WPT ups ante with launch of Chinese Poker Tournament: Traktor-style competition features four players with two decks.WPT WPT World Poker Tour WPT Waypoint WPT Wisconsin Public Television WPT Watson Poker Tour WPT Wonderlic Personnel Test WPT Wavelet Packet Transform WPT Wireless Power Transmission WPT Windfall Profit WPT Wireless Personal Terminal WPT Word Processing Technician Enterprises Inc., producer of the televised World Poker Tour For the PBS network with the same abbreviation, see . The World Poker Tour (Abbreviated WPT) is a series of international poker tournaments featuring most of the world's professional players. , is making headway in a huge gaming frontier: It is heading to China this fall. WPT and China Leisure Sports Administrative Center, announced recently that WPT will be the exclusive marketing partner for the launch of China's first-ever National Traktor Poker Tournament A poker tournament is a tournament in which the winners are decided by playing poker, usually a particular style of poker. Contrast this to a ring game, where the game is ongoing with no formal structure to determine a single winner in a certain length of time. . China has extremely stringent gaming laws; this is the first time a poker brand has been sanctioned in China and the five-year partnership is a landmark agreement in China's leisure sports history. The tour will focus on growing the sport of Traktor Poker, known as Tuo La Ji, China's most popular poker game. Traktor is a style of poker typically played with four players and two decks of cards where kings, tens and fives hold the highest point value. WPT will pay a yearly fee to the leisure sports administrative group starting at $505,000. It will increase 10 percent annually for the remaining four years of the term. The deal was about nine months in the making; there's been no word on the stakes for tournament participants. "People have come out of the woodwork wanting to be part of this because everyone is trying to find a way to participate in the largest market in the world," said Steve Lipscomb, chief executive of WPT, which has headquarters on L.A.'s Miracle Mile Miracle Mile can refer to the following places:
More than half of the Chinese population knows how to play Traktor Poker, and at any given time, Traktor Poker counts for nearly half of the online poker Online poker is the game of poker played over the Internet. It has been partly responsible for a dramatic increase in the number of poker players worldwide. In 2005, revenues from online poker were estimated at US$ 200 million per month. activity on Ourgame.com, the leading website for such games in China and the official online partner of the Tour. The leisure sports administrative group, China's governing body Noun 1. governing body - the persons (or committees or departments etc.) who make up a body for the purpose of administering something; "he claims that the present administration is corrupt"; "the governance of an association is responsible to its members"; "he of leisure sports including billiards billiards, any one of a number of games played with a tapered, leather-tipped stick called a cue and various numbers of balls on a rectangular, cloth-covered slate table with raised and cushioned edges. and ping pong (1) A half-duplex communications method in which data are transmitted in one direction and acknowledgment is returned at the same speed in the other. The line is alternately switched from transmit to receive in each direction. Contrast with asymmetric modem. , adopted formal rules in 2002 in order to unify the many local styles of Traktor and allow for better management of the sport. "In the past years, Traktor poker matches were organized in many provinces and cities as Beijing, Shanghai and Chengdu with thousands of participants. And (the number) of users who play online poker games are even increasing more rapidly," said Xing Xiaoquan, director of the leisure sports administrative group. Staff reporter Anne Riley-Katz at can be reached at ariley-katz@labusinessjournal.com or (323) 549-5225, ext 225. |
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