Poker Concorde

The 2009 World Poker Tour has seen the tail end of last season take place, with January 19th seeing a winner crowned for the Southern Poker Championship in Minnesota. Allen Carter took victory there, along with a cool $1,000,000 in prize money.

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February saw two events taking place, on February 26th Cornel Andrew Cimpan won the LA Poker Classic to pick up over $1.6 million. Then on February 28th the Celebrity WPT Invitational saw Freddy Deeb win the title and $100,000 prize money.

March and April finished the World Poker Tour season off, with the Bay 101 Shooting Star event being won by Steven Brecher. In April, Vadim Trincher won the Foxwoods Poker Classic, and at the end of April, the World Poker Tour, World Championship, was won by Yevgeniy Timoshenko who picked up over $2.1 million for his 1st place finish.

The WPT Venice event took place on May 10th and was won by Sven Ragnar Astrom, who took home 397,960 Euros in prize money. The Barcelona open was the most recent event to take place in this season, with Mark Randel Flowers taking the title, and 277,000 Euros for his win. Several more events are scheduled over the summer, with Las Vegas being the venue for many of the events. We may even see some players who arrived for the WSOP, stay a little longer to try their luck in the WPT too.