Imagine sitting on your couch flipping through the channels and hearing someone say, "We've got a set of cowboys up against a pair of cowboy killers." You might think you are watching a Wild West movie, but you've probably stumbled across the World Poker Tour on the Travel Channel. The World Poker Tour is a TV show that airs every Wednesday night at 8 pm Central Time. They offer an encore presentation of the program that starts at 11 pm Central Time as well. If you like fast, exciting poker playing, with witty color commentary, this is the show for you. The show features high stakes betting, fast-paced action, sights and sounds from all around the globe, and commentary from the co-hosts.
The World Poker Tour focus's on Texas Hold"em. In Texas Hold'em poker every player receives 2 face-down cards for themselves, and all of the players share 5 face-up, community cards. Like other poker variations, the winner is the player who has the strongest poker hand (the best combination of all communal cards and private cards), or is the last remaining player. The betting action goes clockwise from the player after the dealer, the three options a player can choose are betting, checking, or folding. .
The high stakes betting that takes place on The World Poker Tour is unbelievable. The players at the table quickly bet, turning pots into over one million dollars. The reason the pots can get so big so fast is because the tournament is played in a NO LIMIT fashion, where a player can bet all of his or her chips on any given hand, making this very exciting and fun to watch. This isn't play money either; the prize pools for the tournaments range anywhere from $300,000 to over $1,000,000. Each player (fields of up to 500 participants) put down a "buy-in" into the tournament. A "buy-in" is a fee put down to get a player a seat in the tournament. The players then compete in a three to five day tournament culminating at the final table.
James Butler Hickok, better known as "Wild Bill," is possibly the most famous and greatest gunfighter during the Western era. He was also known for being a scout during the Civil War, a frontiersman, an Indian killer, a marksman, a sheriff, and a gambler. Despite all the attention he has been give...