The first ever WPT event in Jacksonville, Florida took place last week and Anthony “Boston” Ruberto emerged victorious in the $3500 event for $325,928.  There were 393 total players and a prize pool of over $1.25 million.  Anthony had a commanding chip lead entering the final table, but there was still plenty of intrigue entering [...]

The World Poker Tour has recently announced its final nine tour stops of its incredible tenth season.  Continuing the WPT’s efforts to expand globally, three of the events will be held in Europe.  The WPT will be stopping in Dublin, Ireland in January, in Venice, Italy in February, and then in Vienna, Austria at the [...]

Qualify for the WPT Prague starting today at bwin Poker. WPT Prague is scheduled to take place December 1-5 at the stunning Corinthia Hotel in Prague. Win your 3200€ + 300€ buy-in at bwin from now until November 20th! The World Poker Tour is one of the biggest poker tournament series on the planet. This [...]

You haven’t lived until you’ve been to France and once you go you’ll always be trying to go back! The WPT keeps moving along! After exciting stops in France and Slovenia, the WPT came to Los Angeles last week for an amazing main event where Will Failla won a WPT Title, $755,000, and had his [...]

Exciting, outgoing, brash, old school… these are all words used to describe 2011 WPT Legends of Poker champion Will “The Thrill” Failla, who took the championship and $758,085! The tournament, held at the Bicycle Casino in Bell Gardens, California, featured 757 players total with a $3,700 buy-in. Big names showed up, including Hellmuth, Barry G., [...]

Skip to 8:20 of this video! Dwyte Pilgrim made a dramatic entrance into the elite poker ranks in 2010 by winning the WPT Borgata Poker Open in Atlantic City, one of the world’s largest and most prestigious tournaments. Since then, Pilgrim has established his reputation as a force to be reckoned with, with 8 titles [...]

The four day WPT Legends of Poker event has just wrapped up Day 2. Taking place at the Bicycle Casino in Bell Gardens, this year’s tournament offered a $3,500 buy-in on day 1A, last Thursday, with an optional re-buy on day 1B, last Friday. This was the first WPT tournament to ever have this format. [...]

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Atlantic City is one of the most popular tourist destinations in the United States. While it is known for offering fantastic shopping and fine dining, it is most famous as the “Las Vegas of the East” thanks to its large collection of casinos and gambling venues. If you haven’t had the chance to see what [...]

WPT Slovenia just finished, with local Miha Travnik taking the first place title and $144,399! Travnik will also be receiving a $25,500 entry into the WPT World Championship held at the Bellagio in Las Vegas, later this year. WPT Slovenia featured 141 entrants and a total prize pool of $554,609, running for five days total. [...]