World Poker Tour

Whether a tournament report, or news about the goings on behind the scenes at the World Poker Tour, you will find all the WPT news you need here. All WPT business news stories, including news on WPT founders Steve Lipscomb, and Lyle Berman will be here also.

• WPTE Releases Fourth Quarter Report

  February 16, 2006,

  World Poker Tour Enterprises released their fourth quarter and end of year financial reports on February 13th. The overall look of the company at the end of 2005 is relatively good...

   

• World Poker Tour Launches 'Events' Division

  February 09, 2006,

  In a recent press release, WPTE introduced its new Events division and the hiring of two powerhouses in the event industry. The new Events division will offer corporations, meeting planners, charitable organizations and a host of other businesses, profess

   

• World Poker Tour Partners With Granada for Europe

  February 06, 2006,

  World Poker Tour is one of the most recognizable names in the poker world. They have possibly the most successful poker show on the planet and they are now set to begin merchandising throughout Europe.

   

• World Poker Tour Announces Season Five Schedule

  January 26, 2006,

  The World Poker Tour has some of the biggest players and payouts on the planet and nothing seems to be slowing this mighty juggernaut of a company as it begins to pick up speed...

   

• WPT adds Mandalay Bay, subtracts PartyPoker and UltimateBet

  January 25, 2006,

  The World Poker Tour (WPT) has announced the addition of Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino in Las Vegas as its newest 'member casino'.

   

• WPT CEO Steve Lipscomb Issues 'Open Letter'

  December 22, 2005,

  Today, World Poker Tour CEO Steve Lipscomb issued an 'open letter to the poker community', which we will reprint below in its entirety.

   

• WPT Messageboard Chip Leaders hire Cindy Margolis

  December 15, 2005,

  The World Poker Tour has finally called in the big guns, or should I say big talents. In conjunction with WPT's recent joint venture with ChipLeaders...

   

• World Poker Tour Teams up With Chipleaders

  November 30, 2005,

  In a match made in card player heaven, World Poker Tour has joined forces with Chipleaders, Inc., the leading online social network dedicated to poker.

   

• WPT Announces Third Quarter Results

  November 18, 2005,

  The World Poker Tour announced their third quarter financial results on November 8th for the three month period that ended on October 2nd, 2005....

   

• World Poker Tour Announces Seventeenth Tournament

  November 06, 2005,

  Responding to the constantly changing face of the poker world, the World Poker Tour has added another event to the 2005-2006 schedule. As the Tour has continued to see the phenomenal growth of poker...

   

• World Poker Tour Invades British Television

  November 04, 2005,

  With licensing arrangements for broadcast in over 120 countries, the World Poker Tour has taken the thrills of poker all over the world. While most would be happy with that achievement...

   

• Season Three World Poker Tour DVD Out

  November 01, 2005,

  Hard to believe, but Christmas is only about six weeks away. With that in mind, and with Season Four going on as we speak, the fine people at the World Poker Tour...

   

• PPT Second Season Changed to 2006

  October 20, 2005,

  The continued saga of the Professional Poker Tour continues to unfold moment by moment, but the second season of the all-star poker event will kick back into action in May of 2006.

   

• WPT And Travel Channel Locked In Dispute over PPT

  September 24, 2005,

  Things have been relatively peaceful in the world between the World Poker Tour and the Travel Channel. Between them, they have brought a new prominence to the sport of poker...

   

• World Poker Tour Going Global

  September 13, 2005,

  The World Poker Tour has been at the forefront of bringing televised tournament poker to America since its creation in 2002. Since its inception, the prize pools (as well as the player fields) have dramatically increased...

   

• Budweiser Is the Toast of the World Poker Tour

  September 10, 2005,

  The 'King of Beers' has once again been chosen by the World Poker Tour (WPT) as the primary sponsor for its new fourth season, re-signing the company for the third straight year.

   

• World Poker Tour - Legends of Poker - Final Report

  September 01, 2005,

  A record setting 839 players put up $5,000 each to try to become the next Legend of Poker at the Bicycle Casino in Los Angeles, easily eclipsing last year's number of 667.

   

• World Poker Tour to Allow Logos

  August 24, 2005,

  As reported here last week, the World Poker Tour has been in talks with its broadcast outlet - Travel Channel - to allow poker players to wear sponsor logos during the taping of WPT telecasts. These talks came to an end last night...

   

• Ladies And "Young Guns" On Center Stage With WPT

  August 14, 2005,

  In the next few weeks, the World Poker Tour will be featuring two tournaments that show the best the poker world has to offer from the under 30 set as well as the female side of the game

   

• The World Poker Tour Bites Back

  July 28, 2005,

  When you're at the top of the game, everyone wants to be like you. The same holds true with the poker industry. WPT Enterprises, Inc. (WPTE) has led the charge in the recent poker explosion...

   

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