In this week’s Calling the Clock we focus on three separate news stories featuring Art Papazyan, Jason Koon, and Anton Wigg, things liven up in South America and a whole lot more. 

Art Papazyan is the overwhelming favourite to win the Hublot sponsored World Poker Tour (WPT) Player of the Year (POY) race after winning his second WPT Main Event in the past five weeks.

Papazyan, an unheard of force in the live tournament world before his two victories, took down WPT Maryland at Live! Casino Main Event, defeating 561 entrants on his way to a $389,405 first prize. Papazyan also won the WPT Legends of Poker Main Event trawling through 763 entrants to secure the top prize of $668,692. Papazyan has twice as many WPT POY points as his nearest contender.

It was a week when the WPT showed what a global force it is. While Papazyan was doing the business in the States, Bian Yang defeated 175 entrants on her way to the $50,256 first prize at WPT Korea. And Adam Pliska announced plans to take the team to Argentina for the first time in 2018.