World Poker Tour Announces Final Table Play Dates for Three Delayed Tournaments
For the past year, three of the biggest tournaments on the World Poker Tour have existed in a sort of limbo. Because of the shutdowns from the COVID-19 pandemic, these three tournaments have not been...
View Article2021 WPT Venetian: Darren Dirksen, Joseph Cheong Top Day 1A Leaderboard
The World Poker Tour is back in action again, this time stepping back into the familiar stomping grounds of Las Vegas. The Venetian is playing host to the WPT Venetian for the next few days, marking...
View Article2021 WPT Venetian: More Than 500 Players Enter Day 1B, Dustin Dirksen Still...
The World Poker Tour continues forward into the “brave new world” of post-COVID tournament poker, and it seems the rest of the poker community is ready to come along. The sheer number of players ended...
View Article2021 WPT Venetian: WPT Champion James Carroll Takes Overall Lead on Day 2
The World Poker Tour’s successful return in 2021 has been further demonstrated by their current stop at The Venetian in Las Vegas. The WPT Venetian had nearly 1000 entries for their $5000 Main Event...
View ArticleJames Carroll Leads Remaining 32 Players After WPT Venetian Day 2
Competitive battle at the top The World Poker Tour (WPT) Venetian moves into its third day on Monday with just 32 players remaining. Leading the charge into the home stretch is James Carroll with...
View ArticleJoe McKeehen Leads WPT Venetian Final Table
The World Poker Tour (WPT) Venetian Main Event has reached its final table, with six players left to vie for the title. Leading the charge toward the three-quarters of a million dollars first prize is...
View ArticleQing Liu Wins 2021 WPT Venetian Main Event
This is already the week of Qing Liu’s poker life. It could get legendary today. Last night, Liu won his first World Poker Tour title, outdueling 2015 World Series of Poker Main Event champ Joe...
View ArticleMarkus Gonsalves Takes Down Long Delayed 2020 WPT Gardens Poker Championship
In what has probably been the longest poker tournament in the history of the game, Markus Gonsalves captured his first major championship in taking down the long-delayed 2020 World Poker Tour Gardens...
View ArticleAllied Esports: World Poker Tour Friendship Ended With Element Partners, Now...
When you have two invitations to the prom When Element Partners agreed to acquire the World Poker Tour from Allied Esports in January, the companies said that they expected the deal to close later...
View ArticleAllied Esports Accepts Improved Element Partners $90.5 Million Offer for...
Looks like the sale to Element is back on Something fascinating happened on Monday. I was proven wrong. I know, I know, impossible, but it happened. Last week, when Bally’s Corporation made a new...
View ArticleBack and Forth They Go: Bidding War Continues for World Poker Tour
Look, I don’t know what the World Poker Tour is actually worth, but Allied Esports Entertainment is certainly wringing all it can out of it. On Tuesday, the company announced that it once again going...
View ArticleWorld Poker Tour Enters World of NFTs Beginning April 18
It is one of the biggest new trends in the digital world. The offerings of “non fungible tokens,” or NFTs, has been one of the most unique offerings that have come into the collectables market in the...
View ArticleWPT Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown Starts Tomorrow
It seems like it has gone on forever, but Season XVIII of the World Poker Tour will finally come to a close over the next week. The WPT Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown will begin tomorrow, the final...
View Article2021 WPT Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown: Record Shattered as Nearly 2500...
Everyone in the poker community figured it would be big, but I do not believe that anyone thought it would be this big. Two Day Ones are in the books at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in...
View ArticleFinal Table Set for WPT Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown
After such an exciting start, it almost seemed to be a shame that they had to interrupt the tournament. Alas, they did – the final table of the 2021 World Poker Tour Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown...
View Article2021 WPT Online Series Begins Friday
The second annual* WPT Online Series kicks off on Friday on partypoker and organizers have made it bigger than last year’s. Over the course of two and a half weeks, running May 14 to June 2, the 2021...
View ArticleVeerab Zakarian Wins Long-Delayed 2020 WPT Borgata Winter Poker Open Main Event
Veerab Zakarian won the 2020 World Poker Tour (WPT) Borgata Winter Poker Open Sunday night, claiming a first prize of $674,840. If it sounds weird that he won a 2020 tournament nearly halfway through...
View ArticleBalakrishna Patur Wins 2020 WPT L.A. Poker Classic, Postponed WPT Final...
Balakrishna Patur won the 2020 World Poker Tour (WPT) L.A. Poker Classic Monday night and now we are all caught up. The WPT L.A. Poker Classic was the last of the three delayed WPT final tables that...
View ArticleBrek Schutten Earns Championship of Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown, Brian...
The ribbon has been placed on what has been the longest season in the history of the World Poker Tour. Brek Schutten earned the championship of the delayed final table of the 2021 WPT Seminole Hard...
View ArticleWorld Poker Tour Announces Remaining 2021 North American Main Tour Dates
Out of the house, into the poker room Summer unofficially began this week with the start of June, though it doesn’t officially began for about three weeks. With the United States beginning to emerge...
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