The World Poker Tour has called ‘time’ on the Gardens Poker Championships in California, with Frank Stepuchin leading a final table that resumes live from the HyperX Esports Arena at the Luxor Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas in March.

The World Poker Tour (WPT) Gardens Poker Championship is over, for now. The final six players now have an anxious wait until March 12 when they reconvene to find out who will win the $548,825 first prize when the bright lights of the HyperX Esports Arena at the Luxor Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, attempt to puff up their faces like a blister.

It seemed like an odd choice to hold a $10,000 WPT Championship event with PokerStars dragging most of the high rolling oil rockers to the Bahamas for a blitz of high stakes action including the softest $25,000 in the history of the game.

There was no begging bowl.