April 15, 2017
In a first of its kind agreement for Europe, World Poker Tour and Pokerstars are partnering up to present super-tournaments with a total investment in guaranteed prize pools of Euro 32.5 million. Announcing the deal, WPT chief executive Adam Pliska revealed that the schedule starts with the PokerStars Championship presented by Monte-Carlo Casino between April […]
April 7, 2017
Former WSOP champion Ryan Reiss, who won more than $8.3 million for his Main Event victory back in 2013 (see previous InfoPowa reports) has scored another major win, taking down the $10,000 buy-in WPT Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown Finale Thursday. He succeeded despite a tough and highly competitive field that included aces like Cliff […]
April 7, 2017
Tony Sinishtaj emerged victorious out of heads up play with Darryll Fish in the WPT Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown $3,500 Championship, the first WPT cash of his career. Sinishtaj outplayed a 1,207 entry field winning his first WPT title, a $661,283 paycheck and a $15,000 seat to the Season XV Monster WPT Tournament of […]
March 4, 2017
California poker pro Daniel Strelitz (27) is $1,001,110 wealthier this week after winning the $10,000 buy-in 2017 World Poker Tour L.A. Poker Classic NLHE main event by besting a field of 521 rivals. It was the young pro’s first WPT title…and his first seven-figure win; his best previous cash was $338,774 at the World Series […]
February 28, 2017
US poker pro Darren Elias has joined the exclusive company of players who have won three or more World Poker Tour titles, becoming the fifth member of a group that includes Chino Rheem, Anthony Zinno, Carlos Mortensen and Gus Hansen. He clinched his third title at the Cdn$ 5,000 buy-in WPT Fallsview main event in […]
February 16, 2017
Ema Zajmovic made World Poker Tour (WPT) history as the first woman ever to win an open buy-in event this week. Zajmovic won the Season XV partypoker.net WPT Playground Championship earlier this week. Besting a field of 380, in the C$3,500 buy-in event, Zajmovic beat Jean-Francois Bouchard in heads up play, pocketed the C$261,000 first […]
February 15, 2017
Quebec poker pro Ema Zajmovic became the the first female player to win an open-field World Poker Tour title this week when she bested a field of 380 to claim the first prize of Cdn$ 261,000 in the Partypoker.net WPT Playground main event at the Playground Poker Club in Montreal. Her prize includes a seat […]
January 11, 2017
World Poker Tour (WPT) has acquired all the assets of WPTDeepStacks for an undisclosed consideration. WPT formed a partnership with The DeepStacks Poker Tour mid-2014, replacing the existing WPT Regional and DeepStacks Poker Tour brands in the United States and Europe. The growth of WPTDeepStacks since then has led to the WPTDeepStacks tour generating over […]
December 11, 2016
791 entries, generating a prize pool of $7,672,700; a top prize of $1,938,118; six-figure pay days for all final table players; a roster of notable poker names at the tables; and cashes right down to the seventy second finisher are all reasons why this year’s $10,400 buy-in World Poker Tour Five Diamond Poker Classic main […]
November 18, 2016
The highly respected (and always dapper) veteran poker commentator and player Mike Sexton has claimed his first World Poker Tour title after besting a field of 648 in the WPT Montreal event. It was his third WPT final table, and he made this one count. In the early hours of Friday morning local time Sexton […]