You read it here second … as semi-suspected, the WPT is going to Fox Sports, following what appears to be the Full Tilt Infomercial/time-buy method … though that\’s not made clear from the press release that PokerNews rewrote shortly before […]
As Dan mentioned in his Steve Lipscomb interview post, there were some layoffs at WPT Enterprises last week. My sources tell me that there were approximately 10 people let go, primarily from the online and interactive departments that handle the
WSOP Commissioner Jeffrey Pollack and WPT CEO Steve Lipscomb taking in the spectacle of the main event and whatever it may suggest about what\’s ahead on the poker horizon. All WSOP-long I\’ve been seeing Lyle Berman and feeling torn between
Argh, it\’s getting frustrating … so much stuff going on that it\’s hard to keep up, let alone post about it. So here\’s a bit of everything: 6,844 entrants in the 2008 WSOP main event. I jut had a wonderful
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GSN let the renewal option for the World Poker Tour\’s 7th season lapse on June 7th. There is currently no deal in place, though GSN said it\’s still open for discussion, for shows that are scheduled to begin taping with
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So the days keep ticking by — May 24, June 1, June 7 … and still no word on the future of the World Poker Tour. The best guess is that the WPT is still trying to renegotiate something with
Will the WPT Still Exist in 2009? Maybe not, according Steve Lipscomb, pizza friends
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Danielle in New York writes in with a little more info about the film project they\’ve got working: Another thing you can add if people are being hesitant to being interviewed or showing us their room, we have filmed in
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The World Poker Tour has announced that a ceremony will be held on April 21, during the WPT World Championship at the Five Diamond World Poker Classic, to award bracelets to each of the 96 past WPT champions. What a
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Has a familiar ring to it, eh? It seems that the World Poker Tour is in the process of creating some type of WPT Europe, in addition to the WPT schedule that pretty much stays within the U.S. border with
Antonio at the WPT press conference A few impressions from the press conference with Antonio Esfandiari and Steve Lipscomb: ~Antonio is immensely happy about this deal. He has a deep respect and fondness for the WPT. Though he was being
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