World Poker Tour Episodes Head to Bollywood

We'd like to curry favor with this hot girl from India, where the WPT is going to broadcast its Season IV.

In what will be great news to our billions of readers who are snake charmers, call center service reps and elephant-riding cricket fans, season IV of the World Poker Tour will be broadcast in India starting this September on Zee Sports, the country's first private sports channel.

According to a press release:

"Zee Sports will exclusively broadcast nineteen two-hour WPT Season IV episodes in India. Zee Sports will promote the WPT series on-air and online through its website www.zeesports.co.in. It will broadcast the episodes alongside current sports programming such as football, cricket, tennis, motor sports and golf. The series is scheduled to begin airing in September."

WPT was silent on whether embarrassingly infectious song-and-dance numbers would be added to the episodes to increase the show's appeal.

Of note, season IV took place in 2005-2006, which is when Joe Bartholdi won the WPT Championship, and up-runner the was Matthew Davidson fave Poker Chops Wicked.

In related news, the Indian Thriller video below is awesome.

   

               

                         

World Poker Tour(R) Hits India

WPT Strikes Ground-Breaking Deal with India's Leading Broadcaster                     

WPTE  and ZEE Entertainment Enterprises Limited announced that the World Poker Tour(R) (WPT) television series will air on Zee Sports, India's first private sports channel, this September. Zee Sports is the flagship sports channel of Zee Network, the largest media franchise serving the South Asian Diaspora and the largest producer of Hindi programming in the world.        

                   

"Zee Sports and WPTE together create a powerful partnership as the most trusted vehicles to introduce poker to India," said Steve Lipscomb, WPT Founder, President and CEO. "We are delighted to be making history together."        

           

Zee Sports will exclusively broadcast nineteen two-hour WPT Season IV episodes in India. Zee Sports will promote the WPT series on-air and online through its website  www.zeesports.co.in. It will broadcast the episodes alongside current sports programming such as football, cricket, tennis, motor sports and golf. The series is scheduled to begin airing in September.