World Poker Tour Winner 2016
| WSOP Titles | WPT Titles | EPT Titles | Poker Earnings | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gus Hansen | 1 | 4 | 0 | $11,240,678 |
| 2 | Carlos Mortensen | 2 | 3 | 0 | $11,598,083 |
| 3 | Erick Lindgren | 2 | 2 | 0 | $9,881,849 |
| 4 | Howard Lederer | 2 | 2 | 0 | $6,571,538 |
| 5 | Clonie Gowen | 0 | 1 | 0 | $1,639,064 |
| 6 | David Benyamine | 1 | 1 | 0 | $7,047,146 |
| 7 | Erik Seidel | 8 | 1 | 0 | $21,499,344 |
| 8 | Gavin Smith | 1 | 1 | 0 | $5,959,186 |
| 9 | Phil Gordon | 0 | 1 | 0 | $2,786,896 |
| 10 | Phil Ivey | 9 | 1 | 0 | $17,649,220 |
| 11 | Roland de Wolfe | 1 | 1 | 1 | $5,330,556 |
| 12 | JC Tran | 2 | 1 | 0 | $10,416,658 |
What is the World Poker Tour
2,100.00 Points. 1,700.00 Points. 1,700.00 Points. Daniel Dvoress Takes Down Mike Sexton Classic for $294,346, as $8.5M WPT. World Poker Tour® and partypoker LIVE partner for WPT® Russia. Two Final Tables, One Victory: Mike Watson Dominates the Night in WPT Montreal. Main Tour Schedule. Our marquee international tournaments where winners enter the illustrious Champions Club™ and have their name etched on the coveted Champions Cup™. Current Season Season XIX (2021-2022) Season XVIII (2019-2021) Season XVII (2018-2019) Season XVI (2017-2018) Season XV (2016-2017) Season XIV (2015-2016) Season XIII (2014. Below are the results of season 18 of the World Poker Tour (2019-20). There are 21 scheduled events. As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, several events on the schedule have been postponed.In addition, three final tables that were supposed to take place at the HyperX Esports Arena at the Luxor Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas have also been delayed.
The World Poker Tour is a series of world class poker tournaments that have been running since 2002. It’s popularity contributed massively to the poker boom which introduced millions of players into the sport of poker.
The tour was created by Steven Lipscomb who is a Television producer. Steven grew the tour into one of the most prestigious and most watched poker events on television, with large fields, large prizes and all the top players helping to propel the WPT to the top of the TV ratings.
Revolutionising Poker on TV
For the first five seasons of the tour the Travel Channel bought the rights and broadcast the TV shows. Later on this switched to GSN in the USA whilst other channels all over the World also broadcast the glitz and bright lights of the WPT final tables.
The TV shows are hosted by poker legend Mike Sexton and his co-host Vince Van Patten. Some of the most famous moments in poker have happened at WPT final tables with the camera’s watching.
Not Just for Men
Although many Female Poker Players take part in the World Poker Tour events, the tour has always ran a specialised event available only for women entrants. In 2008 they expanded this by creating a series of tournament for women called WPT Ladies with buys in ranging from $300 to $1,500. This didn’t really catch on and there are no ladies only events included in the current season schedule, although there continues to be a strong female contingent in the entrants to WPT events.
The Future of the WPT
Lipscomb remained as CEO up until November 2009 when PartyGaming (the company behind Party Poker) purchased the WPT for a fee of $12.3million.
It was also in 2009 that the WPT started to award winners of its tournaments with bracelets, very similar to the World Series of Poker which has always awarded a valuable bracelet as a trophy to each winner. This has always been popular amongst poker players with the phrase “how many bracelets has he/she won” well understood as how many WSOP events have they won. Previous winners of WPT events were also given a bracelet retroactively in order to keep it consistent and try to bring the WPT into the poker craze of counting bracelets.
PartyGaming have also introduced a second series of the tour under their PartyPoker brand name, focusing mainly on European Stops in an attempt to compete with the hugely popular European Poker Tour, which is part owned by their rival Pokerstars.
The 2016 World Poker Tour Five Diamond World Poker Classic Main Event concluded on Saturday with James Romero never relinquishing the chip lead he entered the final table with. Romero took down the tournament's top prize of $1,938,118.
Romero, who competed against a tough final table which included Justin Bonomo, Jake Schindler and Igor Yaroshevskyy, was relatively unheard of in live tournament circles prior to his victory. According to The Hendon Mob, the Portland, Oregon native previously only recorded two live tournament cashes for a total of $4,699.
2016 WPT Five Diamond World Poker Classic Final Table Results
| Place | Player | Prize |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | James Romero | $1,938,118* |
| 2 | Ryan Tosoc | $1,124,051 |
| 3 | Jake Schindler | $736,579 |
| 4 | Alex Condon | $494,889 |
| 5 | Justin Bonomo | $345,272 |
| 6 | Igor Yaroshevskyy | $268,545 |
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*First-prize amount includes a $15,000 seat into the season-ending WPT Tournament of Champions.
The tournament established a new WPT Five Diamond World Poker Classic Main Event record with 791 entrants joining the field, including reentries. The previous record was established almost a decade ago, when in 2007, Ukraine's Eugene Katchalov outlasted a field of 664 entrants to bank $2,482,605, the biggest win of his poker career. The field size also tied the WPT record in $10,000 buy in events with the 2007 WPT L.A. Poker Classic, an event won by Eric Hershler for $2,429,970.
James Romero entered the final table with a significant lead of 9,860,000, or more than double that of Day 4 chip leader Ryan Tosoc, who was in second place with 4,465,000.
It took 59 hands before anyone was eliminated from the tournament. However, a trio of players then hit the rails in quick succession. First to go was Igor Yaroshevskyy in sixth place for $268,545 after he shoved all in for 14 big blinds with ace-ten and was unable to improve against Romero's queens.
Just two hands later, Justin Bonomo hit the showers in fifth place for $345,272, after he three-bet shoved 10 big blinds with pocket fives and received no assistance from the board after Jake Schindler called with sevens.
World Poker Tour Winner 2016 Results
The next to go was Alex Condon, when three hands later, he shoved 12 big blinds with queen-nine. Romero called with fives and won the flip after the board ran out all blanks to eliminate Condon in fourth place for $494,889.
It wasn't for another two-and-a-half hours before the next elimination took place, when on the 120th hand of the final table, Jake Schindler exited the tournament in third place for $736,579. With blinds at 75,000/150,000 (ante 25,000) Schindler three-bet shoved 4,095,000 with pocket sixes and Romero called with king-jack. Romero spiked a pair on the king-high flop and heads-up play began after blanks appeared on the turn and river.
Romero, who already eliminated three of the four players to be eliminated, entered heads-up play at a seven-to-one chip advantage over his opponent, Tosoc. While Tosoc was able to chip-up a bit early in heads-up play, he found his stack going back down to where it started eventually.
On the 16th hand of heads-up play and the 136th hand of the final table, Tosoc shoved for 13 big blinds with pocket fives. Romero quickly called with kings and etched his name into the WPT history books by shipping the title and the $1,938,118 (including a $15,000 seat into the season-ending WPT Tournament of Champions) after Tosoc's hand was unable to improv.
Ryan Tosoc collected the runner-up prize of $1,124,051 to bring his total career live tournament earnings to close to $1.5 million. According to The Hendon Mob, Tosoc's previous biggest prize came just a few months ago. In September he took fourth place as part of a four-way deal in the Venetian DeepStack Extravaganza for $125,523.
The World Poker Tour Season XV resumes in the new year when it heads to Atlantic City, New Jersey, on Jan. 29 to Feb. 3 for the $3,500 WPT Borgata Winter Poker Open Main Event, which features a $3 million guaranteed prize pool.
*Lead image and data courtesy of WorldPokerTour.com
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