WPT Co-Founder Makes Run in WPT Championship

Back in 2001, the World Poker Tour was just an idea bantered about between Steve Lipscomb and Lyle Berman. By early 2003, the earliest episodes of the WPT began to air, and more than 20 years later we’re in the midst of the biggest Championship Event in the history of the tour at the WPT World Championship at Wynn Las Vegas.

Berman was there in the WPT’s earliest, most formative days. And on Monday, as Day 4 of the World Championship kicked off with just 132 players in the field, Berman was deep in the mix as a player, with a chance to claim the spoils of a tournament that even he couldn’t have imagined all the way back in the early 2000s.