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WPT Global, the trending online poker room of the World Poker Tour, will host a massive online tournament series to celebrate the most-awaited season of the year - the WPT Summer Festival.

Read more » WPT Summer Festival - Over $3.5M Guaranteed at WPT Global

888poker and WPT has once again teamed up to bring you the WPTDeepStacks Online Series on November 28 to December 12. This prestigious series features 28 events with over $3 million guaranteed!

Read more » 888poker hosts second WPTDeepStacks Online this 2021

888poker has $200,000 in Daily Freerolls for your playing pleasure! 888poker and WPTDeepStacks present:

WPTDeepStacks $2M GTD

• An online event made to capture the excitement of live poker.
• Over $2,000,000 in total prizes
• $1,000,000 multi-flight Main Event
• 16 official WPT DeepStacks trophies
• Over $200,000 in free tickets
• Dates: April 18 - 26, 2021 at 888poker
• Made To Play

888poker announced that it will host three series with WPTDeepStacks^TM for poker players on its European and global networks.

These three events will offer players the chance to compete versus their respective networks for massive prizes and a WPTDeepStacks title: WPTDS^TM London Online (ROW), WPTDS Iberia Online (Portugal and Spain), and WPTDS Italy Online (Italian network).

Read more » 888poker to Host WPTDeepStacks Events in April 2021

Premier esports entertainment company Allied Esports has announced that they have sold off the World Poker Tour (WPT) to investment firm Element Partners.

The deal entails Element buying off Allied Esports' poker-related business and assets for an astounding amount of US$78.25 million. The company has also announced that it intends to "explore strategic options" for its esports business.

Read more » Allied Esports Entertainment sells WPT for US$78 Million

The World Poker Tour has renamed the WPT Champions Cup, their main tour trophy, after long-time WPT commentator Mike Sexton.

Mike Sexton served as lead commentator for the first 15 seasons, and won the WPT title himself in Montreal in 2016. The trophy, which bears the names of every WPT main tour winner etched on the base, shall now be called the "Mike Sexton WPT Champions Cup".

Read more » WPT renames its Trophy to Mike Sexton WPT Champions Cup

This February, the World Poker Tour (WPT) goes to King's Casino in Rozvadov, Czech Republic for the second big event of the year in the tour's Season XVIII calendar.

WPT Germany

• Schedule: February 9 to 23, 2020
• Venue: King's Casino in Rozvadov, Czech Republic
• Prize pool: €2,500,000 GTD
• No. of Events: 19

This year's WPT UK Main Event from September 22 to October 6 had a buy-in of $3,300, and a Swedish poker pro was crowned the champion, who took home the trophy plus a whopping $330,000 cash prize. He has become the first person to win a WPT Main Tour and WPTDeepStacks title.

WPT UK 2019 - Main Event

• Schedule: September 22 to October 6, 2019
• Buy-in: $3000 + $300
• Prize pool: $1.5M guaranteed

WPT UK shall be the next tour stop of a series of awesome joint events by the World Poker Tour and partypoker LIVE.

WPT UK 2019

• Schedule: September 22 to October 7, 2019
• Venue: Dusk Till Dawn Poker & Casino, Nottingham, UK
• Prizepool: $3,636,000 GTD

The 38-year-old poker pro from Coeur D'Alene, ID, United States was the last man standing in this event. This is his first-ever WPT title and his biggest score to date, the first-place prize of $1,631,468.

A total of 1,001 players entered the 2018 World Poker Tour Five Diamond World Poker Classic $10,400 NLHE Main Event, which has now been considered as the biggest field ever in a $10,000 buy-in event on WPT history. The player entries altogether generated a $9,709,700 prize pool. After five days of extreme poker action held at the Bellagio, it was Dylan ‘ImaLucSac' Linde who won the lion's share of the prize.

Read more » 2018 WPT Five Diamond World Poker Classic Main Event won by Dylan Linde for $1.6M

Earlier this week, German poker pro Ole Schemion won the first-ever World Poker Tour European Championship Main Event for to secure his first WPT title, €218,435 in prize money and a $15,000 WPT Tournament of Champions ticket. 

Read more » Ole Schemion Wins WPT European Championship

Ryan Tosoc was actually the 2016 Runner-Up on WPT Five Diamond Main Event, and this time, he's made sure to snatch that top spot, defeating the record 812-entry field to win $1,958,065!

Read more » Ryan Tosoc Wins 2017 WPT Five Diamond for almost 2 Million!

Daniel Weinman and another 65 World Poker Tour Champion club members enterd the Season XV Monster WPT Tournament of Champions. It took three days of play to boil down the field of poker talents to the televised WPT final table, where Daniel Weinman played Michael "The Grinder" Mizrachi heads-up for the title and the $381,500 first-place prize.

Read more » Daniel Weinman Defeats Michael Mizrachi To Win WPT Tournament of Champions

On Tuesday, Aaron Mermelstein took down his second WPT title after winning the World Poker Tour Maryland Main Event! Mermelstein, who won the WPT Borgata Winter Poker Open in January this year, bested a field of 337 runners and a final table that included two-time WSOP bracelet winner Greg Merson to bank $250,222 and a seat into the $15,400 buy-in WPT World Championship. He is the 25th person (Gus Hansen, Carlos Mortensen and Season XIII Hublot WPT Player of the Year Anthony Zinno etc.) to have scored two+ WPT titles.

Read more » Aaron Mermelstein Wins His Second WPT Title Of 2015!

Two days of poker are in the books at the the World Poker Tour Rolling Thunder Main Event (played at Thunder Valley Casino Resort in Lincoln, California) and Bryan Campanello will lead the final 24 players (of 465 entries) into Day 3 with 1,436,000 in chips. Besides Campanello, only another two players, Chad Eveslage (1,390,000) and Benjamin Zamani (1,350,000), will bring over 1 million chips to Day 3.

Read more » WPT Rolling Thunder: Day 2 is Over - JC Tran Among Final 24!

Both starting days at the 2014 World Poker Tour Bay 101 Shooting Star have come to a close and, believe it or not, a new record has been set! A total of 713 players bought into tournament (crushing last year's record of 643 players), making it the largest Bay 101 Shooting Star in WPT History!

Read more » Largest WPT Bay 101 Shooting Star in History!

A big congratulations to Chris Moorman, the winner of the 2014 World Poker Tour L.A. Poker Classic! The 28-year-old British poker professional, who has won more than $11 million online, topped a field of 534 players to secure his first major live tournament title and a sweet $1,015,460 first prize that brings his live tournament career earnings close to $3 million!

Final Table Results:

1: Chris Moorman - $1,015,460
2: Glenn Lafaye - $662,840
3: Michael Rocco - $423,440
4: Patrick Bruel - $332,190
5: Josh Neufeld - $264,520
6: Adam Friedman - $200,440

Next up on the WPT-schedule is the Bay 101 Shooting Star (an event that always attracts some of the biggest names in poker). The event runs from March 10-14 in San Jose, California, and we will post daily updates here in the news section so you won't miss out on anything! 

In case you missed it: World Poker Tour Alpha8 Johannesburg ($100,000 buy-in) kicked off last Friday and saw 10 entries (9 players + 1 rebuy by Antonio Esfandiari). On Saturday, the final 7 players return for the second day of play and, after several hours of thrilling poker, Daniel "Jungleman" Cates ended up as the last man standing for $500,000 in prize money along with the prestigious Alpha8 trophy and a 24k special edition pair of Monster headphones.

Besides Cates, Kinesh Pather received $275,000 for his runner-up finish and Jason Mercier took home $200,000 for finishing in third place. Jeff Gross, who was the chip leader for sometime with 4 remaining players, ended up as the bubble boy in 4th place.

Cards are in the air at the Emperors Palace in Johannesburg, South Africa. According to WPT's website, 7 players (Phil Ivey, Antonio Esfandiari, Dan Cates, Jeff Gross, Max Altergott, local player Kinesh Pather, and back-to-back Alpha8 champion Philipp Gruissem) have registered for the Day 1 of the $100,000 buy-in tournament.

Read more » WPT Alpha8 Johannesburg

The last World Poker Tour tournament of 2013 came to a close yesterday when Julian Thomas defeated Vasili Firsau, who also finished runner up at the WPT Grand Prix de Paris a few months ago, heads-up in the bwin WPT Prague Main Event! Thomas received €206,230 in prize money and joined a long list of German poker professionals who have gone all the way in some of the major poker tournaments of 2013.

Final table results:
1) Julian Thomas, €206 230
2) Vasili Firsau, €135 000
3) Andrey Shatilov, €85 000
4) Gintaras Simaitis, €63 000
5) Ognjen Secularac, €47 000
6) Valeri Savov, €38 000

Only six players remain after four days of intensive play at the PartyPoker WPT Montreal Main Event at the Playground Poker Club in Canada. Day 3 chip leader Sylvain Siebert is still in the lead and will bring 8.4 million chips to today's televised final table.

Read more » Final Table Set @ WPT Montreal

The second day at the World Poker Tour Carribean Main event came to a close just a few moments ago. There are 32 players left in the tournament and the chip leader is Thomas Laviano with 402,000.

Other big stacks at the end of Day 2 included Jean-Nicolas Fortin (361,500), Tony Dunst (282,000) and Day 1 chip leader Ebony Kenney, who bagged up 258,000 (7th place) at the end of play.

Read more » WPT Caribbean: 32 Players Survived Day 2

Both starting days of the 2013 World Poker Tour Caribbean Main Event in St. Maarten are in the books now and there are 107 of 191 players remaining. The overall chip leader is Ebony Kenney (picture) with 174,000 chips, and she will be joined to Day 2 by notables such as Marvin Rettenmaier (104,400), Mike Watson (45,500), Tobias Reinkemeier (25,800) and Will Failla (22,500).

We will be back with another brief update tomorrow (the prize pool should be announced by then).

Hedge fund manager and poker pro Dan Shak will be hosting the annual "All In for Kids" charity poker event on Thursday. The event will be held at the Mandarin Oriental in New York and will be filmed for national television and air as a part of a future World Poker Tour broadcast on Fox Sports Net.

In addition to wealthy CEO's, celebrities and athletes, poker pros including Vanessa Selbst, Mike Sexton and Phil Hellmuth will participate in the tournament. The event has raised more than $4.3 million over the past five years. All money raised will be donated to the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.

On Friday, the last six players of a 1,189-player field battled it out on the 2013 World Poker Tour Borgata Poker Open final table. At the end of the night, after nearly eight levels of play, Anthony Zinno stood tall as the winner after defeating Team PokerStars Pro Vanessa Selbst heads-up.

Read more » WPT Borgata Poker Open: Anthony Zinno Defeated Vanessa Selbst For The Title!

The 2013 World Poker Tour Borgata Poker Open final table is set after four intensive days of play at the Borgata Casino in Atlantic City! Day 3 chip leader Cong Pham and Team PokerStars Pro Vanessa Selbst (the highest-earning woman in poker) will lead the remaining 6 players into tomorrow's televised final table. The average chip count is 5.9 million and Pham has a healthy stack of 10.1 million while Selbst has 7.9 million.

Seat 1. Eric Fields - 3,150,000 (31 bb)
Seat 2. Anthony Zinno - 6,935,000 (69 bb)
Seat 3. Vanessa Selbst - 7,910,000 (79 bb)
Seat 4. David Randall - 3,520,000 (35 bb)
Seat 5. Jeremy Kottler - 3,925,000 (39 bb)
Seat 6. Cong Pham - 10,190,000 (101 bb)

Read more » WPT Borgata Poker Open: Pham and Selbst Lead Final Table

Another action-filled day of poker is in the books at Borgata Hotel and Casino in Atlantic City, New Jersey and now there are only 36 players left out of 1,189 entries, which means that the final table, where some serious cash is up for grabs, is just around the corner! Cong Pham will lead the remaining players into Day 4 with 2.5 million chips, and other top stacks are Jake Schwartz (2,145,000), David Johnston (2,050,000), David Randall (2,020,000), and Team PokerStars Pro Vanessa Selbst (1,739,000).

All the remaining players are guaranteed a minimum cash of $14,777 - with the chance of taking home the first prize of a whopping $825,099! We will be back with another brief update tomorrow, so stay tuned!

The third day at the World Poker Tour Borgata Poker Open kicks off at noon ET today and the plan is to play until only 27 players remain. When the cards are in the air, Raj Vohra (+$740k in tournament winnings) is the chip leader with 580,700 amongst the remaining squad of 174 players. Vohra will be joined at the tables by Day 2 chip leader Paul Volpe (337,000); Champions Club members Scott Seiver (304,500) Jonathan Little (260,500) and Matt Salsberg (144,000), and several other familiar faces.

The money bubble will burst when 110 players remain (min cash: $7,123) and the winner of the tournament will take home a sweet $825,099! Check back tomorrow for another update.

On Monday, Day 1B at Borgata Hotel and Casino in Atlantic City, New Jersey concluded with close to 440 players of 813 entries! A total of 595 players of 1,189 will return to play later on today and Paul Volpe (picture) has the biggest stack of chips! Volpe, an American pro with over $2 million in live tournament earnings, finished Day 1B with 231,850 chips to earn a $5,000 bonus, and Anthony Castelli bagged up the second largest stack (203,950) to receive a $3,500 bonus.

The top 110 players will cash for at least $7,123 each from the $3,805,989 prize pool, the winner will get an incredible $825,099, and $17,000 is set aside to pay the chip leader bonuses for Day 1A and 1B.

We will be back with another update tomorrow!

The first Day 1 flight at the 2013 World Poker Tour Borgata Poker Open Main Event attracted 376 players and approximately 180 of them advanced to Day 2. The chip leader at the end of play was Cong Pham (picture) with 191,025 in chips. He will get $5,000 from Borgata as the chip leader yesterday, and $3,500 will be awarded to Besnik Ziba for finishing second in chips with 183,375. 

Several big names fell during Day 1A including Matt Salsberg, Kara Scott, Matt Waxman, Chad Brown and Season XII "One to Watch" Loni Harwood. Luckily all of them (and other players that didn't make it through Day 1A) will have a chance to re-enter today. In fact, according to WPT's website, there will be unlimited re-entries for all players today.

We will be back with another brief update tomorrow!

After four days of play, the final table of the World Poker Tour Merit Cyprus Classic Main Event is set! The final 6 players will return to play in about 1 hour and fight for a first place prize of $258,00!

The big favourite to take down the tournament is the 1 million+ chip leader Alexey Rybin who has led the tournament from start to finish Day 2, 3 and 4. The 33-year-old from Moscow, Russia has $483,503 in live tournament earnings and his best score so far is a 5th place finish at EPT San Remo in 2010 for $366,833 (Liv Boeree won the tournament). 

1 Pierre Sayegh 349,000 Lebanon
2 Alexey Rybin 2,698,000 Russia
3 Andrei Nikonov 1,280,000 Russia
4 Sergey Rybachenko 921,000 Russia
5 Albert Daher 1,595,000 Lebanon
6 Kayhan Tugrul 1,025,000 Turkey

World Poker Tour Alpha8 is a brand new series of high-stakes, televised poker tournaments held at the most exclusive resorts around the globe, including stops in North America, Europe, Asia and South Africa. The minimum buy-in starts at an insane $100,000 and the first tournament is scheduled for August 26-27, 2013 at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Hollywood, Florida. All WPT Alpha8 tournaments will feature an eight-player final table that will be broadcasted on the new FS1 network starting 10pm EST on Sunday, March 16, 2014.

"I am honoured to announce Alpha8, WPT's newest and most ambitious offering in conjunction with its primetime home on FS1," said WPT President, Adam Pliska. "Showcasing the world's poker elite and featuring multimillion dollar prize pools, Alpha8 represents the highest televised treatment of super high-roller tournament poker to date. Playing out over a global stage, this series will give audiences insight into the intensity and skill demanded at the sport's highest levels."

The 12th season of the World Poker Tour (WPT) will kick off in just about one month's time. So far, the organisers of the very popular tournament series have revealed half of the schedule of season XXII (11 stops), which includes a brand new stop in South Korea. WPT South Korea begins December 16 and will be held at the brand new WPT Club Phoenix Room at the Ramada Plaze Hotel in Jeju.

The first televised event on the new season will take place in Los Angeles at the Bicycle Casino on August 29. Other televised Main Events include: 

• WPT Borgata Poker Open (September 15)
• WPT Grand Prix de Paris at the Aviation Club de France (October 25)
• WPT Montreal at Playground Poker Club (November 29)
• The WPT Doyle Brunson Five Diamond World Poker Classic (December 6)

The 2013 WPT World Championship main event ($25,000) concluded early Saturday morning with David "Chino" Rheem, who entered the final table with a big lead, defeating Erik Lindgren heads-up for an incredible first prize of $1,150,297. It was Rheem's second World Poker Tour title (His first victory came at the Five Diamond World Poker Classic in Season VII) and now he has over $7 million in live tournament winnings.

Final Table Results:
1: Chino Rheem - $1,150,297

2: Erick Lindgren - $650,275

3: Jonathan Roy - $421,800
4: Matt Hyman - $289,988
5: Brandon Steven - $223,203

6: David Peters - $173,993Read more » Chino Rheem Won WPT World Championship ($1,150,297)

The final table of the World Poker Tour World Championship at Bellago in Las Vegas is set after 4 days of play, and here are the 8 finalists:

Seat 1.  Jonathan Roy  -  1,987,000  (66 bb)
Seat 2.  David Peters  -  858,000  (28 bb)
Seat 3.  Erick Lindgren  -  2,518,000  (83 bb)
Seat 4.  Rocco Palumbo  -  680,000  (22 bb)
Seat 5.  Brandon Steven  -  1,235,000  (41 bb)
Seat 6.  Daniel Negreanu  -  545,000  (18 bb)
Seat 7.  Matt Hyman  -  1,940,000  (64 bb)
Seat 8.  Chino Rheem  -  4,839,000  (161 bb)

Chino Rheem entered Day 4 21st in chips with 24 players remaining and he went on an incredible winning spree after the field reached the money to take the chip lead. Rheem, winner of the WPT Doyle Brunson Classic in 2008, has almost twice as much chips as any other finalist. He he will be joined by two-time WPT title winners Erick Lindgren and Daniel Negreanu on the final table. Negreanu only has 545k to work with, but Erick Lindgren has 2.5 million and is second in chips. In total, 5 of 8 finalists already have their names engraved on the WPT Championship Cup trophy: Daniel Negreanu, Erick Lindgren, Rocco Palumbo, Chino Rheem and Jonathan Roy.