1. World Poker Winners
2. World Poker Tour Winners 2018
3. 2016 Poker Champion
4. Club World Poker Tour
5. Youtube Poker 2016
6. World Poker Tour
7. World Poker Tour Winner 2016 Results

German poker pro Dietrich Fast has won the 2016 World Poker Tour L.A. Poker Classic $10,000 buy-in no-limit hold’em main event, defeating a field of 515 players en route to his first WPT title.

[toc]Last season (Season XIV), the World Poker Tour replaced its season-ending Championship event with an invite-only Tournament of Champions.

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The inaugural TOC was successful enough that for the second consecutive year, the WPT will host a Tournament Of Champions. Once again there will be plenty of added value.

The upcoming TOC will take place after the season-ending Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown, capping off Season XV of the tour.

Why the WPT switched to the TOC

The change from the $15,000 Championship event to the TOC was spurred on by dwindling attendance numbers for the higher buy-in season finale. But even with the zeitgeist moving in that direction, the shift wasn’t without skeptics and criticism. This is because the Championship went from an open event to an invitation-only affair.

In the end 64 players participated in the inaugural event. This was in part due to the tournament being rake-free and the slew of additional prizes that WPT sponsors added, including a Corvette.

Who can play in the TOC?

By virtue of winning a WPT Season XV Championship event, the following 17 players have already punched their ticket to compete in the tournament.

So too will the winners of the Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown Main Event on March 31 and the Seminole Hard Rock Poker Finale on April 2:

• Seth Davies, partypoker WPT Canadian Spring Championship
• Andjelko Andrejevic, WPT Amsterdam
• James Mackey, WPT Choctaw
• Pat Lyons, WPT Legends of Poker
• Jesse Sylvia, WPT Borgata Poker Open
• Zachary Smiley, WPT Maryland Live!
• Sam Panzica, WPT bestbet Bounty Scramble
• Luis Rodriguez Cruz, partypoker WPT UK
• Mike Sexton, partypoker.net WPT Montreal
• Niall Farrell, partypoker WPT Caribbean
• Oleg Vasylchenko, partypoker WPT Prague
• James Romero, WPT Five Diamond World Poker Classic
• Daniel Weinman, WPT Borgata Winter Poker Open
• Ema Zajmovic, partypoker.net WPT Playground
• Darren Elias, WPT Fallsview Poker Classic
• Daniel Strelitz, WPT L.A. Poker Classic
• Mike Del Vecchio, WPT Rolling Thunder

In addition to the automatic qualifiers, all former WPT champions are welcome to enter the $15,000 buy-in tournament. And there are plenty of reasons for them to do so.

Plenty of added value for the TOC

Not only is the tournament rake-free, but it’s one of the few poker tournaments with value added to the prize pool. Players can thank the WPT’s generous sponsors for that.

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Monster Headphones has added $100,000 to the prize pool. The winner of the 2016/2017 TOC will also receive:

• A pair of Rose Gold Wireless Over-Ear Element Headphones from Monster
• A Hublot® King Power Unico Carbon and Red watch
• A custom premium poker table from BBO Poker Tables
• A seat in Tiger’s Poker Night Presented by World Poker Tour
• A one-week stay with Wyndham® Extra Holidays
• 2018 Audi S5 Coupe courtesy of Monster

Said Adam Pliska, CEO of the World Poker Tour:

“It is the World Poker Tour’s honor to celebrate its winners with the season-ending Monster WPT Tournament of Champions. We are incredibly thankful to all of our great partners for their significant contributions to the Season XV Monster WPT Tournament of Champions prize pool, as they have allowed the WPT to create an impressive overlay of cash and prizes in this rake-free event.

The WPT Champions Club is composed of the game’s most prestigious champions, but only one will be crowned the champion of champions this April and drive off in a brand new Audi S5.”

In addition to the winner’s package, all participants in the Season XV Monster WPT Tournament of Champions will receive a custom-fitted pair of sunglasses from Maui Jim®. Each member of the six-handed, televised final table will also receive a Monster Superstar Ravebox.

Action Clock will return

Another interesting wrinkle from last year’s TOC will also return: the Action Clock, which limits all decisions to 30 seconds.

Per the WPT:

“The Monster WPT Tournament of Champions will once again be played with the Action Clock created by Protection Poker. Players will have a 30-second clock for each action to help ensure an efficient pace of play and increase the strategy element for the Monster WPT Tournament of Champions.

Each player will receive five, 30-second time extensions that they can use at any time leading up to the final table. At the televised final table, all six players will reset with four, 30-second extensions.”

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The World Poker Tour is a series of high-stake poker tournaments that are broadcast globally in over 150 different countries. Developed by its parent company WPT Enterprises, Inc., the main poker tour is just one facet of the companies reach into poker. They also have an additional super high stakes tour, cruises, an online gaming site, additional poker tours, as well as several other smaller facets of the business.

WPT Enterprises, Inc. started their drive into the poker industry in 2002 and have been on an upward growth spike with significant expansion ever since. In 2009, the WPT was sold to PartyGaming for $12.3 million dollars. In 2014, the WPT formed an alliance with gaming provider Ourgame to begin expansion into the Asian market. Not more than a year later, the WPT elected to buy Ourgame for $35 million in an all cash offer.

The Main Poker Tour

The most notable aspect of the WPT brand is the World Poker Tour’s main tour. Winners of these marquee events have their names etched onto the Champion’s Cup and inducted into the Champion’s Club. Winners also receive a WPT bracelet and prize money usually in the high six to low seven figures range.

Most stops on the WPT have preliminary events leading up to the main event. The buy-ins for these preliminary events are always changing but usually, start around $500. The Main Event buy-ins also range in value from usually £2200 up to either $15,000 or $25,000 US for the season long championship event. The number of stops is usually somewhere between 15 and 20 locations all around the world.

The season culminates in the World Championship event that for many years was a $25,000 event at the Bellagio in Las Vegas. Over the past few years, the buy-in for the Championship event has dropped to $15,000, and the location has fluctuated. The name of the event was also changed from the WPT Championship to the WPT World Championship at the end of season 8 and to the WPT Tournament of Champions going into season 14.

All of the WPT events are open to all participants as long as you have the cash for the buy-in. It is a common misconception that there are “tour cards” or some system like that needed to be involved in a major poker tour. Part of the allure of poker and these major tours is that anyone can come compete if they have the money to pay the entry fee.

The WPT has two different systems for determining the season champion and the Player of the Year. Season Champion is decided by the player who wins the end of the year Main Event. It does not matter if the player has won or even competed in any earlier tournaments, just how they finish in the final event.

The prize pools of the WPT Championship events saw a rise from season 1 through season 6, but have seen a steady decline ever since. Here is the list of former Champions as well as how much they won for winning first prize:

World Poker Tour Winners 2018

While this player is known as the Champion, most people hold the Player of the Year in much higher regard as it is how the player performed throughout the entire season and not just one event. This eliminates a lot of variance and gives a much better picture of who the strongest player on the tour is.

2016 Poker Champion

For seasons 1-8, the final 7 players in each main event were awarded Player of the Year points. The player who finishes the season with the most points is deemed the Player of the Year for that season. Points awarded for seasons 1-8 were as follows:

• 1^st Place – 1,000 points
• 2^nd Place – 700 points
• 3^rd Place – 600 points
• 4^th Place – 500 points
• 5^th Place – 400 points
• 6^th Place – 300 points
• 7^th Place – 200 points

At the end of season 8, the system was changed to award Player of the Year points to all players that finished in the money of the tournament. As the payout structure usually pays around 10% of the field, 10% of the field is awarded points on a sliding scale with the bottom of the scale awarding a minimum of 50 points.

Here is the list of Player of the Year winners until now:

• Season 1: Howard Lederer
• Season 2: Erick Lindgren
• Season 3: Daniel Negreanu
• Season 4: Gavin Smith
• Season 5: J. C. Tran
• Season 6: Jonathan Little
• Season 7: Bertrand Grospellier
• Season 8: Faraz Jaka
• Season 9: Andy Frankenberger
• Season 10: Joe Serock
• Season 11: Matthew Salsberg
• Season 12: Mukul Pahuja
• Season 13: Anthony Zinno
• Season 14: Mike Shariati
• Season 15: Benjamin Zamani

Club World Poker Tour

In 2013, the World Poker Tour added a super high roller series known as the Alpha 8. So far, each season has had four events, each with a $100,000 buy-in event (and a £60,000 event in London). Currently, the WPT doesn’t have any events listed for this year, but there have been no reports of the events being canceled.

Youtube Poker 2016

Each season since 2015, the WPT has added events with buy-ins of $550. These aim to be a more accessible buy-in to allow players of all skill levels the opportunity to play in WPT events.

World Poker Tour

World Poker Tour Winner 2016 Results

The birth child of Chris Torina, the Deepstacks Live Poker Tour merged with the WPT to form WPT-Deepstacks in 2016. The tournament series are held all over the world and are one of the strongest growing parts of the WPT name. Buy-ins range from a couple hundred to the main events that are usually $1100 with a season ending Main Event Championship of $2500. These events are meant to be accessible, yet still lucrative enough to draw in some of the top talents in the industry.