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What Is The World Poker Tour?

The WPT (World Poker Tour) is a sequence of worldwide poker tournaments. The tournaments play host to a number of the world’s best poker players. The World Poker Tour first came to fame in the USA, when a man named Steven Lipscomb came up with the idea and got it off the ground. Steven Lipscomb is now the CEO of WPT Enterprises which is a company that oversees the World Poker Tour.

The WPT is a Texas Hold ‘em poker tournament. The tour is held all over the world but the majority of the tournaments are held in the country that started the tour, the USA. Since the Tour became televised the game of poker has became a widely popular game, with poker players joining games online in poker rooms. The World Poker Tour has a number of sponsors, mainly sponsors in the Casino and Poker niche.

Background of the World Poker Tour

In 2002 and the beginning of 2003, the World Poker Tour really took off. It was handed its debut towards the end of 2002 and the first final of the tour was held in April of 2003 in Las Vegas. The first ever series of the Poker World Tour was televised on the Travel Channel for American cable viewers to watch. The sixth series of the tour was televised on GSN and would take place in the spring of 2008.

GSN showed the sixth series, known as the Mirage Poker Showdown, and World Poker Tour Enterprises made a shock announcement that the seventh series would be live and exclusive on Fox Sports Net.

World Poker Tour Commentary

The WPT show is hosted and commentated on by Mike Sexton and Vince Van Patten. These two commentators give viewers the feeling that they do live recorded commentary and that they interact with the players on certain occasions.

They record comments about ‘Hole Cards’ after the tournament has taken place as gaming rules stop them from doing so. This means that the commentary many viewers see is not live, but a mixture of live feeds and post-recorded commentary.

Who Can Play WPT?

Almost anyone with money to burn and knowledge of poker can play on the WPT. The ‘buy in’ amount to play is anywhere from $2,500 to $25,000.

Viewers at home watching can see the cards that players have got, all thanks to a small camera underneath the poker table.

World Poker Tour for Ladies

WPT stated in January 2008 that there would be a similar tournament set up so that women could play, this would be called WPT Ladies. The tour will have five events, and a buy in of $300 to $1,500. The final tournament is set to be shown live on television.