April 25, 2005

Poker News: World Poker Tour - Championship - Final Report

Poker News: World Poker Tour - Championship - Final Report:


The future of televised poker is safe. After the insanity that I witnessed in San Jose, with Danny Nguyen hitting running sevens to rescue himself, and eventually win the tournament, I believe I wrote that the San Jose WPT episode will go down as the best ever. Move over San Jose, here comes the World Poker Tour Season Three Championship.

I'm going to tell you right now, the words I write will not do this program justice. If you are a fan of poker - you should have been here. If you could not be here, watch the episode when it airs. The beats, and the suckouts contained in this article are not fiction, but they should be. To lend a tiny bit of perspective, let me tell you the first fact you should know about the season three championship. The season two championship had virtually the same amount of chips in play, and was resolved in 78 total hands. Tonight's season three championship took 191 hands to decide. The average WPT taping takes 4 hours. This taping tonight was only 10 minutes under double that - 7 hours, 50 minutes.


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Posted by Jay Brewer at April 25, 2005 8:31 PM
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