World Poker Tour (WPT)

Where the world’s best meet

The World Poker Tour (WPT) is a series of international poker tournaments featuring most of the world’s professional players.
It began in the United States by attorney/television producer Steven Lipscomb, who now serves as CEO of WPT Enterprises (WPTE), the firm that controls the World Poker Tour. In 2008, the WPT started offering bracelets to its event champions.
Players who won a title prior to the release of the bracelet, were given one retroactively.

The World Poker Tour is a collection of Texas hold ‘em poker tournaments mainly in the United States. The television show and the broadcasts of the World Series of Poker have led to a boom in the table game across American homes, in local casino poker rooms and online.

The key sponsors of the tour are casinos and online poker sites. The show, which is syndicated internationally, is co-hosted by World Series of Poker bracelet winner Mike Sexton, and actor Vince Van Patten. 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. WPT has announced that poker player and reporter Amanda Leatherman, who was hired in July 2008 to host “live updates” on the WPT website, will be the hostess for season seven.

Source: wikipedia.org