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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
As we move through life, we have good days and bad days, good weeks and bad weeks. For me, a good week is usually one in which I get my work done quickly every day, have a chance to relax a bit, and my wife and kids have happy, healthy, life-work balances (the school year… Read more »
Brandon Guzman leads the World Poker Tour (WPT) Choctaw Main Event heading into Monday’s Day 3, as just 28 players remain. Holding 3.600 million chips, he is just one of two players with over 3 million; the other is Alex Foxen, who has 3.380 million. Just behind the two chip leaders is Bing Weng with… Read more »
Bin Weng has got to be lamenting that the World Poker Tour (WPT) Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown Championship is one of the WPT tournaments whose final table will be held in Las Vegas because he is crushing it. With 46.050 million chips, Weng has more than the next two players combined; the first prize… Read more »
The World Poker Tour (WPT) Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown Championship event is down to just 16 players as the tournament heads into its penultimate day on Tuesday. Sridhar Sangannagari is the chip leader after Day 3, holding a stack of 18.125 million chips. Only two other players – James Anderson (16.925 million) and Rafael… Read more »
After two Day Ones that stretched the limits of the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino’s tournament floor, the World Poker Tour’s Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown played through Day Two on Sunday in Hollywood, FL. They were able to get the money bubble popped from the 287 players who were fortunate enough to earn… Read more »
Yesterday in our preview of the 2023 World Poker Tour stop at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Hollywood, we mentioned how the players ALWAYS flock to the Florida properties. Day 1A of the WPT Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown demonstrated this fact, busting the guarantee in only one day in setting a… Read more »
We are only a month away from the 2023 World Series of Poker, so it is only natural that the two major tournament poker circuits get in their last action before everyone goes to “Summer Camp” in Las Vegas. On Friday, the World Poker Tour will open action on their latest trek to Florida. Later… Read more »
Scott Eskenazi began the WPT Rolling Thunder final table nearly tied for the shortest stack with just one-fifth the chips of chip leader Alejandro Jauregui, but came roaring back to win the whole thing for his first World Poker Tour title. Eskenazi quickly accumulated chips, thanks to a double-up through Tony Dunst, to bring himself… Read more »
The effort to give people around the world access to safe drinking water has taken a step forward, as the World Poker Tour announced a partnership with the One Drop Foundation. “WPT has always committed to giving back to those in need both locally and globally,” said WPT CEO Adam Pliska in a press release.… Read more »
In one of the shortest World Poker Tour final tables we have seen, Eliot Hudon defeated Benny Glaser heads-up to win the inaugural WPT World Championship and an incredible $4,146,400 first prize. As it would be for most people, it is by far the largest cash of Hudon’s career – he had previously won just… Read more »
The 2022 WPT World Championship at Wynn Las Vegas has its final table, but right now, it should be called the “Benny Glaser” show, as Glaser has a sizeable chip lead with just six players remaining. Holding 133.6 million chips, he is about 53 million ahead of his closest competitor, and has almost as many… Read more »
There’s something to be said for saving the best for last. The World Poker Tour has brought the end of their 2022 tournament season to the Wynn Las Vegas and simultaneously brought back a classic event (it was last officially held in 2017). The 2022 WPT World Championship has been revived and, whether it was… Read more »
