivek Rajkumar. Known as "Psyduck" in the online poker world, Rajkumar has about 50% more chips than his next closest competitor. Read more »
On Wednesday, the final six players of the World Poker Tour's Borgata Poker Open will be determined. The field was narrowed down to 27 players late Tuesday night after starting with 516. Read more »
In Atlantic City, New Jersey, the World Poker Tour Borgata Poker Open wrapped up Day 2 on Monday. At the head of the class was online poker pro Thayer Rasmussen, who held 904,500 chips, which was about 70,000 more than his next closest competitor. Read more »
Monday marked Day 2 of the 2008 Borgata Poker Open. The World Poker Tour event, which is being held in Atlantic City, New Jersey, generated a field of 516 players, down from 560 in 2007. Read more »
