Steven Lipscomb, the television producer, started the World Poker Tour in the United States of America. It is a series of international poker tournaments that feature many of the world’s renowned poker players.
In 2002, people saw the first series of the WPT on the television. It was aired in the spring of 2003 on the Travel Channel on American cable TV. The World Poker Tour series have led to a visible boom in the table game.
The most attractive part of the World Poker Tour is that anybody who can afford the “buy-in” or has been a winner of a “satellite” tournament” is eligible to compete against the professional poker players.
This has got to be the greatest tournament around, and one cannot underestimate its importance in spreading the word. Personally, now with the internet updates minute by minute and live broadcasts, I happen to log in to my laptop even when I’m away to keep up to date.
I definitely have to compete in one of the satellite-games next time.
So.. hopefully i’ll be the next Chris Moneymaker ^^