World Poker Tour (WPT) followers can tune in to CBS Sports activities Community beginning this month to look at upcoming WPT televised reveals.
The foremost cable community and the favored poker tour, in accordance with a press launch, have agreed to a multi-year tv deal. Motion will start on CBS Sports activities Community with edited episodes of the WPT’s Season XXI.
WPT Motion on CBS Sports activities Community
CBS Sports activities Community has been dwelling to the World Collection of Poker (WSOP) since 2021 (beforehand ESPN). The sports activities channel will add WPT occasions to its tv lineup starting in November.
Season XXI, which occurred in 2023, featured some memorable moments, together with the $40 million prize pool WPT World Championship at Wynn. Dan Sepiol took it down for a life-changing $5.three million. Poker followers who have not watched or need to relive that historic occasion can accomplish that within the coming months on CBS Sports activities Community.
The cable channel will first air the 2023 WPT Seminole Laborious Rock Poker Showdown Championship, a match that started in South Florida and concluded on the closing desk in Las Vegas in Could with Josh Reichard taking it down for $839,300. Reichard, who captured his first World Poker Tour title, defeated Landon Tice heads-up.
“Since our debut on the Journey Channel again in 2002, our WPT tv presence has grown considerably in each manufacturing high quality and attain,” mentioned WPT CEO Adam Pliska. “We’re extremely grateful to accomplice with a top-tier community and can’t wait to share a wealth of premium poker programming to the huge CBS Sports activities viewers.”
The World Poker Tour, a Steve Lipscomb creation, launched in 2002 on, as Pliska mentioned, the Journey Channel. The poker tour then moved to Fox Sports activities and FS1 earlier than just lately airing on Bally Sports activities Regional Networks, and is now headed over to CBS Sports activities Community, which is on the market on most cable packages, YouTube TV, DIRECTV, and Pluto TV.
WatchWPT, the World Poker Tour’s app, additionally has over 150 previous episodes of WPT occasions archived.
“CBS Sports activities Community is the best accomplice to raise WPT TV and develop its attain to new households across the nation,” mentioned Loc Sondheim, WPT VP of Studios, Distribution and Advert Gross sales. “It’s an honor to deliver the thrill of poker to a community that showcases a few of the largest occasions in sports activities.”
The present World Poker Tour season, which incorporates the upcoming WPT World Championship and ClubWPT Gold $5 Million Invitational Freeroll, will in the end air on CBS Sports activities Community.
