World Poker Tour is another exciting tournament that poker players want to take part in. This Texas Hold’em tournament is a series of international tournaments. Almost all poker professional you know today plays or have played in the World Poker Tours (WPT).
The hype in poker tournaments coming from WSOP televised tournaments made an umbrella effect in the World Poker Tour. Additionally, because the host himself is a professional and champion poker player, his commentaries on the televised version lend credence to WPT.
World Series of Poker bracelet winner Mike Sexton and actor Vince Van Patten hosts World Poker Tours main event.
While the game in all of the international tournaments is Texas Hold’em, many players still love to take part in this tour.
This is because most professional players are experts in Texas Hold’em coming from their experiences in the World Series of Poker; they can easily join WPT events.
The Travel Channel, an American cable television was the first to televise a WPT Championship in April 2003. In 2004, the network debut of WPT is on NBC, it was entitled “Battle of Champions”. The Travel Channel continued to feature the main event of WPT from the first to the fifth season.
The sixth season was moved to GSN and for the seventh season, it was aired in Fox Sports Net.
For the final event, most of them are held in Las Vegas, Nevada. Even if the other games in the series happen internationally, there is concentration of games in US territories as well.
On the question of prizes awaiting winners, WPT likewise gives out gold bracelets to the final event players. Millions of dollars in cash prizes likewise awaits WPT champions.
If you have watch WPT main events on television, you surely wonder why hosts are allowed to make commentaries on the games as they are being played, please note that they are not. The truth is that the televised version of the WPT events are usually a combination of the taped actual game and the commentaries added to them after the games.
Hosts such as Sexton and Patten are not allowed to look at the hole cameras while the game is on. Thus, there is no problem with the commentaries being made. They happen after the games anyway. Privacy of players’ hole cards is still intact, so no worry. You can always play on the main table if you wish.
Because of the exciting games in the World Poker Tour games and to give women poker players a chance to shine, the WPT Ladies was inaugurated in January 2008. The final table will likewise be televised.
The prestige that World Poker Tour provides players did not stop at multimillion dollar prizes and gold bracelets; the World Poker Tour Walk of Fame is likewise designed to honor poker players that play the games in its highest level. This WPT Walk of Fame likewise honors people who promoted and spread the game through film, television and literature.
Playing in the World Poker Tour surely make a poker player known to the world.
On the question of entry to the tour, it may be worth noting that you can always pay for the buy-in, if you can afford but playing in satellite games in various online poker websites may allow you entry to the tour as well.
If you want to join the levels of WPT champions such as Alan Goering, Martin De Knijff, Tuan Le, Joe Bartholdi Jr., Carlos Mortensen, David Chiu and Yevgeniv Timoshenko, then might as well prepare for the buy-in or play online satellite tournaments to gain entry.
The eighth season may be your time to shine at WPT.
