3: Barrels from the World Poker Tour including a few big names winning side events at the WPT Gardens Poker Championships, a new app, and an appearance at the Palm Springs Film Festival for Walking to Vegas star Vince Van Patten.

It doesn’t matter how many ways I think about this one; I still end up with the same question – why did the World Poker Tour (WPT) schedule the WPT Gardens Poker Championship, now?

Today, I stood in the middle of the PokerStars Player’s No-Limit Hold’em Championship (PSPC) tournament area and felt the whip of the lash that hangs from the knuckles of a fantastic poker tournament.

I didn’t need to be here to feel the welt. PokerStars has worked on creating an event with the hook of all hooks for a year. We knew it was going to be the most significant event of 2019, outside of the World Series of Poker (WSOP).