The World Poker Tour is a collection of Texas hold ’em poker tournaments held internationally, but mainly in the United States. The television show has led to a boom in the table game across American homes, in local casino poker rooms and online.
The key sponsors of the tour are casinos and online poker sites. The show, which is syndicated internationally, is co-hosted by World Series of Poker winner Mike Sexton, and actor Vince Van Patten.
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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. The first season aired on the Travel Channel on American cable television in the spring of 2003.
The show made its network debut on February 1, 2004 on NBC with a special “Battle Of Champions” tournament, which aired against CBS coverage of the Super Bowl XXXVIII pre-game show. The Travel Channel aired the first five seasons of the Tour. In April 2007, WPTE announced that the series would move to GSN for its sixth season in the spring of 2008.
Now in its fifth season of broadcast, it still remains among the highest rated television programs on cable. It airs Wednesdays on the Travel Channel. The first three seasons of WPT are also available on NTSC DVD.
CITY TV airs the WPT on Sundays at 4pm ET in Canada with a rebroadcast at Midnight (or shortly after depending on the length of their Sunday Night Movie. The series will move to Monday nights when it moves to GSN in 2008.
Player of the Year
Points are awarded for all Open events as follows:
- Winner: 1000 points
- Runner-up: 700 points
- 3rd place: 600 points
- 4th place: 500 points
- 5th place: 400 points
- 6th place: 300 points
- 7th place (TV bubble): 200 points
This award is given out to one player per season. The winners so far are:
- Season 1: Howard Lederer
- Season 2: Erick Lindgren
- Season 3: Daniel Negreanu
- Season 4: Gavin Smith
- Season 5: J. C. Tran
Happy New Year everyone. Today I have another hand to share from the $3,500 buy-in World Poker Tour Borgata Main Event, one that provides us an opportunity to discuss value betting with strong hands.
The hand took place late on Day 2 just as we were approaching the money and began with a loose-aggressive player with 56,000 raising the minimum to 8,000 from the cutoff.
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It folded to me in the small blind with a big stack of 278,000 and . Some players routinely three-bet when playing from the small blind, but in this case I had a tight player on my left in the big blind who I expected to fold a lot if I just called. So I called, the big blind did fold, and the flop came perfectly for me — to give me a straight.
Should I lead here? If so, how much? Should I check with a plan to check-raise? Or should I check-call and try to get chips in on a later street?
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In this case I checked and my opponent did, too, then the turn meant I no longer had the nuts. That said, I thought this particular opponent would have likely bet his flush draws on the flop, which meant I wasn't too worried about not having the best hand.
From here the hand is all about value betting and finding the right bet sizes to try to win the maximum. Take a look at how things play out and hear my analysis:
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Jonathan Little is a professional poker player and author with over $7,000,000 in live tournament earnings. He writes a weekly educational blog and hosts a podcast at JonathanLittlePoker.com. Sign up to learn poker from Jonathan for free at PokerCoaching.com. You can follow him on Twitter @JonathanLittle.
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