December 21, 2014
The weekend saw a second major tournament play out at the Bellagio in Las Vegas when Mohsin Charania bested a final table full of talent to win the World Poker Tour Five Diamond World Poker Classic for the second time and claim the first prize of $1,477,890. The 586-strong entry field was full of respected […]
December 17, 2014
bwin.party Digital Entertainment subsidiary WPT Enterprises has aligned with Chinese online card and board game developer, platform and offline operator Ourgame International Holdings Limited with the award of the exclusive rights to the WPT brand in over twelve Asian countries. Under the terms of the deal, Ourgame will have the right to use the World […]
December 9, 2014
British professional poker player Alex Goulder is Euro 105,000 wealthier following his victory this week in the Euro 2,000 buy-in World Poker Tour National Prague Main Event after besting a field of 250 other competitors. The final day of the event saw World Series of Poker gold bracelet winner Simeon Naydenov in the lead at […]
November 28, 2014
Three separate major live tournament poker tours – the World Poker Tour, the European Poker Tour and Ongame’s Grand Series of Poker – are scheduled to provide nearly three weeks of action through December in the beautiful and historic Czech capital of Prague, providing a host of poker fans with around 70 competitions. The World […]
November 27, 2014
The last World Poker Tour live tournament for this year will be held in partnership with French gambling giant PMU at the Cercle Clichy Montmarte starting November 29 (this Saturday). Running through December 8, the PMU.fr WPT National Paris offers players a dozen competitions culminating in a Euro 1,200 buy-in main event. Other key events […]
November 27, 2014
Jonathan Jaffe, a 27-year-old internet professional player from Vermont, has triumphed in the C$3,500 buy-in World Poker Tour Montreal tournament, claiming a main event prize worth C$463,432 after defeating Ratharam Sivagnanam in a fiercely fought heads up. The event attracted 732 entries, which over several days distilled to a final table on which Jaffe and […]
November 24, 2014
The GBP 3,000 World Poker Tour UK main event concluded over the weekend in victory for 21-year-old Lithuanian player Matas Cimbolas, who took home GBP 200,000 after besting Ben Warrington from the UK. Cimbolas entered the final table as chip leader, a position he was able to maintain for much of the action. He faced […]
November 18, 2014
The World Poker Tour 500 tourney held at Rob Yong’s Dusk Til Dawn venue in Nottingham, UK has been won by poker pro and accomplished internet player Eleanor ‘Elz442’ Gudger, who was sponsored by the PKR online card room. The event attracted an impressive field of 2,133 players, giving Gudger a GBP 140,000 first prize […]
November 17, 2014
US poker pro Dylan Wilkerson celebrated a key career victory this weekend when he claimed the $147,000 main prize in the World Poker Tour Emperors Palace Poker Classic hosted by that establishment in Johannesburg, South Africa. Over the three-day competition Wilkerson survived a starting field of 165 other hopefuls to enter the final day competing […]
November 13, 2014
It’s been a good, bank account-boosting week for 21-year-old Florida professional poker player Ryan Van Sanford, who cleaned up in the World Poker Tour Bestbet Bounty Scramble in Jacksonville to claim a first prize worth $421,068. The $5,000 buy-in event featured forty players carrying a head bounty of $2,500 and a million dollar guaranteed prize […]