World Poker Tour Enterprises is taking its collection of final table hands filmed during its first season and is opening up a school.
The World Poker Tour Academy is a Web-based interactive education center that uses real play from championship tables to beat home the lessons. It will be a subscription service, but right now, enrollment is free for a limited time.
The school's database contains more than 1,700 hands from the first season of the WPT, and that includes 900 hands that never made it to the air. Some of the school's features include:
- Handsim: Handsim is a hand search engine and simulator. Utilizing hole camera data, bets, actions, and play-by-play details, it allows users to search the database for players, hole card values, card combinations, odds percentages, position, pre- and post-flop and much more.
- Video sessions with the pros: These short, video tutorials are hosted by WPT stars, including WPT Player of the Year Gavin Smith and WPT Ladies' Night stars Evelyn Ng and Vanessa Rousso, among many others.
- Interactive community: To enhance the WPT Academy's interactive experience, poker fans will be able to log on and comment on their favorite hands, submit their own analysis, rank hands, and talk about whatever else they like.
- Ability to follow favorite players: Poker fans can follow the play of their favorite players and even see the hands they folded. WPT Academy features final table play-by-play from poker's best, including Scotty Nguyen, Doyle Brunson, Gus Hansen, John Juanda, Phil Ivey, Phil Hellmuth, Kathy Liebert, Antonio Esfandiari, T.J. Cloutier, and many more.
Visit WPT's website for more information.
