Dempsey Wins WPT Bellagio

English poker player James Dempsey has won the World Poker Tour’s Doyle Brunson Five Diamond World Poker Classic.  He took the title on Sunday at the prestigious $10,00 buy-in tournament at the Bellagio casino.  Dempsey earned $821,612, by defeating a field of 413 players in the no-limit hold’em tournament.  The total prize pool for the [...]

Giannetti and Oboodi Win on WPT

Season ten of the World poker tour is now well underway, and two new players have earned the right to call themselves Champions.  Matt Giannetti and Bobby Oboodi have taken bracelets at WPT tournaments this week. The $3,500 buy-in WPT event at the Borgata has proven to be one of the highlights of this year’s [...]

WPT Atlantic City Action Heats Up

The Borgata poker Open is now down to the final table, and the action on the World Poker Tour circuit in general is continuing as the season starts to heat up this week.  The WPT Borgata Poker Open sees Bobby Oboodi taking the lead, holding 11 million chips and the prime seat on the Final [...]

Failla Wins WPT: Legends of Poker Main Event

Will Failla, one of the most interesting personalities in the poker tournament scene, has finally earned his first major title with a first place finish at the World Poker Tour’s Legends of Poker main event. Failla entered the final table of the $3,500 re-entry event as the chip leader, and did not let his lack [...]

Will Failla Leading WPT: Legends of Poker Main Event

Will Failla is leading the World poker Tour: Legends of Poker Main Event.  Failla is one of the more colourful characters in the tournament poker scene – he is outspoken, superstitious, and always entertaining, and has enjoyed a lot of success in the poker world – earning more than $2.1 million over the course of [...]

World Poker Tour: Legends of Poker Day 1b

Day 1b of the World poker Tour: Legends of Poker tournament at the Bicycle Casino has just concluded.  Today saw J.C. Tran take the lead, becoming the only player to hold more than 200,000 chips, and having an impressive lead over second place. The tournament has attracted an impressive 757 entrants thanks to a strong [...]

WPT Legends of Poker Day 1a

Season X of the World poker Tour Season has been running since the end of May.  The season has seen two events so far, although it didn’t reach the USA until earlier last week, when the WPT Legends of Poker –  one of the most eagerly awaited events of the year, kicked off at the [...]

WPT Seminole hard Rock Showdown Day 4

Day four of the World poker Tour Seminole Hard Rock Showdown saw the51 remaining players sit down for a solid day’s action, narrowing the field down to just the top 18 players. At the end of the day the chip leader was Blair Hinkle, who now holds 1.783 million in chips. The top 45 players [...]

WPT Seminole Hard Rock Day 3

Day 3 of the World poker Tour Seminole Hard Rock Showdown No Limit Hold’em Main Event has just concluded. The plan for the day was to play until the bubble burst, but that did not happen.  Instead, play closed with 51 players remaining.  The bubble is set at 45 players. When registration closed, the total [...]

Jason DeWitt Leading LA Poker Classic

Day 3 of the World poker Tour: LA Poker Classic has concluded.  The day ended with Jason DeWitt holding the chip leader position.  The money bubble popped on Day 3 as the group fell to sixty-three players remaining.  The top prize in the LA Poker classic is $1.6 million, but all of the remaining players [...]

World Poker Tour: Venice Begins

The World poker Tour: Venice began on the 3rd February.  The tournament will run until the 9th February, and is taking place at the Casino Di Venezia, in the palace of the Doge Vendremin Gabriele D’Annunzio. The Main Event of the World Poker Tour: Venice will be a EUR 3,300 buy-in tournament.  The organizers are [...]

WPT Southern Poker Championship Day 1

The World poker Tour calendar kicked off today with the start of the Southen Poker Championship at the Beau Rivage in Biloxi Mississippi.  The event, which has a $10,000 buy-in, saw 214 entrants this year – a slight increase on the previous year’s participation. Among the entrants were previous winners Bill Edler, Hoyt Corkins, and [...]

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