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World Poker Tour is giving all members of its ClubWPT.com the chance to win two seats at any $10,000 Season VIII World Poker Tour main event of their choice, in where millions of dollars will be awarded to the winners.

WPT Enterprises, owner of the World Poker Tour, has released all the details and schedule of its highly anticipated eighth season in the U.S. The 12-stop tour, which will be filmed in High Definition for broadcast on Fox Sports Net (FSN) in the United States, kicks off on July 13th at Bellagio in Las Vegas.

WPT Enterprises, Inc, owner of the World Poker Tour (WPT) tournament series, and the leading online poker site PokerStars.com, today released a statement announcing that both parts have signed an international television sponsorship deal for WPT Season VII.

21 year old online poker player, Yevgeniy Timoshenko has become the latest WPT Champ after winning the 2009 Five-Star World Poker Classic WPT Championship held at the Bellagio in Las Vegas from April 18th to 25th.

The World Poker Tour and bwin Poker have created the ultimate Poker tournament experience. Join them for WPT Venice!

Full Tilt Poker Pro Steve Brecher has won first place at the 2009 World Poker Tour Bay 101 Shooting Star held from March 16th to 20th in San Jose, California, taking home more than $1 million in prize money and his first WPT Championship title.

WPT Enterprises, owner of the World Poker Tour and the online gaming operator bwin have joined forces to bring the WPT tournament to the beautiful and historical city of Venice, creating the first WPT tournament ever held in Italy: the WPT Venice.

Chilipoker.com and WPT Enterprises announced today that they have signed an exclusive partnership to launch the first World Poker Tour event ever held on the African continent: the WPT Marrakech.

WPT Enterprises, Inc, owner of the World Poker Tour tournament series and Fox Sports Network (FSN) announced today that they have signed a contract extension to include World Poker Tour (WPT) Season VIII in FSN’s regular schedule.

The 7th Annual World Poker Tour (WPT) Invitational will be back on Saturday, February 28th; with another session of poker and glamour featuring the hottest Hollywood celebrities and the best professional poker players in a three-day Texas Hold’em tournament held at the prominent Commerce Casino in Los Angeles.

Opening its fifth year educating and cultivating poker players all over the U.S, the World Poker Tour Boot Camp has announced that it will include additional stops this year, breaking its own tradition of teaching Boot Camps exclusively at casino properties.

The 2009 World Poker Tour L.A. Poker Classic, one of the most expected poker series of the year, will kick off tomorrow with the first of the 33 preliminary events running from January 22nd to February 19th at the Commerce Casino.

WPT Enterprises and Fox Sports Net (FSN) have recently released a statement informing that the World Poker Tour Season VII will make its official debut on January 4th, 2009 during FSN's Sunday Night Sports Block.

Officials from both the WPT and Borgata have confirmed that the Borgata Poker Classic, also called “Winter Open”, has been taken out from World Poker Tour Season VII schedule.

The World Poker Tour (WPT) will return to the Bellagio Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas for the Doyle Brunson Five Diamond World Poker Classic scheduled from Friday, November 28^th to Friday, December 19^th.

In an e-mail sent to all its players at the beginning of this week, the World Poker Tour has suggested all its former customers to visit and play at InterPoker, the popular online poker room owned and operated by InterCasino

In a statement released on Thursday afternoon, World Poker Tour and Full Tilt’s informative site FullTiltPoker.net, announced a television sponsorship agreement that will provide the educational site with some air time on the WPT Season VII episodes and increase WPTE's rising sponsorship deals.

Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier, French poker pro and member of the Team PokerStars, achieved his second major victory of the year and the largest paycheck in his career.

MySpace, the biggest social network on the net and World Poker Tour (WPT) have recently teamed up to develop the first integrated poker destination with games and content for MySpace members.

WPT Enterprises Inc, owner of the World Poker Tour exclusive brand has announced that it has filed a notice with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) notifying the online gaming provider Cryptologic Inc. about an agreement termination and cease of operations of World Poker Tour online poker room and casino on the Cryptologic network starting next November 14^th, 2008.

Amateur poker player Glen Witmer gave Full Tilt Poker pro Gavin Smith a lesson of patience and perseverance in the heads up action to take down the WPT North American Championship and the $1,090,589 first-place prize.

World Poker Tour Enterprises, Inc, has announced that Thomas Flahie, a Certified Public Accountant and past Chairman of the internal control standards committee of the National Indian Gaming Association, has assumed the Chief Financial Officer position starting on October 13^th, 2008.

Sports Networks Fox Sports News and World Poker Tour have combined efforts to launch a new and innovative poker show called ClubWPT.com.

The 2008 WPT Borgata Poker Open has a new champ, twenty-two year old Vivek Rajkumar has won over $1.4 million in the fastest final table ever during a World Poker Tour event (48 hands).

A total of 373 players entered the 2008 tournament t, which represents a 23% diminution in compared with the previous edition of the World Poker Tour Legends of Poker.