World Poker Tour, LLC News

WPT Enterprises reports financial results for the first quarter ended April 1, 2007.

The World Poker Tour is moving its fledgling online poker room to the Cryptologic platform in June after more than a year of struggling on the WagerWorks network.

Full Tilt Poker pro Carlos "The Matador" Mortensen, rallied through three hours of grueling heads-up play against Kirk Morrison to win the 2007 WPT Five Star World Poker Classic.

Yahoo! UK & Ireland launched its first attempt at real-money poker, coupling the power of 20.7 million unique visitors per month with a trusted brand to attract customers in countries friendly to online gambling.

The contrast in styles between the calm European and the brash American couldn’t be anymore apparent, but regardless of their differences, European Poker Tour Champion Roland de Wolfe and 10-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner Phil Hellmuth are in the same position – atop the leader board.

Rags-to-riches-to-hero, Anna Wroblewski was the big story in Vegas last week after turning $300 into $330,000. Now she has a commanding lead at the WPT Championship event.

The World Poker Tour, which earlier this week scrapped plans to tape the Grand Prix de Paris, will add a stop in Spain to replace the tournament in its Season Six schedule. The tournament will be held at Casino Barcelona, operated by Grup Peralada, in October, 2007.

WPT Enterprises, Inc. reports that the television premiere of the World Poker Tour's fifth anniversary season will launch Wednesday, April 4 at 9pm ET/PT on the Travel Channel with The Mirage Poker Showdown kicking off the new season.

Hands-On Mobile, Inc. and World Poker Tour Enterprises, Inc. today announced a multi-year extension to their highly successful deal to continue to bring the wildly popular World Poker Tour Texas Hold 'Em and other products to mobile phones worldwide.

Amateur poker player Adam Weinraub has won the 5th Annual World Poker Tour Invitational, an invitation-only event and the most glamorous stop of the poker circuit.

The L.A. Poker Classic Championship event at Commerce Casino smashed records for largest field and largest prize money ever for a $10,000-buy-in World Poker Tour event.

Consumers have a chance to win "Sweet Seats" to the World Series of Poker Main Event, thanks to an agreement between Harrah's License Company, LLC, an affiliate of Harrah's Entertainment, Inc. and The Hershey Company.

Six players have advanced to the WPT Final Table at Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa.

Emily Flax of Provincetown, Massachusetts, won the Ladies Event at the WPT event hosted by the Borgata Hotel Casino.

The World Poker Tour has released its schedule of events for its sixth season, and the lucrative, made-for-TV tournament poker circuit will again have a strong Las Vegas presence.