November 9, 2014
American player Darren Elias is enjoying a spectacularly rewarding year, having won the WPT Borgata Poker Open for $843,744 in September, and this weekend the WPT Caribbean main event for a further $128,680 despite having to overcome a 4 to 1 chip disadvantage in the heads up. Two back-to-back wins in such a major event […]
September 21, 2014
American poker professional, 27-year-old Darren Elias “The End Boss”, took down the 2014 WPT Borgata Open Poker Main Event Season XIII, besting a large field of 1226 with a total prize pool of $3 924 426. Elias collected a career-high payday of $843 744 and a seat in the WPT World Championships after taking out […]
September 11, 2014
A total of 404 hopefuls registered for the World Poker Tour Merit Classic tournament in Cyprus this week, generating a prize pool of $1,471,320, with the lion’s share going to Russian pro Alexander Lakhov, playing in his second WPT event (he was runner up in the 2012 WPT Prague tourney.) The final table was led […]
August 2, 2014
It hasn’t taken long – just three years since joining the company in 2011 – for marketing and operations specialist Hermance Blum to rise to the senior echelons of management at World Poker Tour, where she has just been appointed General Manager for Europe. Blum (31) entered the poker industry on the PR side when […]
July 29, 2014
Casting its entertainment net ever wider, the World Poker Tour has announced a new promotional deal with Twistory Entertainment Studios which will see that company’s video game Belle’s War featured in future episodes of the WPT tournaments carried on Fox Sports Network. The Belle’s War theme gels nicely with the traditional idea of the early […]
July 20, 2014
The organisers of the World Poker Tour have confirmed that the first two stops on Season 2 of the WPT Alpha8 series will be London and Las Vegas. The Palm Beach Casino in London will be the host for the second time for the event, which carries a GBP 60,000 buy-in and will run from […]
July 11, 2014
The World Poker Tour’s inaugural WPT500 tournament at the Aria Resort and Casino in Las Vegas is being lauded as a success following 3,599 player registrations that boosted the prize pool in the $500 buy-in competition to $1.8 million. After seven days of hard-charging poker the event concluded Thursday with Los Angeles grinder and biotech […]
April 30, 2014
WPT Enterprises has partnered with the DeepStacks Poker Tour (DSPT) to form the WPTDeepStacks, which replaces WPT-Regional and DeepStacks Poker Tour brands. “This is one of those rare win-win-wins,” said WPT President Adam Pliska. “Combining WPT’s brand with DSPT’s staff and cutting-edge approach is a victory for both brands. We couldn’t be more excited about […]
April 26, 2014
The World Poker Tour decision to relocate this year’s Championship to Atlantic City after years at the Bellagio in Las Vegas has had a sobering consequence; there have been fewer buy-ins at 328 entries vs. last year’s 545. Comparing the numbers, this year’s event has generated a prize pool of $4,852,400 which will see the […]
April 22, 2014
Breaking a decade-long tradition of holding its prestigious championship event at the Bellagio in Las Vegas, the World Poker Tour has moved the epic competition to the Borgata in New Jersey, where online gambling was legalised late last year, and Borgata leads the field. On Monday the $15,000 buy-in competition, which carries a $5 million […]