Posts Tagged ‘World Poker Tour’
Posted by Nicolae on July 7th, 2008 under Poker, Poker tournaments Guide, Tournaments
Tags: 2008 WPT Championship, David Chiu, deal, GSN, links, Motto, NBC, Player of the Year, poker tournaments, Record winnings, Settlement, Sherman Act lawsuit, Steven Lipscomb, texas hold 'em, Travel Channel, World Poker Tour, WPT Championships, WPT Enterprises, WPT Ladies, WPTE •
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World Poker Tour
Sport
Texas Hold ‘em
Founded
2002
Commissioner
Steven Lipscomb
Motto
“May all your cards be live, and your pots be monsters” (Unofficial)
No. of teams
No officially recognized teams
Country(ies)
United States (Founded)
Most recent
champion(s)
David Chiu, 2008 WPT Championship
TV partner(s)
Travel Channel, NBC, GSN
Official website
www.WorldPokerTour.com
The World Poker Tour (WPT) is a series of poker tournaments featuring most of the world’s professional players. It was [...]
Posted by Nicolae on July 3rd, 2008 under Poker, Texas hold 'em, games
Tags: Casinos, Celebrity Poker Showdown, community card poker games, hold'em, no-limit betting, omaha hold 'em, origins, poker variants, popular culture, spectator sport, texas hold 'em, World Poker Tour, World Series of Poker, WSOP •
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Texas hold ‘em (also hold’em, holdem) is the most popular of the community card poker games. It is also the most popular poker variant played in most casinos in the United States. Its no-limit betting form is used in the main event of the World Series of Poker (WSOP), as seen on [...]
Posted by Nicolae on June 30th, 2008 under Las Vegas, Las Vegas Nevada Guide
Tags: American Casino, Blansky's Beauties, Brent Webb's Magic at The Desert Inn, Caesar's Challenge, Celebrity Poker Showdown, Cops, Crime Story, Criss Angel Mindfreak, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, dr. vegas, Fear Factor, Hearts are Wild, Heroes, King of Cars, King of Vegas, Las Vegas, Las Vegas Law, Poker After Dark, shows, Teenbeat Club, television, The Casino, The Ed Bernstein Show, The Real World: Las Vegas, The Surreal Life: Fame Games, Vega$, Vegas Showgirls: Nearly Famous, What Makes it Tick, World Poker Tour •
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First Run Start
First Run End
Title
Network
Notes
2004
American Casino
Discovery Channel
The Travel Channel
reality television program switched to TTC in June 2005
1977
1977
Blansky’s Beauties
ABC
Cancelled after only 13 episodes
Brent Webb’s Magic at The Desert Inn
2004
2006
Celebrity Poker Showdown
Bravo
Texas hold ‘em tournament
2005
Caesars 24/7
A&E
reality television program 3 shows
2001
Criss Angel Mindfreak
A&E
1993
1994
Caesar’s Challenge
NBC
The Casino
2004
The Casino
Fox network
reality television program
Clive James Live in Las Vegas, Nevada
Clive James
Cops
FOX Network
several episodes
1986
1988
Crime [...]
Posted by Nicolae on June 25th, 2008 under Poker, Poker tournaments Guide
Tags: betting format, championship, entry fees, event, Las Vegas, major tournaments, multi-table tournaments, Poker, poker tournaments, prizes, types, venues, winners, World Poker Tour, World Series of Poker •
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A poker tournament is a tournament at which the winners are decided by playing poker, usually a particular style of poker.
Contrast this to a ring game, where the game is ongoing with no formal structure to determine a single winner in a certain length of time.
Entry fees and prizes
In a typical tournament, [...]
Posted by Nicolae on June 24th, 2008 under Gambling Media, Poker, Poker Guide
Tags: British Poker Open, Celebrity Poker Club, Celebrity Poker Showdown, Europe, European Poker Tour, High Stakes Poker, History, Late Night Poker, Late Night Poker Ace, National Heads-Up Poker, North America, PartyPoker Poker Den, PartyPoker.com Football & Poker Legends Cup, Poker, Poker After Dark, Poker Dome Challenge, Poker Million, Poker Nations Cup, Poker Royale, Poker Superstars Invitational Tournament, Pokerheaven.com Online Series of Poker, Pokermania, Pro-Am Poker Equalizer, Professional Poker Tour, programs, television, The Gaming Club World Poker Championship, Ultimate Poker Challenge, United States Poker Championship, Victor Chandler Poker Cup, William Hill Poker Grand Prix, World Heads-Up Poker Championship, World Poker Tour, World Series of Poker, World Speed Poker Open •
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Poker television programs have been extremely popular in the last several years, especially in North America and Europe. This has especially become the case since the invention of the “pocket cam” in 1997 (and its first use in the United States in 2002), wherein viewers at home can see what each player [...]
Posted by Nicolae on June 15th, 2008 under Poker, Tournaments
Tags: bracelets, Card Player Magazin, championship, Daniel Negreanu, Favorite Poker Player, hints, how to play, Kid Poker, Limit Hold'em, Player of the Year, poker video game, Stacked with Daniel Negreanu, tips, titles, Tournaments, winners, winnings, World Poker Tour, World Series of Poker, WSOP •
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Now 4 years ago designed the Player of the Year, Daniel Negreanu win the first place in the $2,000 Limit Hold’em game, $204,874.
Daniel Negreanu (’Kid Poker’) (born July 26, 1974 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada) is a Canadian professional poker player with four World Series of Poker bracelets and two World Poker Tour [...]
Posted by Nicolae on June 12th, 2008 under Poker, Poker Guide
Tags: Amarillo Slim, American Civil War, books, Casinos, Chris Moneymaker, community card poker, David Sklansky, Doyle Brunson, draw poker, five-card, games, Greg Raymer, History, Johnny Moss, Jonathan H. Green, lowball, Mike Caro, Mississippi, New Orleans, pochen, Poker, poque, split-pot poker, straight, strategy, stud poker, The Theory of Poker, tournament, variant, wild card, World Poker Tour, World Series of Poker, WSOP •
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The history of poker is a matter of some debate. The name of the game likely descended from the French poque, which descended from the German pochen (’to knock’), but it is not clear whether the origins of poker itself lie with the games bearing those names. It closely resembles the Persian [...]
