Once more into the breach, dear friends, once more.
Season Nine of the long running television show “World Poker Tour” begins taping today at Bellagio in Las Vegas with a $10,000 buy-in and a potential $1,000,000 first place prize. The Bellagio Cup VI will mark the 123rd open tournament in the WPT’s eight year existence as well as the 179th and 180th televised episodes when the high stakes battle airs as a two-parter in early 2011. Thought of as a long shot when it was first broadcast on the Travel Channel in 2003, the WPT is now one of the top one hundred longest running shows in the history of television.