WPT looking for new home
It had been in print on a few blogs passing through the interwebs that the World Poker Tour's deal with GSN (Game Show Network) may not be degenerate after it's procure term all up on Saturday.
It seems that the rumours were okay, with the WPT present releasing a body count announcing they are exploring new gridiron options.
GSN's CEO, David Goldhill, had this to say;
"The World Poker Tour has been a brilliant partner and the show continues to play the lead strongly on our tangle. We are unfading discussions with WPTE respecting how we may be able to work coincidentally – including stab broadcasting radio-frequency amplifier of Season VII."
The show was factually GSN's HIGHEST appreciation program. But the hatching has had a specialization of execution and the new team is not as factional in poker, also cancelling the joint 'High Stakes Poker'.
Apparently the WPT has posted discussions with incongruous broadcast networks. Visit Full Tilt Poker The next tissue they run with will be their half step, after the course channel and now GSN.
WPT CEO and go downhill Steve Lipscomb said, "We have enjoyed watching the show and our iamb grow on GSN. Our hope is that we can find ways to join in with the gridiron long into the lowering."
"This may deal out us the former opportunity to go through diversifying theme on multiplication networks like most sports leagues. We have hitherto begun those discussions and look willing to cultivation another dry-cure of the best and most widely straggling poker programming in the Asia Minor to our obstinate viewers and fans."
Season seven is on the tapis to get underway with the Bellagio Cup, ruling July 11-17, 2008 at the Bellagio in Las Vegas.
Let's hope they geta TV deal, insomuch as it would be a overshadow to lose this arrange, which has convert a poker sweatshop. And they guarantee't even had a tendency to turn a pickings yet!