World Poker Tour Winner 2016
German poker pro Dietrich Fast has won the 2016 World Poker Tour L.A. Poker Classic $10,000 buy-in no-limit hold’em main event, defeating a field of 515 players en route to his first WPT title and the first-place prize of $1,000,800.
Fast also scored 2,100 Card Player Player of the Year points for the win. This was his second final table of 2016 and a large enough score to catapult him into third place in the overall POY standings.
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Fast entered the six-handed final table in fifth chip position, but was able to outlast the likes of Anthony Spinella (6th – $191,250), Farid jattin (5th – $238,070), Sam Soverel (4th – $316,440) and Alex Keating (3rd – $423,890) in order to set up a final showdown with Mike Shariati.
Fast began with more than a 3-to-1 chip advantage over Shariati, who was looking for his second WPT title of the season after having won the WPT Legends of Poker main event at The Bicycle Casino last fall. The two players battled it out for 55 hands, but in the end Shariati just could not overcame Fast’s lead.
The final hand saw Fast raise to 450,000 from the button with blinds of 100,000 – 200,000 with an ante of 25,000. Shariati moved all in for 4,850,000 total and Fast made the call with the A9, which was dominating Shariati’s A8.
World Poker Tour Winner 2016
The flop brought the AJ4 to keep Fast in the lead, but the 8 gave Shariati two pair and the lead. The J on the river counterfeited Shariati’s two pair, securing the pot and the title for Fast and sending Shariati to the rail in second place with $656,540 and 1,750 POY points. He moved inside the top ten in the Player of the Year rankings as a result.
Here is a look at the payouts and POY points awarded at the final table:
| Place | Player | Earnings (USD) | POY Points |
| 1 | Dietrich Fast | $1,000,800 | 2100 |
| 2 | Mike Shariati | $656,540 | 1750 |
| 3 | Alex Keating | $423,890 | 1400 |
| 4 | Sam Soverel | $316,440 | 1050 |
| 5 | Farid Jattin | $238,070 | 875 |
| 6 | Anthony Spinella | $191,250 | 700 |
| 7 | John Hennigan | $160,190 | 525 |
| 8 | Binh Nguyen | $127,660 | 350 |
| 9 | Tyler Reiman | $96,120 | 175 |
Winner photo courtesy of World Poker Tour / Joe Giron.
| WSOP Titles | WPT Titles | EPT Titles | Poker Earnings | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gus Hansen | 1 | 4 | 0 | $11,240,678 |
| 2 | Carlos Mortensen | 2 | 3 | 0 | $11,598,083 |
| 3 | Erick Lindgren | 2 | 2 | 0 | $9,881,849 |
| 4 | Howard Lederer | 2 | 2 | 0 | $6,571,538 |
| 5 | Clonie Gowen | 0 | 1 | 0 | $1,639,064 |
| 6 | David Benyamine | 1 | 1 | 0 | $7,047,146 |
| 7 | Erik Seidel | 8 | 1 | 0 | $21,499,344 |
| 8 | Gavin Smith | 1 | 1 | 0 | $5,959,186 |
| 9 | Phil Gordon | 0 | 1 | 0 | $2,786,896 |
| 10 | Phil Ivey | 9 | 1 | 0 | $17,649,220 |
| 11 | Roland de Wolfe | 1 | 1 | 1 | $5,330,556 |
| 12 | JC Tran | 2 | 1 | 0 | $10,416,658 |
What is the World Poker Tour
The World Poker Tour is a series of world class poker tournaments that have been running since 2002. It’s popularity contributed massively to the poker boom which introduced millions of players into the sport of poker.
The tour was created by Steven Lipscomb who is a Television producer. Steven grew the tour into one of the most prestigious and most watched poker events on television, with large fields, large prizes and all the top players helping to propel the WPT to the top of the TV ratings.
Revolutionising Poker on TV
For the first five seasons of the tour the Travel Channel bought the rights and broadcast the TV shows. Later on this switched to GSN in the USA whilst other channels all over the World also broadcast the glitz and bright lights of the WPT final tables.
The TV shows are hosted by poker legend Mike Sexton and his co-host Vince Van Patten. Some of the most famous moments in poker have happened at WPT final tables with the camera’s watching.
Not Just for Men
Although many Female Poker Players take part in the World Poker Tour events, the tour has always ran a specialised event available only for women entrants. In 2008 they expanded this by creating a series of tournament for women called WPT Ladies with buys in ranging from $300 to $1,500. This didn’t really catch on and there are no ladies only events included in the current season schedule, although there continues to be a strong female contingent in the entrants to WPT events.
The Future of the WPT
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Lipscomb remained as CEO up until November 2009 when PartyGaming (the company behind Party Poker) purchased the WPT for a fee of $12.3million.
It was also in 2009 that the WPT started to award winners of its tournaments with bracelets, very similar to the World Series of Poker which has always awarded a valuable bracelet as a trophy to each winner. This has always been popular amongst poker players with the phrase “how many bracelets has he/she won” well understood as how many WSOP events have they won. Previous winners of WPT events were also given a bracelet retroactively in order to keep it consistent and try to bring the WPT into the poker craze of counting bracelets.
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PartyGaming have also introduced a second series of the tour under their PartyPoker brand name, focusing mainly on European Stops in an attempt to compete with the hugely popular European Poker Tour, which is part owned by their rival Pokerstars.