World Poker Tour

The WPT, otherwise known as the World Poker Tour is a internationally re-known tour. The WPT is also one of the fastest growing sports tours around. Its growth is being fueled by the television coverage and online lifestyle associated with poker tournaments. Its big money too and has a number of million dollar tournaments in its circuit.

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The television coverage that the WPT has received has shown massive popularity since the keyhole camera that allows viewers to watch what the pros are playing with. This has given the television public new insight in to strategies and plays that the professionals make on the poker scene.

It’s not all easy though on the WPT with the competition tough and many experienced players out there to knock each other out. There are currently 13 main events on the WPT.

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WPT operates offline tours but there are a number of online tournaments that anyone can enter. The advantage to this being that you are not restricted by location as you find in many offline tours. The WPT does offer the advantage of being able to look into the players eyes and not just go on the logical assumptions found in so many of the online competitions. The classic Poker face is often lost by many of the online tournaments.

The WPT tour is a listed company on the NASDAQ stock exchange. It seems like WPT also want to get their own online gaming site WPTonline(Aff Link). The group has paired up with wageworkers and plan to only allow people from countries that allow online poker to participate in the gaming on their site.

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With possible changes to the way governments regulate online gaming in the future you may very well be able for people to play perfectly legally in the WPT online arena in your country.