World Poker Tour: Greatest
World Poker Tour ignited the global poker boom with a unique television show based on a series of high-stakes tournaments. WPT events turned Gus Hansen into the Great Dane and Daniel Negreanu into Kid Poker, and created dozens of poker-made millionaires.
Best of Season I WPT Five Diamond World Poker Classic
WPT Greatest Final Tables takes a look back at the ten most exciting final tables in World Poker Tour history. On this episode, we revisit the final table of the World Poker Tour's first tournament ever featuring some of poker's greatest and most legendary players, including Scotty Nguyen, John Juanda and Gus Hansen who was a total unknown back then, battling it out at the Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas for a top prize of $500,000 and a chance to be the very first WPT title holder. Other competitors at this final table include the great Freddy Deeb, former pro pool player John Hennigan and conservative Swiss player Chris Bigler. Aggressive play characterizes this final table as the World Poker Tour's debut season gets off the ground.
Best of Season VIII WPT Borgata Poker Open
WPT Greatest Final Tables takes a look back at the ten best final tables in World Poker Tour history. Tonight we head to Atlantic City and the Season Eight Borgata Poker Open. Six players remain but only one will walk away with the WPT title and almost $1 million in prize money. The final six include Canadians Yanick Brodeur and Ivan Mamuzic, Kenny "Super Twan" Nguyen, Philadelphia real estate investor Keith Crowder, New York accountant Jeremy Brown and New York city heads-up expert Olivier Busquet. In addition to exciting, aggressive play, this final table features lots of drinking, trash talk and one of the greatest comebacks of all time
Best of Season VII WPT World Championship
WPT Greatest Final Tables takes a look back at the ten most thrilling final tables in World Poker Tour history. On this one, we head back to Las Vegas and Season Seven of the World Poker tour for the WPT World Championship at Bellagio. This tournament brought out all of the biggest players in the poker world, including stars like Daniel Negreanu, Phil Ivey and Jennifer Harman. But only six made it to the final table, this one a mixture of amateurs versus pros and old schoolers versus young guns, all vying for a top prize of more than $2.1 million and a WPT championship title. The final six include old time WPT champ Scotty Nguyen, Israeli businessman Ran Azor, and twenty-something pros Elky Grospellier whose standing as WPT Player of the Year depends on how he finishes at this table, the Tuscaloosa Kid Shannon Shorr, internet sensation Christian Harder and 21 year old phenom Yevgeniy Timoshenko.
Best of Season IV WPT LA Poker Classic
WPT Greatest Final Tables takes a look back at the ten most thrilling final tables in World Poker Tour history. On this episode, we revisit the final table of the Season Four LA Poker Classic which pits pro Steve Simmons, retired Wall Street businessman and WPT champ Alan Goehring, WPT champ JC Tran, Swedish self-proclaimed little fish Per "Nemo" Ummer, L.A. local Michael Woo and former dealer Daniel Quach against one another at Southern California's Commerce Casino. Competition is fierce and unorthodox play abounds as these six contenders battle it out on the felt for a total prize pool of almost $7 million, the winner taking home $2.4 million.
Best of Season II WPT Jack Binion World Poker Open
WPT Greatest Final Tables takes a look back at the ten best final tables in World Poker Tour history. This time, we revisit Season Two's Jack Binion World Poker Open from the home of the river boat gambler, Tunica, Mississippi. Six players remain to fight their way to a first prize of more than a million bucks as well as a WPT title. The lone amateur gives the pros a run for their money as retired car wash owner James Tippin faces Elvis aficionado Tony "The Big House" Hartman, philanthropist Barry Greenstein, Vietnamese American pro Can Kim Hua, Randy "the Dream Crusher" Jensen and Chip Reese, who is widely regarded as the greatest cash game player of all time. Prayers are answered and dreams are crushed as these final six battle it out for a top prize of $1.2 million on the Mighty Mississippi, where poker began.
Best of Season V WPT Five Diamond World Poker Classic
WPT Greatest Final Tables takes a look back at the ten most exciting final tables in World Poker Tour history. On this episode, we revisit one of the most exciting, most cutthroat, most epic final tables ever at one of the biggest and richest poker tournaments of the fifth season, Bellagio's Five Diamond World Poker Classic. The winner of it all would walk away with $2.2 million. Because of the large payout and prestigious title, this tournament attracted some of the world's greatest players, including Daniel Negreanu from Canada, Mads Andersen from Denmark and Australian Joe Hachem who all made it to the final six. This final table, which features one of the worst beats of all time, also includes Ed "EBJ" Jordan, youngster David Redlin and former New Orleans Saint Jim Hanna.
Best of Season IX WPT Doyle Brunson Five Diamond World Poker Classic
WPT Greatest Final Tables takes a look back at the ten most significant final tables in World Poker Tour history. On tonight's episode, we head back for the thrilling conclusion of one of the most action packed and star stacked final tables in World Poker Tour history, the Season Nine Doyle Brunson Five Diamond World Poker Classic at the Bellagio Hotel. The action has been reduced to only three players still vying for the almost $900,000 top prize, WPT champ Antonio Esfandiari who happens to be celebrating a birthday, cash game pro Andrew Robl and Lady Maverick herself Vanessa Rousso. Top notch play characterizes this final table that features skilled betting, skilled bluffing and tense moments as players try to read one another. It all comes down to an tense heads up battle that remains neck and neck right to the end.
Best of Season VI WPT LA Poker Classic
WPT Greatest Final Tables takes a look back at the ten best final tables in World Poker Tour history. Tonight we head back to Season Six of the World Poker Tour and the LA Poker Classic at Commerce Casino. This final table features two of poker's heaviest hitters, Phil Ivey and Poker Brat Phil Hellmuth. Phil Ivey takes his eighth try at a WPT title, as he's made it to seven previous final tables but has come up short every time. This episode also features outbursts from the Poker Brat that explain how he got his nickname. It's not a shoe-in for either of these two pros, though, as their competition is fierce in the fight for the nearly $1.6 million top prize, featuring the likes of former WPT champ Nam Le, restaurateur Quinn Do, former English teacher Scott Montgomery and former oilman and Hawaiian shirt wearer Woody Moore.
Best of Season V WPT World Championship
WPT Greatest Final Tables takes a look back at the ten most memorable final tables in World Poker Tour history. On this episode, we revisit the final stop of our fifth season, the WPT World Championship, World Poker Tour's 100th tournament and the biggest and most prestigious event in the history of the World Poker Tour with the largest prize pool ever and the largest first place prize ever, close to $4 million. This show features a mix of amateurs and pros, with the big what-if being whether World Series of Poker champ Carlos Mortensen will become the first player ever to capture the title at the main events of both the World Series of Poker and the World Poker Tour. His competition includes pros Tim Phan, Mike Wattel and Kirk Morrison as well as amateurs Paul Lee and Cirque du Soleil founder and billionaire Guy De La Liberte who doesn't need the money but craves that WPT title as much as the next guy.
Best of Season III WPT Grand Prix de Paris
WPT Greatest Final Tables takes a look back at the ten most memorable final tables in World Poker Tour history. This time we revisit the final table of Season Three's Gran Prix de Paris at the beautiful Aviation Club de France. Six players are left after days of grueling play, all of whom are anxious to capture the WPT title and the more than $800,000 in prize money. A glamorous high stakes tournament in an elegant location, this event always seems to brings out colorful characters. This night is no exception as trashmouthed Australian poker pro Tony G. does his best to get his fellow final table players off their game. His opponents include the UK's David Colclough, Ben Roberts and Surinder Sunar, Ireland's Peter Roche and lone American, shop foreman and amateur poker player Jim Overman.
