The World Poker Tour, along with every other tournament, was forced to cancel all events for months. What is the Stream Team? Back in March 2020 when the pandemic first struck, poker rooms across the world were closed.
Even Steve Lipscomb, the WPT's founder back in 2002, stopped by. Friends Gather in Las Vegasĭuring Day 1c of the WPT Prime Championship at Wynn, which had an impressive 5,430 entries ($5.2 million prize pool), Stream Team members, and a few plus-one's, congregated in the Brahms reception room for a tasty meal along with World Poker Tour commentators Vince Van Patten and Tony Dunst, Executive Tour Director Matt Savage, WPT President and CEO Adam Pliska, and the talented presenter Lynn Gilmartin. On Monday, the $10,400 buy in event will begin at Wynn, and the field is expected to crack 1,700 entrants, perhaps even hitting 2,000, an unthinkable amount for such an expensive tournament. The fun evening for the 50 members of the group occurred two days before the start of the historic WPT World Championship, the first ever $15 million guaranteed live poker tournament.
More than two years after they first met online, a ClubWPT group of friends dubbed the 'Stream Team' finally gathered together in Las Vegas at the luxurious Wynn for an evening of delicious bar-be-que and poker.
