Look Back at The Champions of WPT Montreal! (2023)

World Poker Tour will once again be flying into Canada for a festival of poker offering up over CAD$5m in guarantees when WPT Montreal kicks off next week.

In partnership with partypoker LIVE, Montreal’s very own Playground Poker Club will enable players to take part in the WPT experience in one of the world’s best poker rooms across October 20-November 3 2019.

Chance your hand on the WPT Main Tour in a bid to join the prestigious WPT Champions Club, and also take part in the popular WPT500 and WPTDeepStacks, as well as a full festival of events.

Ahead of the excitement, relive the past WPT Montreal festivals that have featured success for future stars and poker legends!

Season XI– Roy Reigns Victorious

Rewind a few years, and the 2012 WPT Montreal saw Jonathan Roy come through a 1,173 player-field to win the $3,300 Main Event for $779,210. The result for Roy was only his seventh recorded live cash at the time, and the Canadian’s victory came just two months after a ninth-place finish at WPT Malta.

Roy was among good company with just three players remaining and found a way to defeat both Jeff Gross and Pascal Lefrancois. Gross, of course, is currently part of partypoker Team Pro, with Lefrancois going on to win the partypoker MILLIONS Grand Final Barcelona Main Event for €1,700,000 in April 2018.

Season XII– Rosenbarger Bags the Title

The televised final table saw Derrick Rosenbarger from Clovis, New Mexico take the $500,824 first-place prize as well the championship belt. The Air Force jet pilot navigated his way through 862 players, despite starting the final day with the second-lowest stack with 33 big blinds, compared to three players who began with over 100. Rosenbarger bested eventual Season XII WPT Player of the YearMukul Pahuja heads-up to win after holding with pocket queens against ace-four of diamonds.

Season XIII – Jubilation For Jaffe

The WPT returned to the Playground Poker Club in November 2014 and saw American Jonathan Jaffe defeat Ratharam Sivagnanam heads-up to win the Main Event for $409,657.Season XII runner-up Mukul Pahuja, who has over $5.2m in recorded live earnings, took the bronze medal, as Kevin MacPhee banked $131,777 in fourth place.

Season XIV– Mahoney Makes It

A year later, WPT and partypoker joined forces, and the Main Event saw Jared Mahoney top a 697 player-field to seal the title alongside $341,332. That year it was Darryll Fish who was the unlucky player to depart during heads-up but received a $229,258 consolation prize for his efforts. In third place was one of the few European players who made the money-places, with the in-form German Rainer Kempe awarded $147,599.

Fish recently made up for his defeat by taking down theSeason XVIWPT Lucky Hearts Poker Open and finally become part of the WPT Champions Club, while also taking second place in 2018 partypoker MILLIONS North America Main Event for $937,221.

Season XV – Glory For Poker Legend Sexton

2016 was the year for a man that needs no introduction in the world of poker – Mike Sexton.

The current partypoker chairman has over $6.6m in live earnings and entered the WPT Champions Club, having appeared at several WPT Main Tour final tables. Poker Hall of Famer Sexton banked $317,817 for his heads-up victory over Benny Chen, and once again wrote his name into the poker history books.

Season XVI – Heroic Heroux

The Season XVI Main Event final table saw two-time WPT Champions Club member Eric Afriat reach his sixth Main Tour final table, ultimately taking fifth place after David Peters had exited in sixth. Maxime Heroux was the hero after he topped the 606 entrants and collected the $317,554 first-place prize.

Season XVII– Serda Shines Through

On a final table that featured the likes of Sorel Mizzi, WPTDeepStacks winner Upeshka De Silva, and two-time WPT Champions Club member Jonathan Little, Patrick Serda surged to Main Event victory, watched on by hisfiance Lisaand newborn son, Henrik, and picked up the $652,801 first-place prize.

Ema Zajmovic was looking to secure her second WPT title on her fourth final table appearance but fell at the last thanks to a battling display from the new father, Serda.

Could you become theSeason XVIII champion? Find out all the WPT Montreal information below:

Make the Money Online

Play your way into the WPT Montreal Main Event money places online at partypoker.com with the brand new Day 1+2 flight.

At 16:00 (Montreal Local Time) on Sunday, October 20 the online CAD 3,300 Day 1+2 online flight will begin, with 19 levels each 24 minutes in length, giving players to chance to qualify for the live Day 3 at Playground Poker Club and a guaranteed spot in the money places.

This unique way to combine online and live poker gives players more flexibility over their travel and expenditure and was recently featured during the WPT UK event at Dusk Till Dawn.

WPT500 will also feature five online flights across October 20-24, with all players making the live Day 2 guaranteed a place in the money.

Stay tuned for more information about what will be on offer in Montreal this Autumn right here at WPT.com.

WPT Montreal Festival by partypoker LIVE
October 20- November 4, 2019
Play online on partypoker: October 20-21-22 & 27, 2019

Structures provided by partypoker LIVE

WPT500 MontrealCAD $1,000,000 Guaranteed
Dates: October 25-29, 2019
Play online Day 1s on partypoker: October 20-24, 2019
Buy-in: CAD $500 + CAD $50 = CAD $550

WPT Montreal Main EventCAD $3,000,000 Guaranteed
Dates: October 29 -November 3, 2019
Play online Day 1+2 on partypoker: October 20, 2019
Buy-in: CAD $3,000 + CAD $300 = CAD $3,300

WPTDeepStacks MontrealCAD $1,000,000 Guaranteed
Dates: October 31- November 4, 2019
Buy-in: CAD $1,500 + CAD $150 = CAD $1,650

WPT High RollerCAD $1,000,000 Guaranteed
Dates: October 28-30, 2019
Buy-in: CAD $5,000 + CAD $300 = CAD $10,300

WPT Ladies EventCAD 15,000 Guaranteed
Date: October 26, 2019
Buy-in: CAD $200 + CAD $20 = CAD $220

You canqualify online on partypoker& use your partypoker LIVE Dollars.
The first 100 to buy-in to the Main Event get CAD 300 on their partypoker account.
Visitpartypoker LIVE web sitefor more info.

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