In 2021 the World Poker Tour was sold to Element Partners for $105 million.

In June 2015, The World Poker Tour (WPT) announced that bwin.party sold the company to Ourgame International Holdings Ltd. In addition, Ourgame received the rights to use the WPT logo and trademark exclusively in Bhutan, Cambodia, China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Laos, Korea, Nepal, Macau, Malaysia, Taiwan, Thailand, Philippines, and Vietnam and operate on. In December 2014, World Poker Tour announced an alliance with Ourgame, agreeing to license products and services on an exclusive basis in more than a dozen countries across Asia. In 2011, PartyGaming merged with bwin to form bwin.Party Digital Entertainment. In November 2009, PartyGaming announced its acquisition of the World Poker Tour for $12.3 million. The World Poker Tour was started in 2002 in the United States by attorney/television producer Steven Lipscomb, who served as CEO of WPT Enterprises, Inc.

The WPT Champions Cup is the trophy awarded to all winners of WPT Main Tour events, and champions have their names engraved on the Cup. The WPT Main Tour focuses on the buy-in range of $3,500–$25,000, and winners of official WPT Main Tour events are awarded a membership to the WPT Champions Club. The most prominent of World Poker Tour events belong to the WPT Main Tour. Since 2002, the World Poker Tour has operated a series of international poker tournaments and associated television series broadcasting playdown and the final table of each tournament. The World Poker Tour ( WPT) is an internationally televised gaming and entertainment brand. Poker tour held worldwide World Poker Tour Current season, competition or edition:

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