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Cornel Cimpan erased a nearly 4-1 chip defecit to eliminate Soheil Shamseddin heads-up Tuesday night at Foxwoods to take down the World Poker Tour World Poker Finals and collect his second WPT title of 2009.
Cimpan’s share of the prizepool was $910,058 – slightly more than half of the $1,686,760 he won in February for winning the LA Poker Classic. [...]

The poker world’s attention might be focused on the World Series of Poker Main Event finale in Las Vegas but there is a World Poker Tour event that also has a final table worth getting excited over.
Leading the way at the WPT Foxwoods World Poker Finals  is Cornel Cimpan with 3,691,000 of the 10,588,000 chips [...]

After three days of play the question of who will win this year’s World Poker Finals title is getting fairly close to a resolution, as only 27 players of the original field 353 remain in contention. But trying to pick who the winner will be right now is still a fool’s game, mostly because the [...]

The World Poker Tour returned to action today with the first day of the 2009 World Poker Finals at Foxwoods Resort Casino at the Mashantucket Pequot Nation in Connecticut.
The $10,000 WPF main event continued a recent WPT trend of declining attendance; it drew 353 players, down from last year’s 412-player field that was topped by [...]

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LA Poker Classic schedule released
There are two schools of thought on where the world’s [...]

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Mandalay Media tenders last-minute offer for World Poker Tour
The World Poker Tour Enterprises Board of [...]

Just as World Poker Tour Entertainment stockholders were sitting down to discuss, and presumably vote on, the $12.3 million offer from PartyGaming another group has put forth a much larger bid.
Mandalay Media, which is not related to the Las Vegas casino of the same name, has offered $35 million for the WPTE assets and has [...]

Tommy Vedes has made some noise in 2009.

Earlier this summer Tommy Vedes was denied his shot at poker glory with a 19th place finish in the World Series of Poker Main Event but on Monday night he made up for it. Vedes overcame what could have been a record-tying final table to capture the World [...]

Freddy Deeb has two World Poker Tour titles to his credit and if things go according to his plan on Monday, he’ll be walking away from the Festa Al Lago at Bellagio with his third.
Deeb holds the chip lead as the final six players will return to the Bellagio on Monday to play down to [...]

The decision to allow players to register for the $15,000 World Poker Tour Festa Al Lago up until halfway through Day 2 might have raised a few eyebrows but it also produced some interesting results and the player who stands to benefit the most is Jason Somerville.
Thirty players took advantage of the extended registration including [...]

Phil Hellmuth didn’t play a single hand on Day 1 of the World Poker Tour Festa al Lago on Wednesday. Rather than skip his customary first level or two the Poker Brat, along with Howard Lederer, took the entire first day off after Bellagio tournament director Jack McLelland announced that registration would be open until the end [...]

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Penn. governor sets tax floor for table games
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What’s next for AJ Benza?
A.J. Benza, the High Stakes Poker co-host who was recently let [...]

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Government kills liberalizes French online poker market
The French parliament passed a bill this week to [...]

Ten days ago Olivier Busquet was in the semi-finals of the $25,000 buy-in World Championship of Online Poker on PokerStars going head-to-head with Jonathan Jaffe for a shot at the $315,000 first place money. That didn’t go so well as he lost to the eventual champion. Thursday went much better for Busquet.
The Frenchman maneuvered his [...]

Ten days ago Olivier Busquet was in the semi-finals of the $25,000 buy-in World Championship of Online Poker on PokerStars going head-to-head with Jonathan Jaffe for a shot at the $315,000 first place money. That didn’t go so well as he lost to the eventual champion. Thursday went much better for Busquet.
The Frenchman maneuvered his [...]

The World Poker Tour’s Borgata Poker Open has a televised final table of six players and chances are you’re not that familiar with any of them. The $3,500 buy-in, lowest for any WPT televised event, combined with having a number of the game’s more recognizable faces in London for WSOP Europe most likely contributed to [...]

The largest field in World Poker Tour history is down to just 27 players and Yanick Brodeur is leading the way. Tuesday’s action went much faster than expected with 167 players getting down to the final 27 in just 12 hours.
Brodeur bagged up 3,016,000 chips at the end of the night while only one other player managed [...]

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Negreanu takes on poker blogs
Daniel Negreanu’s newest blog is about, well, poker blogs. Kid Poker [...]

The poker world’s attention might be in London at WSOP Europe or in Los Angeles with the continuing Commerce Hold’em Series but on Saturday and Sunday the World Poker Tour turned some heads with the first WPT event to ever attract over 1,000 players.
The Borgata Poker Open brought out 1,018 players each paying $3,500 for [...]