Full Tilt Poker And WPT Announce TV Sponsorship Deal

A television sponsorship deal has been announced between the World Poker Tour (WPT) and FullTiltPoker.net, the educational website owned and operated by Full Tilt Poker. Under the new agreement, Full Tilt Poker will receive title sponsorship and exclusive rights to in-show educational gaming brand integration for the 26 episodes of the World Poker Tours seventh season which will be broadcast on America's Fox Sports Net.  The deal also covers season VII's broadcasts to Mexico as well.

Following the deal, Steve Lipscomb, the WPT's founder, CEO and President added: "We are delighted to be in partnership with FullTiltPoker.net and bring together two very strong brands with proven global reach and a loyal network of poker fans. With WPT's incredible brand value and TV distribution through FSN coupled with FullTiltPoker.net's massive online following, this partnership opens more channels to reach new fans and continue feeding the appetite for new poker content."

Full Tilt Poker is fronted by some of the world's finest professional poker players, including Chris Ferguson, Phil Ivey, Howard Lederer, Allen Cunningham, Jennifer Harman, Andy Bloch, Erick Lindgren, Erik Seidel, Phil Gordon, John Juanda, Mike Matusow, Patrik Antonius, and Gus Hansen.  Team Full Tilt have won an impressive 35 World Series of Poker bracelets, 10 WPT titles and their combined career earnings are in excess of $80,000,000.

The 10th edition of the Full Tilt Online Poker Series (FTOPS X) is currently taking place and offers a massive $16 million guaranteed prize pool spread over 25 events.

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