World Poker Tour Announces 2018 Schedule for Season XVII
Although they just wrapped up a highly successful Season XVI schedule, the World Poker Tour isn’t sitting back on its laurels. They recently announced the roster of events that will carry them through...
View ArticleSimon Lam Wins WPT Gardens Poker Festival Main Event as “The Master” Runs...
On Thursday night, poker player Simon Lam became the latest individual to etch their name of the WPT Champions’ Cup by winning the WPT Gardens Poker Festival in Los Angeles. The victory by Lam,...
View ArticleWorld Poker Tour Heads to Choctaw Casino to Continue Season XVIII Schedule
After a lengthy break for the World Series of Poker and a new stop for the tour in California, the World Poker Tour will head back to familiar ground beginning today. Friday marks the start of the WPT...
View Article2018 WPT Choctaw Day 1A: Viet Vo Takes Day 1A Lead as Guarantee Nearly Met
The World Poker Tour has settled down in Durant, OK, for the WPT Choctaw. Over the next few days, some of poker’s best and a host of Okies (and some Texans, maybe a few Jayhawks) will battle it out for...
View Article2018 WPT Choctaw Day 1B: 755 Entries Total After Day 1B, Lou Garza Overall...
While it is tough to look at a tournament that generates better than a $2.5 million prize pool as anything but a success, the reality is that the World Poker Tour’s stop at the Choctaw Casino Resort in...
View Article2018 WPT Choctaw Final Table Set, Brady Holiman Holds Sizable Edge
They are down to the final table in the World Poker Tour (WPT) Choctaw Main Event, as just six players remain from the original 755 player field. Going into Tuesday’s deciding day, Brady Holiman will...
View ArticleBrady Holiman Wins 2018 WPT Choctaw Main Event
Brady Holiman went wire-to-wire as the chip leader at the final table of the World Poker Tour (WPT) Choctaw Main Event Tuesday to win his first-ever WPT title as well as a first prize of nearly half a...
View ArticlePartypoker, World Poker Tour Agree to Four-Year Live Tourney Partnership
The World Poker Tour announced on Wednesday that it has inked a partnership with partypoker LIVE to host as many as seven events in Europe and Canada for the next four years. The first event in the...
View Article2018 WPT Borgata Poker Open Main Event – Gene Quinn Leads After Day 1
The World Poker Tour is back on the east coast of the United States this week with the WPT Borgata Poker Open. The Main Event got going on Sunday with the first of two Day 1 flights. There were 917...
View Article2018 WPT Borgata Poker Open Main Event Day 3: TK Miles Open Up Wide Lead as...
It was on to Day 2 of the World Poker Tour (WPT) Borgata Poker Open Main Event on Tuesday as the 490 survivors from the two starting flights came together to continue their advance to the money. Just...
View Article2018 WPT Borgata Poker Open Main Event: Final 24 Determined, Liam He in the Lead
The World Poker Tour has packed up the trucks to close out the summer and few could have chosen a better location. The WPT has landed in Atlantic City, NJ, and, in particular, the Borgata, for the 2018...
View ArticleErkut Yilmaz Wins WPT Borgata Poker Open as WPT Maryland Live! Event Begins
Defeating a table filled with local talent, Erkut Yilmaz was able to beat all comers to capture the championship of the World Poker Tour’s Borgata Poker Open on Friday night. Meanwhile, there’s no rest...
View Article2018 WPT Maryland Live! Main Event Day 1B: Paul Chang Takes Top Honors for...
The World Poker Tour’s stop at Maryland Live! for their $3500 Main Event has brought out a decent field for battle. Saturday’s Day 1B saw a sizeable number of runners emerge – and Paul Chang take the...
View Article2018 WPT Maryland Live! Main Event Day 2: Andrew Crookston Moves to Front
Just 32 players are still alive at the 2018 World Poker Tour (WPT) Maryland at Live! Casino Main Event (is that as awkward to say as it is to write?) as the tournament heads into Day 3. Andrew...
View Article2018 WPT Maryland Live! Final Table Set, Will Givens Sets Pace
The six-handed final table has been set at the 2018 World Poker Tour (WPT) Maryland at Live! Casino Main Event (can we just call it WPT Maryland?) after 548 players have been sent to the rail. Leading...
View ArticleTony Ruberto Wins WPT Maryland Live! Main Event
Tony Ruberto came inches away from a World Poker Tour title in August (does that even make sense?), finishing fourth in the WPT Choctaw Main Event. There are people in this world who have made a final...
View ArticleWPT Partners With Vince Van Patten’s Film, Walk to Vegas
One of the things I find both idiotic and painfully endearing about poker players is how they are seemingly willing to make prop bets on anything at any time. World Poker Tour television host Vince Van...
View ArticleWPT, partypoker LIVE Announce New Joint Tour Stops
In late August, the World Poker Tour (WPT) and partypoker LIVE announced a deal in which the WPT would host as many as seven partypoker LIVE events in Europe and Canada for the next four years. The...
View Article2018 WPT Montreal Main Event Day 1A – Marius Kikinezhdi Leads Small Opening...
The World Poker Tour is back to it, as the WPT Montreal Main Event got going on Monday with the first of three starting flights. This is the first official stop that is co-branded with the WPT and...
View Article2018 WPT Montreal Main Event Day 1B – $5M Still a Ways Away
The World Series of Poker Europe Main Event may be the focus of the poker world at the moment, but let’s not forget that there is a major World Poker Tour event going on right now, too. The WPT...
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