The World Poker Tour has been around for quite some time and there are some multi-winners amongst the top ranked poker players around the world.  Now that the event is more publicized and is shown on television, it has created a sharp increase in the number of people who play the game.  There are 3 things that make the World Poker Tour compelling to watch.

1.                  The first is that the poker game played "No Limit Texas Hold'em" is an exciting game.  You never know what the players are going to bet.  Someone could be down to their last few chips, someone else go all in, and the first person wins and leaves the opponent short stacked.  It's a game of rapidly changing fortunes and very rarely does someone take the chip lead and stay there. 

2.                  The second reason is the personalities that are starting to become well known to those who watch the World Poker Tour on television.  These faces are now staring back at us from the increasing number of poker magazines on the shelves and we know who they are from watching the TV.  We know the players that are old masters at the game, the ones that are the up and rising stars, we know which players are charismatic and which ones are all strategy and few smiles.

3.                  The last reason is perhaps the most important when it comes to showing that the World Poker Tour is now within anyone's grasp to win if they have the poker skills to get them to that final table - and that is that anyone who plays the game, and plays it well, could one day be sitting with the famous poker players at a WPT final table.  Some of the newer players who have recently sat at that Word Poker Tour final table have been players who had never before set foot inside a casino, but had won their place in the tournament through various satellite competitions of online poker.  The skills they had mastered at online poker had been enough to see off the competition however and they made it to that all important WPT final table.  If they can do it, so can you!

For any poker player who wants to play more than around the kitchen table or at a cyber casino, the WPT is the "big one" - and despite the competition from other tournaments, remains the one tournament that everyone wants to win.