Lee Davy covers news from the World Poker Tour (including the creation of the Bobby Baldwin Classic), the Super High Roller Bowl expanding to China and much more.
I’m going to begin this week’s picnic of poker by focusing on the World Poker Tour (WPT) who started and ended three different events this week.
The most recent to end saw Darryll Fish overcome a field of 911 entrants to win his first major title, and career-high $511,604 in prize money, in the WPT Lucky Hearts Poker Open Main Event at the Seminole Hard Rock Casino & Hotel in Hollywood, Florida. Nesrine Reilly (4th) and Andy Frankenberger (3rd) also made the final table.
It was Reilly’s second final table of the Lucky Hearts Poker Open after finishing eighth in the WPTDeepStacks Main Event. Scott Baumstein took that one down for a career-high $220,238 after overcoming a field of 1,366 entrants.