Bin Weng won the second stop of the season, and he went on to crush the WPT and the poker world as a whole ( he’s going to win the GPI Player of the Year). The 2023 WPT Player of the Year race wasn’t that close.

WPT Player of the Year Bin Weng crushed the WPT in 2023! Here’s a look at the WPT Prime winners from 2023: In the end, it was Calvin Anderson winning the WPT Prime Championship for $1,386,280, which you can read about in full here. Song's payout in 2022 barely would have beat third-place money this year. The $1,100 buy-in tournament had a $5 million guarantee, but the prize pool hit $10,196,640 with 10,512 entrants, nearly double last year's turnout when Stephen Song won it for $712,650. In fact, there was only one in the United States and that was at the WPT World Championship. In 2023, there were 14 WPT Prime stops all across the globe. In addition to the Main Tour, the mid-major WPT Prime season was a success featuring $1,000-$1,500 buy-ins. $3,500 WPT Seminole Rock ‘N’ Roll Poker Open $3,500 WPT Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown The winner of the event was Indiana's Dan Sepiol, who bested a 52nd place finish in the inaugural WPT World Championship with a seven-figure payday at this year's event. That was an approximately 33% year-over-year growth (the 2022 WPT World Championship had 2,960 runners).

The WPT World Championship Festival is barely in the rearview mirror, and while the $10,400 buy-in WPT World Championship failed to hit its $40,000,000 guarantee – it fell about $2.4 million short – it was still a tremendous success with 3,835 entrants. So much so that many feel it’s giving the World Series of Poker (WSOP) a run for its money.Ĭheck out the WPT Hub on PokerNews here! Another Strong WPT Championship WPT World Championship at Wynn Las Vegas. Back that with ClubWPT reaching a largely recreational demographic, and the coffers of WPT Global adding a beneficial online element, and the WPT became even more powerful within the industry in 2023.

The WPT joining forces with Wynn Las Vegas, which is largely viewed as the best place to play poker in Las Vegas, proved to be a powerful alliance. That event would go on to win “Event of the Year” at the Global Poker Awards, while the Wynn’s Ray Pulford nabbed “Tournament Director of the Year” due in no small part to executing that tournament. The World Poker Tour (WPT) entered 2023 on a high note having successfully executed the first-ever WPT World Championship at Wynn Las Vegas in December 2022.

World Poker Tour Season XXII First Half Schedule of Main Events.

2023 WPT Player of the Year Leaderboard.

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