The 2018 World Poker Tour Borgata Winter Poker Open Main Event steamed onward on Wednesday, with the final three tables being determined and Steven Greenberg taking over the chip lead with a 3.753 million chip stack. Day 3 of the tournament saw 159 players returning to the tables at the Borgata in Atlantic City, NJ,… Read more »
Originally set as a singular event, the World Poker Tour recently announced that the third running of the WPT Tournament of Champions, this year being held for the first time at ARIA in Las Vegas, would be joined by a new tournament previously unscheduled as well as other preliminary tournaments. What is now being called… Read more »
Battling through one of the larger fields during the Season XVI schedule, poker professional Darryll Fish broke through with his first ever major tour victory in winning the World Poker Tour Lucky Hearts Poker Open at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Hollywood, FL, last night. The hometown favorite at the final table,… Read more »
Not content to sit on their laurels of an outstanding Season XVI, the World Poker Tour has added another event to the roster for the current season. After initially being off the schedule, the WPT Amsterdam will be back for another run from the top pros in Europe just prior to the end of season… Read more »
The penultimate day of the 2017 World Poker Tour’s Five Diamond World Poker Classic is set for play on Sunday afternoon at the Bellagio in Las Vegas. After almost a week of play Sean Perry, the son of poker professional Ralph Perry, sits in the first slot on the leaderboard, but Ryan Tosoc (making his… Read more »
Day 3 of the World Poker Tour’s Five Diamond World Poker Classic at the Bellagio in Las Vegas is in the books and, for the first time in the tournament, Brandon Meyers isn’t atop the leaderboard. While he does lurk down the ladder a bit, Blake Bohn has taken over the lead with the money… Read more »
Continuing to hold court over the throng of players still in the tournament, poker professional Brandon Meyers continued to hold the lead as Day 2 of the 2017 World Poker Tour Five Diamond World Poker Classic concluded. At the same time, those that are left in the event found out what they were playing for… Read more »
In one of the final preliminary events (if you can call a tournament with a six-figure buy in a “preliminary”) before the start of the World Poker Tour Five Diamond World Poker Classic Main Event next week, Dan Smith vanquished fellow poker pro Daniel Negreanu to win the $100,000 Super High Roller on Friday night.… Read more »
With roughly six weeks to go in the tournament poker season, there is virtually only one question left: can Bryn Kenney, who has led the various Player of the Year races since the start of the year, hold onto those leads as the year comes to a close? On the CardPlayer Magazine Player of the… Read more »
Bringing the second largest stack to the final tabl3e on Thursday, Maxime Heroux earned his first major tournament poker championship in winning the World Poker Tour Montreal at the Playground Poker Club last night. Heroux came to the final table with a 5.345 million stack, good for second place on the leaderboard to start the… Read more »
In an article she wrote for The Guardian in the United Kingdom, British poker semi-professional Victoria Coren-Mitchell compared 10-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner Phil Ivey to one of the living legends of tennis, Roger Federer. Interestingly enough, Ivey is currently prepping for a return to the tournament poker world in 2018 that he… Read more »
The World Poker Tour recently released the remainder of its Season XVI schedule and, for the most part, the usual suspects were a part of the roster of events. There was one quite noticeable absence, however, as the Bay 101 Shooting Star was not in its usual spot between the WPT L. A. Poker Classic… Read more »
Doing something that only seven men had done before him, Art Papazyan was able to vanquish a tough final table to emerge with his second World Poker Tour championship of the year in winning the WPT Maryland Live! Main Event. Papazyan was a part of a tight five-man pack at the top of the leaderboard… Read more »
The World Poker Tour carnival has pulled into its latest stop, Maryland Live! Casino in Hanover, and the crowds have come for the show. The $3500 WPT Maryland Live! Main Event has Day 1A in the books with Zachary Donovan holding the chip lead after a day of play. Even though there is late registration… Read more »
For the third consecutive year, the World Poker Tour has backed up the production trucks at Maryland Live! in Hanover for an event on their Season XVI schedule. Starting at noon today, the $3500 buy in Main Event becomes the focal point of the players gathered in Maryland. Two Day Ones (Day 1B is scheduled… Read more »
Coming from the second lowest stack to start the final table, Guo Liang Chen battled through a difficult final table to capture his largest tournament score of his career, the championship of the 2017 World Poker Tour Borgata Poker Open. Chen had his work cut out for him from the start of action on Friday… Read more »
The World Poker Tour has pulled into the Borgata in Atlantic City for their latest event, the Borgata Poker Open, and it has once again shown to be one of their bigger events of this Season XVI schedule or otherwise. Coming into Wednesday’s action, the 1132 entry field had been whittled down to 117 players;… Read more »
In an e-mail sent to customers on Monday, the World Poker Tour's Casino and Poker Room referred its players to InterPoker. The WPT's poker room is scheduled to cease operations this Thursday, November 20th. Read more »
Defending WPT Player of the Year Jonathan Little captures the championship of the World Poker Tour's World Poker Finals at Foxwoods, defeating Jonathan Jaffe in the longest heads up battle in the history of the WPT to take the title. Read more »
Coming into Day Five of the World Poker Tour's latest stop in Connecticut, the World Poker Finals at Foxwoods, six men were guaranteed that they would reach the final table. Four unfortunate souls, although taking home a nice payday, would not be able to say that they officially reached that elusive WPT final table goal. Read more »
With 33 players left at the World Poker Tour's World Poker Finals at Foxwoods, Day Four figured to either be a quick day of play in getting to the final nine players or a long grind of five levels of play. By the time play had been suspended for the evening, Full Tilt Poker pro Mike Matusow had emerged as the leader of the event with ten players left. Read more »
After the furious action from Friday, where nearly 160 players were eliminated, Saturday at the World Poker Tour's World Poker Finals did not disappoint. Many in the field wondered if Jonathan Jaffe could sustain his chip lead and drive his way to the final table. Read more »
With 249 of the original 412 players left in the field at the World Poker Tour's World Poker Finals at Foxwoods, it looked as though they would need quite a bit of time to work down to the final table, which is scheduled for Tuesday. Read more »
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 »
I don't get the opportunity to play a lot of poker these days. I'm busy as a commentator with the World Poker Tour, involved with NLOP.com and Party Poker, but most importantly, I'm a new father (Ty Michael Sexton is ten weeks old!). Read more »
