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Veteran high-stakes poker pro Doug Polk is once again firing up the online poker world by inviting competitors to take him on in a brand-new heads-up no-limit hold'em challenge. The announcement, shared publicly on social media, has stirred excitement among fans and fellow pros alike, marking another chapter in Polk's storied career as one of the game's top strategic minds.

Read more » Doug Polk launches Bold New Heads-Up Poker Challenge

Win your way to the $40 million guaranteed World Championship in Las Vegas, the biggest guaranteed prize pool tournament in the world, for as low as $5 in WPT Global Satellites and Qualifiers.

Read more » WPT Global - Win your Way to the $40M Guaranteed WPT World Championship

Exclusive WPT LIVE Tour Qualifiers - Win your way to WPT featured stops around the world!

Read more » WPT Global - WPT Prime Passport Qualifiers

To celebrate the launch of Poker Flips, WPT Global has launched a special monthly leaderboard for it - which awards the top 5 finishers with a WPT Championship package worth $12,400!

Read more » WPT Global promo - Win your way to the WPT World Championship via Poker Flips!

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 is definitely making a huge impression in the world of online poker as it launches its first digital festival specially made for Asian players, and it's already ongoing at Natural8!

Natural 8 - WPT Asia Online Series

• Duration: October 3 to 25, 2020
• Prize Pool: HK$100,000,000 Gtd ($12.8 million)
• 22 Trophies to be won

An Irish poker player managed to snag a six-figure victory plus a well-deserved title of WPT Champion from a humble $33 investment.

Daniel Smyth from Ireland entered a WPT satellite for a $33 buy-in and turned that into a $320 ticket. The Irishman then parleyed that $320 into a $3,200 WPT Knockout Championship seat and then went all the way to win the event for $208,803, an extra $204,588 worth of bounty rewards, plus a free seat to the next WPT Tournament of Champions worth $15,000.

Read more » Daniel Smyth Turns $33 into $428,391 at WPTWOC Event

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

One of the events featured at this year's WPT UK, the $1M GTD Devilfish Cup, ran from September 30 to October 2 with a buy-in of $5,300, and an online poker tournament specialist was crowned the champ of this event, who took home the trophy plus a whopping $250,000 cash prize.

WPT UK 2019

• Event: Devilfish Cup
• Schedule: September 30 to October 2, 2019
• Buy-in: $5000 + $300
• Prize pool: $1M guaranteed
• Entries: 209

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 888poker WPTDeepStacks Portugal Main Event has a $1,350 buy-in and a guaranteed €250,000 prize pool. For those who don't have that kind of buy in onhand, worry not because 888poker has something great for you - get the chance to qualify for the Main Event by entering a series of satellites with buy-ins starting at just 1 penny!

888poker is joining forces with WPT DeepStacks once again to give players this incredible Portuguese event.

Read more » 888poker Promo - Qualify to the WPTDeepStacks Portugal Main Event for just One Penny!

After winning LIVE MILLIONS Russia Main Event in August last year, partypoker ambassador Anatoly Filatov begins 2019 with yet another first-place achievement to add to his impressive poker resumé.

Read more » WPT Russia High Roller event won by Anatoly Filatov for $119,730

On Wednesday, Art Papazyan emerged as the champion in the World Poker Tour Maryland Live! Main Event for $389,405 thanks to defeating a field of 561 players!

This is Papazyan's second WPT Main Event title in just over 1 month, after defeating 14-time WSOP bracelet winner Phil Hellmuth heads-up in the WPT Legend of Poker Main Event in August.

Read more » Art Papazyan Wins 2 WPT Titles In Five Weeks!

Atlanta poker pro Daniel Weinmann won his first World Poker Tour title last Friday (on his birthday) after outlasting a record-field of 1,312 entries in the Season XV WPT Borgata Winter Poker Open $3,500 Championship to win $892,433 and a $15,000 seat into the season-ending WPT Tournament of Champions .

Read more » Daniel Weinmann Wins Record WPT Borgata Winter Open Championship

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!

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 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 final table of six is set after three days of intensive poker at the World Poker Tour bestbet Open in Jacksonville, Florida. Danny Schechter will be the chip leader (3,825,000) when the final table kicks off at 20:00 CET tonight (2pm ET). Schechter only had 52,000 chips when Day 3 started, so you can just imagine what an incredible winning streak he has had.

He has almost double the amount of chips of his closest opponent (Michael Linster) and it will be interesting to see if he can keep a cool head at tonight's final table - where a first prize of $321,521 is up for grabs! 

Final table chip counts:
Seat 1: Pete Tinnesz - 1,035,000
Seat 2: Danny Schechter - 3,825,000
Seat 3: Michael Linster - 2,150,000
Seat 4: Pete Chwala - 1,180,000
Seat 5: David Bell - 1,980,000
Seat 6: David Diaz - 375,000

The World Poker Tour Seminole Hard Rock Showdown main event lost some familiar faces during Day 4, including Faraz Jaka (9th place), Ben Hamnett (10th place), Tony Ruberto (12th place), Matt Salsberg (13th place) and Matt Giannetti (21st place). Luckily, one big name made it to the final table...

Read more » Final Table Set at WPT Seminole Hard Rock Showdown

On Thursday, Day 1A of the 2013 World Poker Tour Seminole Hard Rock Showdown kicked off at the Hard Rock Casino in Hollywood, Florida. 205 players entered the tournament for $5,000 each and, after 10 levels of play, Donald Nicholson (355,100) had the biggest stack amongst the remaining 75 players. Below are the top 10 stacks of Day 1A. 

1. Donald Nicholson 355,100
2. Danny Shiff 229,200
3. Ben Tarzia 213,100
4. John McEwen 184,600
5. Faraz Jaka 181,900
6. Jerry Wong 180,000
7. Danny Suied 140,000
8. Kevin Eyster 137,500
9. Richard Leger 134,500
10.Andy Hwang 124,700

A total of 249 players signed up for the season XI World Poker Tour Barcelona main event earlier this week and yesterday, after four days of play, the final six battled it out on the final table. Characy Khun, from Canada, sat down at the final table with the largest stack and, believe it or not, he eliminated every single opponent during seven levels of play to lay hands on the first place prize of $258,448 - the largest cash of his career! Read more » WPT Barcelona: A winner has been crowned

The final table of the World Poker Tour main event is set after 4 days of play. The six finalists (no notables) are already guaranteed $47,813 each but, of course, the $258,448 first prize (+a seat in the WPT Final) will make sure that everyone play their very best game and make it an interesting final table! Below are the finalists:

1 Chanracy Khun (picture) 2,393,000
2 Benjamin Pollak 1,899,000
3 Tahiri Hassani Najib 1,636,000
4 Bruno Garcia Cotelo 722,000
5 Sergio Fernandez 548,000
6 Antonio Alfaia 273,000
Average Chip Count: 1,245,000

The final table kicks off at 14:00 CET. You can watch the live stream here.

Day 3 of the World Poker Tour Bay 101 Shooting Star saw a field of 44 players play down to a final table of 6. Paul Volpe finished second in the WPT L.A. Poker Classic main event last week and now has another chance to lay hands on his first WPT title.

Read more » WPT Bay 101 Shooting Star: Volpe and Seidel On The Final Table!

The main event of World Poker Tour Baden is down to 44 players after 2 days of play. German poker pro Bodo Sbrzesny, who finished third in WPT Prague a few months ago, leads the remaining squad of players into Day 3 with 403,000 chips (20k more than his fellow countryman Vishal Pundjabi).

Another German with plenty of chips is Marvin Rettenmaier (248,500 - ranked 10). Besides Rettenmaier, the biggest names left in the tournament are Kara Scott, Paul Berende and Martin Stazsko.

Day 3 starts at 14:00 (CET) with the blinds 1,200-2,400, 400 ante, and the final table will be played on Sunday. 27 of the remaining players will get a piece of the prize pool (minimum cash of $8,634 and the winner will take home $271,258).

Check back on Monday for a recap of how the final table played out.

After 5 days of play, Matt Giannetti was crowned the champion of the World Poker Tour Lucky Hearts Poker Open at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Hollywood, Florida. Giannetti, who won the 2012 WPT Malta Main Event, brought the largest stack to the final table and remained in the lead from start to finish. Besides that it only took him 6 hands to defeat Lily Kiletto heads-up.

Read more » WPT Lucky Hearts Poker Open: Matt Giannetti Wins His Second WPT Title!

Ravi Raghavan is the newest member of the World Poker Tour (WPT) Champions Club after besting a field of 503-players at the WPT Doyle Brunson Five Diamond World Poker Classic. Raghavan went from being the short-stack to the only stack on the final table, which included amazing players such as Antonio Esfandiari, who won this event in Season IX, Andrew Lichtenberger who made it to the final in this event in Season X and WPT Champions Club member Shawn Buchanan!

WPT Doyle Brunson Five Diamond World Poker Classic final table results: 

1. Ravi Raghavan - $1,268,571
2. Shawn Buchanan - $746,502
3. Thomas Winters - $483,031
4. Antonio Esfandiari - $329,339
5. Andrew Lichtenberger - $234,197
6. Jeremy Kottler - $187,845

The third day at the World Poker Tour Five Diamond World Poker Classic came to a close with 60 players and Antonio "The Magician" Esfandiari as the chip leader (918,500). Esfandiari won this tournament 2 years ago and finished 6th last year. Now he has about 300k chips more than his closest opponent, Freddy Deeb, and more than 3 times the average stack. In other words, he has a fantastic chance of winning a second title!

Read more » WPT: "The Magician" Leads the Final 60 At Bellagio