Tonight’s WPT episode will air the final six ladies of the WPT Ladies Championship on GSN. This event caused a stir when a few players were upset they learned a portion of the buy-in would be donated to the Susan G. Komen Foundation after they bought in to the tournament (I think they bought in rather early). I guess those ladies wouldn’t have played the event at all had they known the WPT would be reaching out to help the sick. Tsk Tsk.
Donna Varlotto, A.K.A. Steve Wong’s fiance who didn’t learn poker from Steve Wong, will be on briefly and don’t forget Vanessa Selbst, the chick WCP thinks has a hot girlfriend, will be on the show as well. Selbst is also known as that chick who has made several WSOP final tables, won a 2008 WSOP bracelet and is a Yale graduate.
Don’t forget the World Poker Tour will be moving over to FSN soon.
Are you serious?
The World Poker Tour took 15% out of the prize pool which is generated by player buy-ins and includes no additional money from WPT. So it’s not that the “WPT would be reaching out to help the sick”, but rather that WPT was taking money out of the players pockets to make it look like they, and not the players, “would be reaching out to help the sick”. The WPT had no intentions of matching the donation, and when combined with the rake, the $25,000 withheld for the WPT Championship seat, and the 3% withheld for the tournament staff it made the tournament economically unplayable.
Second place money: $40,815
Money missing from the prize pool: $39,490
The decision was such an obvious mistake that Lyle Berman promised it would never happen again.
Tsk Tsk on fact-checking.