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The World Poker Tour is a collection of poker tournaments featuring most of the world's professional players. The World Poker Tour was started by attorney Stephen Lipscomb. Lipscomb now is the CEO of the World Poker Tour. The World Poker Tour began in 2002 finishing with the first ever World Poker Tour Championship in April 2003 which was held at the Bellagio Casino in Las Vegas. The first season of the World Poker Tour aired on the Travel Channel on American cable television in the spring of 2003.

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The World Poker Tour however made its network debut in February 2004 on NBC with a special "Battle of Champions" tournament and this was up against the Super Bowl pre-game show. Not only did it do ok, it held its own against the impressive foe. The World Poker Tour is a collection of Texas holdem poker tournaments held internationally and on board cruise ships, but mainly in the United States. The World Poker Tour television show led to a boom in poker across the world.

Each event of the World Poker Tour is run on the same lines. Each player receives an equal amount of chips to start. Once a player has acquired all of the chips he or she is the winner of that World Poker Tour event. In World Poker Tour events the winners get approximately 30-35% of the total prize pool which can be more than one million dollars. All World Poker Tour events attract the world best players. Fans of the World Poker Tour show find it interesting due to technical innovations such as the ability to see the players hole cards through a small camera in front of them on the poker table.