Patrick Tardif: From Watching the WPT on Television to Representing WPT Global

At any time when a poker participant places pen to paper on an ambassadorial contract, the accompanying press launch typically quotes them as saying representing the model is a dream come true. For Patrick “Egption” Tardif, turning into a WPT World ambassador was actually a dream come true, finishing a full-circle story that started a number of years earlier.

After graduating from the College of Western Ontario, Tardif relocated to South Korea, the place he taught English as a international language. Nevertheless, Tardif has a severe aggressive streak operating via him, and it created an itch that wanted scratching.

Tardif, like another high-profile poker gamers, comes from a gaming background; he was as soon as an expert H.A.L.O. participant. Just like the profession paths of Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier and Griffin Benger, Tardif efficiently switched from video video games to poker and has by no means regarded again.

Though Tardif had a dwell match rating in Might 2014, he did not resolve to turn into a full-time Twitch poker streamer till 2017. Since then, Tardif has amassed a military of 55,500 loyal followers, who tune in to his thrice-weekly streams, the place the Canadian offers baggage of leisure whereas showcasing his talent within the high-stakes MTT world.

By 2024, Tardif had amassed greater than $11 million in on-line cashes and one other $500,000 from the dwell enviornment. The Canadian had already represented PartyPoker and GGPoker, however then WPT World got here knocking, and Tardif discovered it unimaginable to show them down.

WPT World and Tardif joined forces in Might 2024. Throughout his interview with the WPT World Weblog, Tardif revealed that he used to observe World Poker Tour (WPT) tv broadcasts when he was first chopping his tooth within the poker world, so the chance to sport a WPT patch was one thing he was born to do.

“Ever since I first received into poker, I would been watching WPT on TV. With the ability to be an envoy for such a storied and prestigious model was a possibility I could not move up on.”

Tardif and WPT World look like a partnership made in heaven. The Canadian is a longtime on-line professional; he mixes it up in player-facing dwell occasions, and maybe most significantly, Tardif is a WPT fan at coronary heart. It is a trifecta that ought to see Tardif fly the WPT World flag for a while.

Matthew Pitt hails from Leeds, West Yorkshire, in the UK, and has labored within the poker business since 2008, and labored for PokerNews since 2010. In September 2010, he turned the editor of PokerNews. Matthew stepped away from dwell reporting duties in 2015, and now concentrates on his function of Senior Editor for the PokerNews.