The king is dead, long live the king! On Tuesday, the World Poker Tour announced that it is retiring the WPTDeepStacks brand, replacing it with a new splinter tour, WPT Prime. WPT Prime will debut this spring with three events in Asia. “Our continued efforts to improve the WPT live tournament experience will benefit more… Read more »
Sung Joo Hyun came from the bottom half of the final table to win the WPTDeepStacks Venetian Main Event Monday and the $208,335 first prize. The South Korean with the refreshingly non-poker Hendon Mob profile picture upped his lifetime recorded live tournament earnings to over half a million dollars. Going into the eight-handed final table,… Read more »
The World Poker Tour (WPT) announced on Tuesday that it is taking WPTDeepStacks events to the Spanish and French iterations of partypoker for the first time. The festivities begin this coming weekend on April 5th and will run through April 20th. “WPTDeepStacks and partypoker are bringing wonderful new tournaments for online players in France and… Read more »
Amid the current worldwide outbreak of the COVID-19 virus, many countries, cities and even individual businesses have announced how they are handling the situation. The world of poker is feeling the effects of these shutdowns, with casinos in Las Vegas shutting down sports books and poker rooms and individual tournaments coming to a standstill. One… Read more »
Dimitar Blazhev was crowned the champion of the WPTDeepStacks Philippines Main Event early this morning, winning PHP 4,812,000 ($95,181). The tournament, part of the World Poker Tour (WPT) Asia Pacific, had a PHP 75,000 ($1,500) and generated a PHP 22,523,400 ($445,513) prize pool with 344 entries. This is just the fifth recorded live tournament cash… 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 »
