WPT gears up for 10th anniversary of the Five Diamonds Poker Classic

Some 10 years ago an upstart company decided that they could make poker on a television a reality. In fact, the World Poker Tour felt they could not only make televised poker a reality, but that they could make the previously niche sport appealing to a mainstream audience thanks to a new innovation known as the hole-card camera.Since then online poker had a boom that produced sites such as Pokerstars, lock poker and carbon poker.

For the WPT, most of the pieces fell into place perfectly, as they hired the perfect duo for their commentary (indeed, some 10 years later Mike Sexton and Vince Van Patten are still doing the commentary for the WPT) and the first WPT champion would go on to be one of the greatest tournament players in the history of the game, Gus Hansen.

Well, 10 years later the World Poker Tour will be back “Where it Began” as Neil Diamond would say, at the Bellagio in Las Vegas, Nevada for the Doyle Brunson Five Diamond Poker Classic. The Five Diamond Poker Classic is one of the few WPT tournaments that managed to maintain its $10,000 buy-in, making it one of the most coveted titles on the WPT.

The Main Event for the WPT Doyle Brunson Five Diamond Poker Classic will begin on December 6^th (the WPT Prague is currently underway in the Czech Republic, wrapping up on December 5^th) with the final table slated for the 11^th. Once again the WPT will stream the final table action live on the Internet, or poker fans wishing to view the condensed version can wait for the television broadcast on FOX Sports.