world poker tour shutting down?

I can only speculate, but maybe they've over extended themselves. They tried to move into the Chinese market, but everyone in the gaming industry tried to move into the Chinese market at the same time. They launched an online poker site. Does anyone here play at WorldPokerTour.com? The Cryptologic network isn't quite the biggest online poker network going (actually it's 18th). Meanwhile, the whole world's economy is in shambles, everyone's scared about where China may be headed, and there has to be an impact on tourism, hotel, and casino industry. That has to affect interest in watching poker on TV, if tourneys become smaller in the next year, and the viewer base may be jaded by years of nearly identical programming.

I hope WPT as a program can continue. But maybe the company needs to return their attention to the one product that has ever been profitable for them, and scale down their expansion. Perhaps someone else needs to buy the brand (as, for instance, we still have a World Series of Poker, but it's Harrahs, not Binions).

There`s enough potential with this though that someone else would probably step in if they go out of business. As for Cryptologic it`s not really that bad of a network and on these smaller sites the competition is generally weaker.

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in addition to what others have said they also entered into exclusive agreements that turned out to basically be dogs and a severe drain on their capital.