The World Poker Tour and Theta Labs, a decentralized video delivery network, have announced an exclusive partnership aimed at giving poker fans the ability to own WPT digital collectibles in what the companies are calling “the world’s first real-time NFT marketplace.”

For the fourth time in 12 years, the World Poker Tour has new ownership. The WPT made the announcement on Tuesday that a private investment firm had purchased the company from Allied Esports Entertainment for more than $78 million.

The World Poker Tour and partypoker have tabled their hand with their summer plans. On Friday, the two premier poker brands announced the first-ever WPT World Online Championships, a nearly two-month-long online series that offers players a shot at becoming a WPT champion while guaranteeing $100,000,000 million in total prize money.

ClubWPT, the sweepstakes-based online poker membership club of the World Poker Tour, is upping its game for 2020. If a ClubWPT VIP member qualifies for a WPT Main Tour event and then goes on to win that WPT Main Tour event that they qualified, the qualifier will win an additional $1,000,000.

The World Poker Tour announced the core of their Season XVIII Main Tour schedule this week. The lineup includes 13 events in the United States plus another four international events as a part of their continued partnership with partypoker LIVE.

Earlier this summer Adam Pliska’s phone rang. On the other end of the call was an executive recruiter. It wasn’t anything out of the ordinary. They call every now and then. This wasn’t just some cold call gauging the 45-year-old’s interest in looking for another job though – they had a legitimate offer and were… Continue reading THE FAMILY, MAN: The World Poker Tour’s Adam Pliska

Longtime online poker tournament specialist Ryan ‘HITTHEPANDA’ Franklin took down the PokerStars Sunday Million for a cash prize of $159,701 with fellow veteran Anatoly ‘NL_Profit’ Filatov of Russia finishing second for $112,069 and #400-ranked ‘vip25459‘ placing third for $78,646. ‘Alexey5758‘ was awarded $55,192 in fourth place while ‘fatboi‘ of the United Kingdom walked away with… Continue reading SUNDAY MAJORS: Ryan Franklin Wins Sunday Million for $159,700

Tony Dunst made the move from hosting the World Poker Tour’s Raw Deal segment to the commentary booth for Season XVI of the WPT, leaving a large void to be filled. In grand fashion, none other than Phil Hellmuth is joining the WPT team as the new Raw Deal analyst. The move comes as the… Continue reading WPT Replaces Tony Dunst with Phil Hellmuth as Raw Deal Host

Fret not poker fans. New episodes of the World Poker Tour are coming to Fox Sports Regional soon. Really soon actually. Beginning this Sunday, March 12, Fox Sports Regional will begin airing 27 episodes from Season XV of the World Poker Tour. This marks the beginning of a five-year extension that WPT signed with Fox… Continue reading World Poker Tour Season XV Debuts Sunday on Fox Sports Regional

To the surprise of many, the World Poker Tour announced last November that it would be scrapping its annual season-ending WPT Championship in favor of an invite-only Tournament of Champions event. With the event a little over a month away, the WPT has released some more details on the exclusive event, including the introduction of… Continue reading WPT Adds $200K in Cash and Prizes to Tournament of Champions

In 2013, David “Chino” Rheem (pictured) won the World Poker Tour Championship at the Bellagio in Las Vegas for $1.1 million, defeating a field of 146 entrants in the $25,000 buy-in tournament. This year, the WPT’s season finale moved east to Borgata in Atlantic City, where, according to F5 Poker, Rheem had a free entry… Continue reading Did Chino Rheem Forget He Had a Free WPT Championship Seat?