World Poker Tour

World Poker Tour Information

The World Poker Tour is putting tournament poker in the spotlight.  The World Poker Tour has boosted the popularity of poker around the world through its poker tournaments and the WPT television shows seen on the Travel Channel. 

This is the place for World Poker Tour information.  You can see the complete WPT tournament schedule, find out how to play in a World Poker Tour tournament, get information about the World Poker Tour Championship and WPT satellite tournaments, check the World Poker Tour television schedule, and more.   

The World Poker Tour tournament season begins in May and ends with the World Poker Tour Championship in April at the Bellagio in Las Vegas, Nevada.  There are sixteen poker tournaments on the Tour at various locations ranging from Paris, France, to the mainland USA, to a luxury ocean cruise.  The only qualification for entering any of these poker tournaments is showing up with the buy-in which is usually $10,000.

Make it to the final table of one of these poker tournaments and you get a share of the tournament prize money while your friends get to watch you on television.  Win the tournament and you also get your entry fee paid ($25,000) to the World Poker Tour Championship at Bellagio.  Go to World Poker Tour Schedule to see the complete schedule of poker tournaments.  Also, keep an eye on the Poker Blog for the latest tournament news.

The final table at each World Poker Tour tournament is filmed in front of a live audience and televised on the Travel Channel.  For a television schedule, go to World Poker Tour Television.  You can also be a part of the audience at the Travel Channel's filming of the final table of WPT tournaments.  Many of the host casinos provide free audience seating.  Check with the casino ahead of time to see what they have planned.  Typically the casino will hand out numbered audience tickets for the poker tournament on a first come first served basis at the casino on the day of the final table.

You can always buy directly into the World Poker Tour Championship which is held in April as part of Bellagio Casino's World Poker Classic.  The game is No Limit Texas Hold'em.  The winner of the 2004 World Poker Tour Championship was Martin Deknijff.  The 2004 first place prize was $2,728,356, at the time the largest first prize ever paid in tournament poker. 

The 2006 World Poker Tour Championship is expected to have a prize pool of over $12 Million.  The top 50 players will share in the prize money with first place expected to be over $4 Million. 

Players can also get into the World Poker Tour tournaments through satellite poker tournaments.  The host casino for each WPT tournament will typically hold satellite poker tournaments.  These satellite tournaments have a smaller buy-in and the winners of the satellite tournaments get their buy-in paid to the World Poker Tour tournament.  Bellagio Casino even holds satellite tournaments for the WPT Championship in the weeks preceding the Championship.  Go to World Poker Tour Satellite for more information on WPT satellite tournaments.

Don't miss your chance to play in the World Poker Tour!

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