Play It Like a Pro: See World Poker Tour

Want to know where the hottest poker events are?

The World Poker Tour can, literally, show you where they are and what they are. The World Poker Tour covers leading global poker tournaments and broadcasts them over the Travel Channel every week.

Want to know how the best poker players play their hands?

The World Poker Tour can, literally, show you how by providing insight into the game, in general, and into every player's individual strategies, in particular.

The brainchild of Lyle Berman, a casino magnate, and Steve Lipscomb, a television producer, the World Poker Tour has been covering poker tournaments since its initial broadcast in March 2003. Since then, it has been the ultimate ambassador of poker, turning poker into one of the most watched and most popular card sport in the world.

The World Poker Tour engages its viewers in many ways.

Foremost, the World Poker Tour employs hole cameras to let the viewers see which players have good starting hands and which have bad starting hands. As such, viewers get the discretion about which players are making strategic bets against players making bad bet options. Viewers get to see which player has the edge, and which players are bluffing.

The cameras focusing on the players faces allow viewers to see expressions as well. Thus, you get to differentiate between players who are truly in distress and players who are bluffing.

Secondly, poker pro Mike Sexton and Vince Van Patten provide commentaries on each players game. Viewers get to hear and learn from the pros about working poker strategies.

In short, the World Poker Tour is both entertaining and informative. Any novice can learn a lot about poker simply by watching this weekly show. Among other things, you'll learn about strategy--- how pros do it either by use of facial expression or by choice of bet. If, for instance, you get an Ace and a low card in a Texas hold 'em event, do you fold or do you bet to see the flop? If you have a King and a Jack, do you call or do you raise?

You'll learn to read poker tells as well--- behavioral displays that provide clues to whether a player has a good or a bad hand. You'll learn as well how to pull off a bluff and when to pull a bluff.

Thus, if you want to play it like a pro, see and learn from the World Poker Tour on Travel Channel. Every week, the World Poker Tournament broadcasts selected tournaments across the US, Europe, and even the Caribbean. With in-depth analysis and commentaries from poker pros and cameras to show how and why poker players fold, call, check, and raise, the World Poker Tour is your ultimate entertaining guide to the best poker plays.