The World Poker Tour is enjoying its stay at Wynn Las Vegas this month. After a plethora of events that shattered guarantees, the WPT has reached its pinnacle tournament, the 2023 WPT World Championship, and is through the first two of four flights. One of its preliminary tournaments, the WPT Prime Championship, has reached its… Read more »
The most anticipated poker tournament of the year outside of the World Series of Poker Main Event is upon us. The WPT World Championship began Tuesday with the first of four Day 1 flights and after Day 1A, Jeff Hakim is the chip leader with 998,000 chips. Two players are close behind: Adekunle Olonoh with… Read more »
It was a chance for a hugely overlooked part of the poker community to shine and, when given the chance, the women of poker put on a great show. Friday night at the World Poker Tour World Championship festivities, the WPT Ladies’ Championship took center stage (and streaming rights) as the season-ending schedule for the… Read more »
The 2023 World Series of Poker Paradise is underway in the Bahamas and, after a tentative start, the money has started to flow. Two events are in the books, which barely brought out enough players to crack the guarantees that were placed on the tournaments. That has changed with the first “big money” tournament of… Read more »
The World Poker Tour held its penultimate stop of the 2023 tournament poker season last night, the final table of the 2023 WPT Seminole Rock n’ Roll Poker Open Main Event in Hollywood, FL. In what was a brisk 100-plus hands, Istvan Briski emerged victorious over Rayan Chamas to claim his first major championship. In… Read more »
Just six players remain in the WPT Seminole Rock ‘N’ Roll Poker Open Main Event, with the winner to be determined Wednesday afternoon. Enjoying a substantial chip lead is Istvan Briski, whose 23.975 million chips are more than double those of his closest competitor. But while Briski has the chips, a few other players have… Read more »
In today’s poker world, it is not unusual for players to have to make decisions regarding what tournaments they want to take part in. Rare is it, however, that the tournaments in question are of such luminous status that people will make note of who is going where. That’s what we’re looking at when it… Read more »
In breaking down the Player of the Year race for both the CardPlayer Magazine and the Global Poker Index, it did cross our minds – how is the race for women in poker? There is only one “official” Ladies’ Player of the Year race, and it is a doozy as plenty of notable names are… Read more »
Frederic Normand parlayed a $580 satellite win into a World Poker Tour title as he won the WPT bestbet Scramble in Jacksonville, Florida on Tuesday for what was easily the biggest cash of his career. The $351,650 first prize was about double his previous career best. That previous best came in what was a bittersweet… Read more »
As the poker world gears up for the upcoming WPT World Championship to finish out the year, there are still a couple stops on the World Poker Tour schedule to finish. The first, WPT bestbet Scramble, wraps up today at bestbet Jacksonville. The six-handed final table is just getting underway as the players compete for… Read more »
Two weeks of live streams The World Poker Tour has announced the live streaming schedule for the upcoming WPT World Championship. Starting December 7, viewers will get 14 days of streams, the first half of which are mostly cash games, with the back end leaning heavily on the headline WPT World Championship tournament. “We developed… Read more »
Main Tour The World Poker Tour has announced the first half of its Season XXII schedule, comprised of four Main Tour stops and seven WPT Prime stops. Seasons used to overlap calendar years, but the WPT finally changed this last year – perhaps nudged in this direction by the COVID-19 pandemic – now keeping each… Read more »
We’re coming into the final quarter of the 2023 Player of the Year races on the tournament poker circuit, and it looks as if the major leaderboards have become a two-man race. While Bin Weng has asserted himself to take over the lead on both boards, “Nacho” Barbero has been able to keep close to… Read more »
Quite some time ago – in fact, it was one of the first articles I ever wrote as a poker journalist – I talked about how the current tournament poker world was beginning to encroach on itself. At that time, the World Poker Tour and the World Series of Poker were beginning to square off… Read more »
If you are listing the important moments in the history of poker, the development of the World Poker Tour would have to be a part of that list. Founded back in 2002 by Steve Lipscomb and backed by billionaire entrepreneur Lyle Berman, the WPT has gone on over the last twenty years to become one… Read more »
It is difficult to find a player that has been on a better heater of late than Bin Weng. In May, Weng made two World Poker Tour final tables, winning the WPT Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown’s playout at the HyperX Sports Arena at the Luxor in Las Vegas. Last night, Weng added to his… Read more »
If you’re thinking that the World Series of Poker is the only game in Las Vegas, you’d be highly mistaken. The World Poker Tour has been running its “One Drop” series of events at the Wynn Las Vegas and their “Everyone for OneDrop” event has proven to be highly successful. They are through Day Two… Read more »
It seems like the 2023 World Series of Poker Championship Event has been going on forever – and there are still four more days to go – but, in reality, it has only been in action for the past ten days. Day Six is now in the books, with 49 players left on the battlegrounds,… Read more »
Phil Hellmuth has done it again. In one of the top moments of the 2023 World Series of Poker, the 1989 World Champion once again etched his name into the record books, winning his seventeenth WSOP bracelet in Event #72, the $10,000 Super Turbo Bounty No Limit Hold’em tournament. At a table that included another… Read more »
It is one of the largest poker tournaments in the history of the game. The $1 million buy-in Big One for One Drop not only revolutionized the “High Roller” poker world but also upped the game for charitable works. Now the same game is coming back, albeit in a different venue, but it still should… Read more »
In the 21st century, our digital lives have become almost as important as our physical ones. We’ve begun to lean on many applications – or “apps” – that borderline a dependency (when is the last time that someone just DROVE somewhere without asking for directions?). It is the wave of the future, but there are… Read more »
It was a tale of two halves of a tournament. At the beginning of the final day of the World Poker Tour’s Gardens Poker Championship, the start of day chip leader Ryan Salunga was the dominant force on the table, seemingly taking players out at will. After the final table reached three players, however, Ky… Read more »
The world has not been wanting for poker action in the leadup to the 2023 World Series of Poker. The World Poker Tour, as they have for the past few years, has been holding three of its more recent events at the HyperX Arena at Luxor in Las Vegas ahead of the WSOP, and the… Read more »
The $5,250 World Poker Tour (WPT) Gardens Poker Championship Main Event moved on to Day 2 after two starting flights. Of the 346 entries (one re-entry was allowed per flight), 126 still have chips in front of them heading into Tuesday’s action. Leading the way is Girish Reknar with 459,500 chips. Unlike many large tournaments,… Read more »
The poker world was stunned late on Sunday night when word came down that one of the genuine legends of the world of poker, the man who basically taught the world how to play the game of Texas Hold’em, and whose very name was synonymous with the sport of poker had passed away. On Sunday… Read more »
