LOS ANGELES, CA - As Reported by cardplayer.com: "The World Poker Tour begins its stay at another new home Jan. 4 on Fox Sports Net, when the poker show begins airing its seventh season of
26 episodes on Sunday, Jan. 4. Please check your local listings for times.
The WPT is also changing its format for the new season. All final tables of the tournaments featured in Season VII will be aired in two one-hour shows to give viewers a wider-range of hands and a better idea of how the final tables of these events played out.
FSN is the third home to the WPT. The seminal poker show spent its first five seasons on the Travel Channel, which dropped the show after deciding to move away from gambling-related programming in 2007. The WPT then moved to GSN for one season, before getting picked up by FSN for Season VII.
Season VII contained some significant milestones for the WPT. The 100th “WPT Poker-Made Millionaire” was made last year, and the $400 million mark for prize money was also broken. Mike Sexton and Vince Van Patten are back with a new hostess, Amanda Leatherman.
The episodes are sponsored by FullTiltPoker.net and Southwest Airlines, which is the official airline of the WPT. And while the show’s new home is FSN, old episodes are still being shown on GSN and the Travel Channel.
The list of final table participants of all the WPT events that were filmed last year for Season VII are as followed (players are listed in no particular order. Exact premiere dates of the episodes are unavailable, so please check your local listings)."
The World Poker Tour (WPT) can be seen in more than 116 countries and territories throughout the world. WPT consists of 17 high stakes poker tournaments filmed at glamorous locations throughout the world, including Bellagio in Las Vegas, Foxwoods Resort Casino in Mashantucket, CT, Aviation Club de France in Paris and the Borgata in Atlantic City. Each year the Tour culminates in the WPT World Championship in Las Vegas at Bellagio in April, drawing the leading pros and accomplished amateurs from around the world for an $8-12 million prize pool. |
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