The series moved to Monday nights since the move to GSN in 2008. The third season is only available in a "Best Of" format, featuring just half of the episodes.) CITY TV airs the WPT on Sundays at 4pm PST in Canada with a rebroadcast at Midnight (or shortly after depending on the length of their Sunday Night Movie. (The second season DVD set features audio commentary by several of the players. The first three seasons of WPT are also available on NTSC DVD.
Now in its sixth season of broadcast, it still remains among the highest rated television programs on cable. In 2004, the World Poker Tour created a Walk of Fame, inducting poker legends Doyle Brunson and Gus Hansen as well as actor James Garner. The drawing power of the WPT and most other poker tournaments is that anyone who can pay the "buy-in" (an amount ranging from $2,500 to $25,000) or win a "satellite" tournament is able to compete against the top professional players. In July 2008, WPTE announced that the series would move to Fox Sports Net for its seventh season. The first WPT tournament to air on GSN, the Mirage Poker Showdown, debuted on March 24, 2008. In April 2007, WPTE announced that the series would move to GSN for its sixth season in the spring of 2008. The Travel Channel aired the first five seasons of the Tour. The show made its network debut on Februon NBC with a special "Battle Of Champions" tournament, which aired against CBS coverage of the Super Bowl XXXVIII pre-game show. The first season aired on the Travel Channel on American cable television in the spring of 2003. The tour had its debut season in the latter part of 2002 and early part of 2003, climaxing with the WPT Championship in April 2003 at the Bellagio Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada. Lynn Gilmartin assumed the anchor role for season twelve and remains the current anchor for season thirteen, airing on Fox Sports Networks. Kimberly Lansing returned as anchor for seasons nine through eleven.
Poker player and reporter Amanda Leatherman was the hostess for season seven. Layla Kayleigh and Kimberly Lansing began serving as hostesses in season six. Courtney Friel took over the host role for the fourth season, and Sabina Gadecki for the fifth. Shana Hiatt served as the show host and sideline reporter in its first three seasons. The show, which is syndicated internationally, is co-hosted by World Series of Poker bracelet winner Mike Sexton, and actor Vince Van Patten. The key sponsors of the tour are casinos and online poker sites. 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 World Poker Tour is a collection of Texas hold 'em poker tournaments held internationally, but mainly in the United States.
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