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 IV WPT Five Diamond World Poker Classic
WPT Greatest Tales from the Felt takes a look back at the most legendary final tables in WPT history. On this episode, we revisit the final table at season four's, Five Diamond World Poker Classic from Bellagio in Las Vegas. This final table was tough and featured Doyle Brunson, JJ Liu, Patrik Antonious, the "Unabomber" Phil Laak, and "Gigabet" Darrel Dickens. The amateur at the table was Rehne Pederson who got in off of $100 online tournament. They are all competing for a chance to win over 2 million dollars. With a star studded final table the competition is tough and the poker player is some of the best ever at a WPT final table.
Best of Season VII WPT Festa al Lago
WPT Greatest Tales from the Felt takes a look back at the most legendary final tables in WPT history. On this episode, we revisit the final table at season 7 Festa a Lago that features Elky Grosspellier and his massive chip lead. Elky displays his bad boy mentality and tries to bully everyone at the table. But in his way are notable players Nam Le, Oddie Dardon and Nenad Medic all who won't let him run them over for the 1.4 million dollar first place prize and a WPT title. Elky's chip lead never seems that safe as the remaining 5 players make smart bets it their efforts to take down the chip leader. This episode asks the question, how do you stand up to the bully at the table?
Best of Season V WPT North American Poker Classic
WPT Greatest Tales from the Felt looks back at the most memorable final tables over the years and this week its season five and the North American Poker Classic from the Falls View casino in Niagara Falls. The winner of this tournament would take home a 1.2 million dollar first place price and a WPT title. This tournament features a mix of pros and amateurs battling it out and has some dramatic swings in chip leads and some head scratching poker play. The one true star at the table is John Juwanda but the other pros at the table are very capable as well they are Mark Karam, "Big Bird" Jason Sagel and "the Crazy Canuck" Jim Worth. The amateurs are a couple of guys who got in off inexpensive satellites an IT guy John Lam and an auto factory worker Soren Turkewitsch. Can the amateurs take down the pros?
Best of Season III WPT LA Poker Classic
WPT Greatest Tales from the Felt takes a look back at the most legendary final tables in WPT history. This week it's season three and the LA poker classic from the Commerce Casino in Los Angeles. The 1.8 million dollar first place prize at the time was the largest on the west coast. The final table featured 5 pros and one amateur competing for it. The pro's are some of the biggest names in the game in the pro's pro Ted Forrest, WPT player of the year Erick Lindgren and Michael "the Grinder" Mizrachi. Michael at the time was at his second consecutive final table looking for his first WPT title. The remaining pros at the table were Hung La and professional sports better Haralabos Voulgaris. Is this the tournament where Michael Mizrachi gets his first WPT win and goes on to become one of pokers elite players?
Best of Season VIII WPT Celebrity Invitational
WPT Greatest Tales from the Felt looks back at final tables where the stories were as dynamic as the action. This week, we head back to season 8 and the WPT Celebrity Invitational from the Commerce casino in Los Angeles. The celebrity invitations were a lot of fun because it had the celebrities wanting to play with the poker pro's, the poker pro's got to play with the celebrities and the public had a chance to play by winning inexpensive satellites. This final table is a fun one that featured 4 amateurs, 1 celebrity and 1 pro. The celebrity is Trishelle Cannatella from MTV's the real world and the pro is the Norwegian godfather of poker, Thor Hanson. Going into action the amateurs sit a top the chip lead and they are Leron Washington and Sean Urban. There is $100,000 and a WPT title on the line, who will come on top at one of the most entertaining tournaments in WPT history?
Best of Season IX WPT Borgata
WPT Greatest tales from the felt looks back at the final tables where the stories were as exciting as the action. This week we head back to season nine and the Borgata Poker Open from Atlantic City and the winner would take home more then $700,000 and a WPT title. It seems every year the Borgata Poker open is known as much for it's over the top personalities as much as the poker play itself. Season nine is no different and this final table is a lively one that features Dwite Pilgrim a poker pro who took table talk to whole new level while he set out to shock the world. The other poker pro's at the table are Ofir Mor, Daniel Makowsky and Kia Mohajeri. The table talk got so heated at times it resembled a professional wrestling match, but when the dust settles only four players will remain.
