Posted in Pro Circuit, Tournaments, WPT on Mar 16th, 2008
Brandon Cantu now has a WPT title to go along with his WSOP bracelet on his poker resume. Cantu breezed through an impressive final table consisting of poker pros John Phan (6th), Jennifer Harman (3rd), and Steve Sung (2nd) to capture the title and the $1,000,000 first prize.
Posted in Pro Circuit, Tournaments, WPT on Mar 14th, 2008
2006 WSOP bracelet winner Brandon Cantu will enter tonight’s WPT Bay 101 Final Table with a big chip lead after dominating Day 3 of the play. The day started off well for Cantu getting very lucky in a big hand against Joe Hachem.
After a flop of 9c-6d-5d, Hachem bet 20k from the small blind and [...]
Posted in Pro Circuit, TV, Tournaments, WPT on Feb 29th, 2008
The 8th time proved to be the charm for Phil Ivey as he captured his first WPT title at his 8th WPT final table.
The day didn’t start well for Ivey. Entering the final table as the chip leader with a little over 4 million in chips, Ivey lost almost half of his chips on [...]
Posted in Pro Circuit, TV, Tournaments, WPT on Feb 28th, 2008
Two of the biggest names in the game Phil Hellmuth and Phil Ivey go into tonight’s final table of the WPT LA Poker Classic with a great chance at winning their first World Poker Tour championship. This will Phil Ivey’s 8th WPT final table and Hellmuth’s 3rd official WPT final table as both look to [...]
Posted in Foxwoods, Tournaments, WPT on Nov 13th, 2007
The past two winners of the WPT Foxwoods World Poker Finals Nick Shulman and Nenad Medic have remarkably reached the final table again. They will battle tonight for the $1.7 million dollar first prize…Results soon to come
Posted in Pro Circuit, Tournaments, WPT on Aug 31st, 2007
Dan Harrington join an elusive field of only five members last night joining Doyle Brunson, Carlos Mortensen, Scotty Nguyen, and Joe Hachem as the only 5 people to win a WPT event and a WSOP Main Event championship.
Harrington took down the championship and the $1,634,865 first prize at a strong final table which include: David [...]
Posted in Pro Circuit, Tournaments, WPT on Jun 21st, 2007
Here is what turned out to be the most important and crazy hand of the WPT Bellagio tournament that just aired on the Travel Channel a few weeks ago between Joe Hachem and David Redlin.
Posted in Pro Circuit, Tournaments, WPT on May 30th, 2007
From the WPT Mandalay Bay currently going on…
Jennifer Tilly Busted
Jennifer Tilly raises to $3,000 and John Juanda reraises to $10,000. Tilly makes the call and the flop comes Kc 7h 2c. Tilly checks and Juanda bets $15,000. Tilly check raises $20,000 more and Juanda pushes her all in. She tanks, then [...]
Posted in Pro Circuit, Tournaments, WPT on May 23rd, 2007
Phil Ivey, whom many consider to be the best poker player in the world, came into today’s 2007 Mirage Poker Showdown final table as the chip leader looking to capture his first WPT title. Unfortunately it wasn’t meant to be…Here is the hand:
Hand 55: Phil Ivey Eliminated in Fifth Place ($129,684)
Hand 55: Jonathan Little bets [...]
Posted in High Stakes, Pro Circuit, TV, Tournaments, WPT on May 1st, 2007
Carlos Mortensen won the Season Five WPT Championship and the $3,970,415 prize. It was Carlos’ second WPT win to go along with his WSOP Main Event Championship, further establishing himself as one of the best ever to play.