November 7, 2017
Major poker operators World Poker Tour (WPT) and 888Poker announced Monday that they are to team up in order to offer international online satellite competitions that offer players opportunities to win seats in WPT Deep Stacks tourneys across the planet. 888Poker spokesmen said that the partnership is an element in a strategy to make poker […]
October 5, 2017
Just a month ago US poker pro Art Papazyan bested Phil Hellmuth heads-up to win the sixteenth WPT Legends event for $669,000, and this week he was back in the news with another WPT victory, this one worth $389,405 in the WPT Maryland Live! main event. The field of 561 generated a prize pool around […]
September 30, 2017
World Poker Tour and the European division of Allied Esports, ELC Gaming have announced a partnership that will integrate poker and eSports in a competition scheduled for Holland Casino in the Netherlands during the WPTDeepStacks series running between October 9-15 in Valkenburg this year. The schedule includes several integrated poker and eSports events supported by […]
September 24, 2017
The World Poker Tour Borgata Open has concluded with a $789,058 triumph for pro player Guo Liang Chen – by far the biggest cash of his entire career. The $3,500 buy-in NLHE event attracted a field of 1,132, including respected players like Cliff Josephy and Matthew Perry. On the final day of the competition Chen […]
September 2, 2017
Los Angeles high stakes cash game pro Art Papazyan bested his poker idol Phil Hellmuth in the heads up of the $4,000 buy-in World Poker Tour Legends of Poker event played this week at the Bicycle Casino in Bell Gardens near LA. The competition attracted 763 entries, many of them top names in the game, […]
September 1, 2017
Local poker pro Raphael Francisquetti bested a field of 3,386 hopefuls in the inaugural World Poker Tour Brasil main event this week, claiming the main prize of $247,321. With a buy-in of $475 the enthusiastic response from Brasilians ensured that the prize pool guarantee was doubled, finally disbursing around $1.2 million. WPT Brasil was presented […]
August 3, 2017
World Poker Tour chief Adam Pliska has announced that his organisation is planning a tournament in Japan – it’s first in that nation – for November 23 – 26 this year. WPT is partnering with the Japan Poker Union Corporation on the initiative, which is part of an Asia Pacific push that has seen WPT […]
June 5, 2017
World Poker Tour Distribution (WPTD) has partnered Canadian television channel, GameTV, for distribution of WPT content to a nine-million strong Canadian audience. “GameTV is excited to add World Poker Tour content to its robust catalog of programming,” Anthony Cicione, president of Fight Network & GameTV, said. “As the premier name in the distribution of internationally […]
May 9, 2017
A partnership agreement between World Poker Tour and the Indian online poker enterprise Adda52 in the Gaussian Network group (see previous report) came to fruition this week with the first event announcement. The two companies are to present a new Indian tournament branded WPTDeepStacks India. “WPTDeepStacks India will be an exceptionally unique event since the […]
April 19, 2017
Pete Yanhan Chen has won the first WPT Season XVI main event title in Beijing where the tournament played out for the first time. Despite an aggressive, experienced style of play, Chen attributes his win to luck. Heads up play with Chen Ke was described as a David vs. Goliath battle of the Chen’s with […]