The World Poker Tour has packed up the trucks for their first foray into Florida for their Season XVIII schedule. The place to be this Thanksgiving weekend may not be the malls but very well could be the grounds of the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Hollywood, FL, as the WPT Seminole Rock… Read more »
One of the toughest things to come up with when programming a network – whether it is terrestrial, cable or streaming – is adequate material to put on your channel. In the case of PokerGO, there’s only so many tournament poker replays that can be put on the air. With that in mind, the streaming… Read more »
It is arguable that the tournament poker scene has never been more popular than today. The World Series of Poker Championship Event reached numbers that haven’t been seen since the mid-Aughts, it seems that stops on the World Poker Tour are consistently breaking previous records and even lower scale events (daily tournaments) seem to be… Read more »
It may seem like the World Poker Tour has some sort of poker tournament going on every week and it looks like they would like that to be even more frequent. This week the WPT announced that there will be two new stops for poker players to enjoy in 2020. One will be on the… Read more »
Geoffrey Hum won the World Poker Tour (WPT) Montreal Main Event this week, the first WPT title of his career. For his victory, hum won $380,648 or CAD $500,000. Winners of major poker tournaments are usually pretty humble as they bask in the glow of their success, but Hum has got to be one of… Read more »
Poker is a game that has been around for at least the past century or so (OK, you can go back to the 17th century and find a form in the game as nas from India, but that’s another discussion for another time). Over those years, there’s been moves to change the game, to make… Read more »
Josh Adkins won the World Poker Tour (WPT) bestbet Bounty Scramble on Tuesday, the first WPT victory of his poker career. For the win, Adkins banked $331,480. What was perhaps the most amazing thing about Adkins’ run was that it was not only his first WPT title, but it was the very first time he… Read more »
After three tournament days of play (four calendar days), the World Poker Tour (WPT) bestbet Bounty Scramble has gotten down to its six-handed final table. Leading the way going into Tuesday’s action is Josh Kay with 4.075 million chips. Kay is a local of sorts, living in Delray Beach, Florida, four hours south of bestbet… Read more »
A smaller than expected field came out for the second of two-Day Ones on Saturday at the WPT bestbet Bounty Scramble at bestbet Jacksonville. Perhaps because of the start of the World Series of Poker Europe (which begins on Sunday), the 195 entries that came out on Saturday barely outpaced the 154 that rolled out… Read more »
The World Poker Tour has moved to the sunny climes of Jacksonville, FL, and the bestbet Jacksonville card room for their WPT bestbet Bounty Scramble. Now the only bounty tournament on the WPT schedule – the Bay 101 Shooting Star used to be the other until it was dropped from the WPT schedule in 2017… Read more »
In what turned out to be a rapid final table, the chances at World Poker Tour history for pros Brian Altman and Anthony Zinno were denied. Instead of seeing a name etched again on the WPT Champions’ Cup, newcomer Nitis Udornpim came off a short stack to snatch the title away and become the newest… Read more »
Last week, I wrote an editorial about how there wasn’t a need for a Rounders 2 in the Poker Cinematic Universe (or the PCU, which you can say you heard it here first!). One thing that is timeless, however, are documentaries, as seen by the recent Ken Burns opus Country Music (well worth the time… Read more »
The World Poker Tour (WPT) Maryland at Live! Casino Main Event final table has been set and for the first time all tournament, Brian Altman is not the chip leader at the end of a day. That’s not to say he’s in bad shape, though, as Altman is still in a solid second position going… Read more »
Just 51 players remain in the World Poker Tour (WPT) Maryland at Live! Casino Main Event after Day 2 with Brian Altman, the chip leader going into the day, still in the number one spot. It’s shaping up to be a great contest down the stretch as Altman is trailed closely by Jeffrey Colpitts. Altman… Read more »
The two starting flights of the World Poker Tour (WPT) Maryland at Live! Casino Main Event are in the books and Brian Altman, the Day 1A leader, is still in the pole position (and as I have commented before, yes, it is “Maryland at Live! Casino, however awkward that is). Rajasekar Govindan came out on… Read more »
The first of two-Day Ones is in the books for the World Poker Tour’s Maryland Live! Main Event and it looks like it is going to be a good one. At the end of Day 1A, a WPT Champions’ Club member, Brian Altman, powered his way through the field of 217 entries to be the… Read more »
After the second ever final table deal at a World Poker Tour event – after years of claiming that there weren’t any “deals” in a WPT tournament – Executive Tournament Director Matt Savage has admitted there is a problem. In an attempt to correct this issue, Savage has opened up discussion on the subject on both… Read more »
Season XVIII of the World Poker Tour rolls along (after the fiasco at the Borgata) with a stop that has slowly become one of the favorites of the tournament pros. The WPT will set up shop beginning today at Maryland Live! in Landover, MD, for a $1.5 million guaranteed prize pool Main Event (NOT like… Read more »
The World Poker Tour’s stop at the Borgata Poker Open came to an end late Friday night, but to call it an ending that was deserving of one of the marquee events on the tour’s schedule would be a stretch. After five days of action that started with 1156 entries, three men – Donald Maloney,… Read more »
If the World Poker Tour has a tournament with a monstrous field, you can usually figure that it is the Borgata in Atlantic City that is responsible (the other is the Seminole Hard Rock in Florida). The 2019 WPT Borgata Poker Open has proven to be another sizeable field as, after Day 3, the 1156… Read more »
The 2019 World Poker Tour (WPT) Borgata Poker Open Main Event is into Day 3 as the survivors from the first two starting flights came together for Day 2 on Tuesday. Leading the remaining 145 players is Jonathan Jaffe with 1.035 million chips. Just one other player goes into Day 3 with more than a… Read more »
Day 1B of the World Poker Tour (WPT) Borgata Poker Open Main is in the books and, as expected, the field for the second starting flight dwarfed that of the first. A total of 707 entries were booked on Monday; added to the 271 on Sunday brings the entire field to 978 so far. Registration… Read more »
The World Poker Tour (WPT) Borgata Poker Open Main Event kicked off on Sunday with the first of two starting flights. 271 entries were tallied on the day, though expect loads more on Monday. Leading the 129 survivors into Day 2 is Mukharji Uppalapati with 252,400 chips. The Borgata Poker Open is one of the… Read more »
Yesterday The Stars Group, the ownership behind the monolithic PokerStars in the online poker world, announced some of the changes in their 2020 PokerStars Players’ Championship (PSPC) that will come up next August in Barcelona. Buried in the depths of that interview, PokerStars has announced that, after a 15-year run, that the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure… Read more »
If you had One shot Or one opportunity To seize everything you ever wanted In one moment Would you capture it Or just let it slip? Eminem, “Lose Yourself” The lyrical poetry of Eminem is appropriate in the case of poker player Aaron Van Blarcum. In his first ever shot at a World Poker Tour… Read more »
