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Matt Savage Stays as Consultant to North American Poker Tour

Company Was Recently Purchased by a Venture Capital Firm

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The most famous poker tournament director in the world is tied to another poker project that promises to sponsor and televise tournament poker in states across America.

Hansen Gray & Company, Inc., which just last month purchased the Las Vegas-based event management and marketing company NAPP Tour Inc., announced it was keeping Matt Savage as its poker tournament director consultant.

NAPP Tour is an entertainment company that came up with and copyrighted the idea behind the North American Poker Tour.

Hansen Gray & Company is a strategic venture capital firm that acquires or invests in companies it believes have the potential to become leaders in their respective markets.

Savage's job will be to manage the development and implementation of Hansen & Gray's strategic plan to establish poker tournaments throughout North America.

Savage has directed hundreds of tournaments and founded the Tournament Directors Association. He is also the poker tournament director of the Small Town Poker Tour, a production company that will soon began holding and filming charity tournaments across the America.