World Poker Tour … Season three has begun airing on Wednesdays on the Travel Channel. Here are some fun facts about the World Poker Tour:
Eleven tons of equipment plus the dazzling WPT set travel with the WPT to locations all over the world. In the first two seasons, the WPT traveled 88,000 miles on three continents.
It takes 75 workers two days to assemble the arena and set up the accompanying television gear, which includes 17 cameras, up to six miles of cable, and a hodgepodge of other technical equipment.
More than $48 million was awarded in WPT prize money in the first two seasons.
There are more than 80 “regulars” who play most of the WPT events.
Season one had a total of 1,399 registrants. Season two had 4,344. That number should more than double in season three.
When play gets heads up on the WPT, there is a unique money presentation. Some of the ways the money has been brought in include via Harley-Davidson, by a frogman with a treasure chest, by a team of oxen, by Indian tribal dancers, by a Roman warrior, in a conga line of ship’s officers, in a dough bowl, by a cowboy with saddlebags, by bikini-clad beauties emerging from a sea shell, on a stagecoach, on silver platters by beautiful women accompanied by Cirque du Soleil acrobats, by police and security guard escorts, dropped from the ceiling, by Cleopatra, by airplane, and from a magician’s hand.
The players who won multiple tournaments in season one and two are: Gus Hansen (4), Howard Lederer (2), and Erick Lindgren (2).
The WPT website,
www.worldpokertour.com, has more than a million page views per week.
More than 16,000 spectators came to final-table tapings in the first two seasons.
In the first two seasons, the WPT generated more than 3,500 print stories in newspapers and magazines, including Sports Illustrated, People, The Wall Street Journal, Fortune, Business 2.0, FHM, and TV Guide, and was the subject of more than 750 national and local television segments.
again, I lifted this article from cardplayer mag
WPT fun facts 
