November 9, 2015
UK poker pro Iaron Lightbourne emerged victorious in the 2015 PartyPoker WPT UK Main event besting a field of 450 and ultimately Craig McCorkell in heads-up. Lightbourne took home the title and a his biggest career pay check to date of GBP 200 000. Final Table : Iaron Lightbourne – GBP 200,000 Craig McCorkell […]
November 4, 2015
Mian Wei took down Mario Sanchez Cano following a three-hour heads-up winning the 2015 World Poker Tour UK High Roller title and GBP 100 000 cash. Wei bested a field of 48 include Michael Mizrachi on the final table. Final Table Results 1 Mian Wei GBP 100,000 2 Mario Sanchez Cano […]
September 30, 2015
In January this year poker pro Aaron Mermelstein won the World Poker Tour Winter Poker Open at the Borgata, and this week he made it two WPT titles in the same year by taking down the $3,500 buy-in WPT Maryland Live! for $250,222 and a seat at the WPT Championship later this year. The event […]
September 26, 2015
New York poker pro David Paredes has scored his biggest live tournament win yet after claiming the winner’s prize of $723,227 in the World Poker Tour Borgata Open. The $3,500 buy-in event carried a guarantee of $3 million and attracted a large field of 1,027 – many of them top professional players. Paredes has been […]
September 6, 2015
786 hopefuls paid a buy-in of $3,700 apiece to play in the World Poker Tour Legends of Poker main event this weekend at the Bicycle Casino, and at one point it looked as if Shaun Deeb would make the competition his third WPT victory, elevating him to an elite and exclusive strata of exceptionally accomplished […]
August 5, 2015
Kansas native Jason Brin has bested a field of 1 175 to win the inaugural WPT Choctaw Main Event along with a $682 975 pay check. Played out in Durant, Oklahoma, Brin emerged victorious from heads-up play with Andy Hwang who was attempting to win his second WPT title. Brin, the owner of a carpet […]
July 21, 2015
The past weekend saw a memorable World Poker Tour achievement for French poker pro Laurent Polito, who won his fourth WPT main event in the last two years – and Euro 56,500 – playing at the Grand Casino Brussels in the Euro 700 buy-in WPTN main event, bringing his live tourney career earnings to $1.3 […]
July 7, 2015
The Aria Resort and Casino provided more alternative interest in Las Vegas Monday when the $565 buy-in WPT500 Party Poker Presents tournament concluded with a win of $330,000 for Las Vegas professional player Craig Varnell. Varnell has been a busy man at the World Series of Poker at the nearby Rio this series, cashing for […]
June 22, 2015
News breaking over the weekend is that Bwin.Party Digital Entertainment has agreed to sell its World Poker Tour franchise lock, stock and barrel to former WPT licensee Ourgame International Holdings in a cash deal worth $35 million. Ourgame is a Cayman Islands incorporated, Hong Kong-based company which has been a WPT licensee in China for […]
May 17, 2015
The inaugural main event of the first World Poker Tour Amsterdam ended in a victory for a Dutch amateur player making his debut in a major live tournament this weekend when Farid Yachou from Leeuwarden took the honours and the main prize of Euro 215,000 and a seat at the 2016 WPT World Championship. The […]