The World Poker Tour

The World Poker Tour (WPT) has increased the popularity of Texas Hold’em across America, it has also has increased international awareness not only of poker in general but also of the world class poker players that have now become household names across the globe. The likes of Daniel Negreanu are now so well know for participating and winning $5,527,510 in prize money from tournaments in the WPT, helped not only be the online presence of the World Poker Tour but also by the television exposure that these exciting events bring each year.

The World Poker Tour has been running since 2002 and is sponsored by both online poker sites and brick and mortar casinos. The world famous tournament attracts a broad spectrum of players from the top online and/or casino poker players to those that have managed to buy-in at prices starting from $2,500 and rising to $25,000 or win a satellite poker tournament for their seat. Many of the big online poker sites offer satellite poker tournaments that will allow a poker player to progress up the leaderboard to ultimately take a place in the World Poker Tour.

The televised tournament season is one of the most popular programmes on cable television in America, and has been so successful as an event that a WPT Ladies tournament has been launched to ensure that every poker player is catered for. There is even a WPT Boot Camp to train would be poker professionals all the techniques for a successful poker career, allowing them to hopefully walk in the footsteps of some of the poker greats. The WPT has even introduced a Walk of Fame that sees some very important poker legends featured such as Gus Hansen and Doyle Brunson in recognition of his 50 year career, which is indeed praise from a poker industry giant such as the World Poker Tour.