World Poker Tour
Current season, competition or edition: World Poker Tour season 15 results
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| Sport | Texas hold'em |
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| Founded | May 27, 2002 |
| CEO | Adam Pliska |
| Country |
 United States (Founded) |
| Most titles | Darren Elias, Gus Hansen, Carlos Mortensen, David Rheem, Anthony Zinno (3) |
| TV partner(s) | Fox Sports Net |
| Official website | www.worldpokertour.com |
The World Poker Tour (WPT) is a series of international poker tournaments and associated television series broadcasting the final table of each tournament. It was started in 2002 in the United States by attorney/television producer Steven Lipscomb, who served as CEO of WPT Enterprises (WPTE), the firm that controlled the World Poker Tour up to November 2009. In 2008, the WPT started offering bracelets to its event champions. Players who won a title prior to the release of the WPT Bracelet were given one retroactively.
In November 2009, PartyGaming announced its acquisition of the World Poker Tour from WPTE for $12.3 million.
In December 2014, World Poker Tour announced an alliance with Ourgame, agreeing to license products and services on an exclusive basis in more than a dozen countries across Asia. In addition, Ourgame received the rights to use the WPT logo and trademark exclusively in Butan, Cambodia, China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Laos, Korea, Nepal, Macau, Malaysia, Taiwan, Thailand, Philippines, and Vietnam and operate on pokermonster.com.
In June 2015, The World Poker Tour (WPT) announced that it was acquired by Ourgame International Holdings Ltd. for a price of $35 million in cash.
The year-round WPT television show, building on the annual broadcast of the World Series of Poker, has contributed to the Poker boom in American homes, in local casino poker rooms and online. The key sponsors of the WPT are casinos and online poker sites.
The WPT television show, which is syndicated internationally, features commentary and analysis by World Series of Poker bracelet winner Mike Sexton and actor Vince Van Patten. Interviews and sideline reporting are provided by a female host. Shana Hiatt served as the show host and sideline reporter in its first three seasons. Courtney Friel took over the host role for the fourth season, and Sabina Gadecki for the fifth. Layla Kayleigh and Kimberly Lansing began serving as hostesses in season six. Poker player and reporter Amanda Leatherman was the host for season seven. Kimberly Lansing returned as anchor for seasons nine through eleven. Lynn Gilmartin assumed the anchor role for season twelve and remains the current anchor for season thirteen, airing on Fox Sports Networks.
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