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Frozen In Time: Ted Forrest v J. J. Liu |
| Breaking new ground in the world of tournament poker has long been a hallmark of the WPT – and back in 2007 the tour was only millimetres away from completing another milestone achievement as J. J. Liu fell just short of becoming the first ever female player to win a WPT |
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Italian Stallion Gallops To Victory |
| Another European foray for the WPT ended in a Venice victory for Alessio Isaia, but only after the longest heads-up battle in tour history |
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Running Late... But for a Good Reason |
| Unlike the late registration game of “Buy-in Chicken” that we’ve seen at the Bellagio events during the last few seasons of the WPT, mostly everyone got in their seats on time for the Foxwoods tournament. It might have been due to the fact that there was a gaming control board-approved formula |
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Howard Lederer v Layne Flack |
| Long, long ago when $10,000 buy-in tournaments would attract fields of less than 100, multiple big names could be found on every single table, and check-raising was still considered uncouth, Howard Lederer won his first ever WPT title at the World Poker Open. |
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Frozen in Time: Dan Harrington v David ‘The Dragon’ Pham |
| We’ve spent a fair few inches of column space on this page handing out platitudes to poker’s bright young things, but what about the old school, the original standard-bearers of poker excellence and their achievements on the World Poker Tour? |
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The New Great Dane |
| Theo Jorgensen made light work of his final table as he triumphed at the WPT Grand Prix de Paris. |
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Hellmuth Melts Down in San Jose |
| Bounties, bustouts and breakdowns were the stories that came out of the Bay 101 Shooting Star event last month. |
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Tuan Le v Paul Maxfield |
| For some people, World Poker Tour titles are a bit like London buses; you wait and wait for what seems like an eternity, and ultimately one never shows up. Thankfully, however, the WPT has never counted TFL among its partners – and for a lucky few of poker’s elite, titles instead |
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Southern Poker Championship |
| Not playing raggy aces in Texas Hold’em is an oft-recited mantra by the more savvy exponents of the game. King-rag is a whole separate concept, though, and to get tangled up with a weak king either takes the heart of a champion or the brain of a lunatic. Which camp Faraz |
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Carry on Cimpan |
| Andrew Cimpan made it two WPT titles in a year at the latest Foxwoods Finals. Last year the biggest casino in the world saw the little man of poker, Jonathan Little, outlast a field of 412 players to win his second WPT title and claim $1.2 million, beating a stacked final |
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