The World Poker Tour recently announced that its seasons switched to coincide with the calendar years. That means its next season – a milestone of its 20 th anniversary – will run from January through December 2022. Thus far, though, WPTDeepStacks appears to be sticking to its regular schedule. That means that Season VII of WPTDS that started in May 2021 in Australia will continue into 2022.
Season VII started at the Star Gold Coast in Australia and then made it back to the US for a stop at the Venetian in Las Vegas. They then took the action to Sochi, Russia, online for players in India via Adda52, and online at partypoker for players in many other parts of the world.
Let’s take a look at the three most recent tournaments that finished in the last few months and how things stand as the holidays provide a break for everyone. WPTDS Choctaw
Choctaw Casino is in Durant, Oklahoma, and it is no stranger to the World Poker Tour. It did, however, welcome WPTDeepStacks to its property for the very first time in November. There was an entire festival that started on October 27, but the Main Event ran November 5-8 to close things out.
The $1,100 buy-in Main Event offered two starting flights. That brought in 545 entries and a prize pool of $528,650. It was enough to pay the top 69 finishers at least $1,750.
Day 2 brought 104 players back and quickly moved them toward the money. Sam Brown ended up as the bubble player with his 70 th -place exit. Players like Karen Norman (57 th place) and Mark Toulouse (45 th place) exited as play continued. The eventual exit of Thomas Santin in ninth place stopped the action for the night.
Only eight players returned on Day 3 with Marc Maxey holding a strong lead and Nick Pupillo in second and Mo Khan in a close third on the leaderboard. Andrease Halikias and Tony Nguyen each had 1M chips or more, but Jared Ward and Patrick Lenihan were below average. Shawn Ramsey was on the shortest stack of […]
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