All You Need To Know About The World Poker Tour
The World Poker Tour catapulted the game into greater heights. The live airing of the Final Table by Travel Channel aroused the interest of even the people who are ignorant of poker. This world championship poker event has produced a lot of "rags to riches" stories.
The World Poker Tour season commences in May and culminates with the Championship round in April of the succeeding year at the Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada. A total of sixteen elimination tournaments are held from various parts of the world such as France and even in an ocean cruise. If you can pay the buy-in amount of $10,000, your chances of winning the gold bracelet for being a WPT champion may be just a few rounds away.
The prize at stake for winning these tournaments abroad as well as in the United States gives you a chance of competing with the world's best in the Main Event. The winner of each tournament will have their $25,000 entrance fee prepaid.
The championship round of each WPT tournaments is telecast live and aired on Travel Channel. You can take part as an audience during the taping of the Finals Table. Many of the sponsoring casinos provide free seats for the audience. You can find out what the casino plans. Usually, the casino distributes a certain number of tickets on a "first come first serve" basis.
There is likewise the option to make an outright purchase into the WPT Championship which is conducted in April in connection with Bellagio Casino's World Poker Classic. The game involved in this world championship poker event is No Limit Texas Hold'em. The grand prize of $2,728,356 awarded in 2004 was the highest prize money awarded in poker tournaments at that time.
In 2006, the total purse of the WPT Championship is likely to reach more than $12 million. The purse will be allotted to the players who will make it to the top 50 with the winner getting more than $4 million.
Another way of making it to this world championship poker event is through satellite tournaments. The sponsoring casinos of each WPT tournament usually conduct the tournaments. The buy-in fees are lower and the first placer will usually have their buy-ins for the WPT paid in advance.
The Bellagio Hotel itself conducts satellite tournaments a few weeks before the championship. You can log in to the official website of the hotel in order to find information on the satellite tournaments.
So if you want a shot at becoming the best in poker, the World Poker Tour is your ticket to making it big in the game.