World Poker Tour Unveils Revolutionary WPT Acadmey

A comprehensive web-based
poker education center that
uses authentic poker play,
WPT Academy is designed to
provide a compelling,
interactive learning tool for
both poker enthusiasts
and novices alike

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WORLD POKER TOUR® UNVEILS
REVOLUTIONARY WPT ACADEMY™

World’s Most Comprehensive Online Poker Education Center Delivers
Instruction via Actual WPT Poker Play, Unique HANDSIM™ Database,
Video Sessions and More

LOS ANGELES (October 11, 2006) – The company behind the poker television
phenomenon, WPT Enterprises, Inc. (NASDAQ: WPTE), today unveiled the
next breakthrough development in poker—WORLD POKER TOUR Academy™. A
comprehensive web-based poker education center that uses authentic poker
play, WPT Academy is designed to provide a compelling, interactive learning
tool for both poker enthusiasts and novices alike. To ensure everyone in the
poker community can experience WPT Academy, full access will be available
on a free subscriber basis for a limited time.

Leveraging a database of over 1700 final table hands during 13 WORLD
POKER TOUR® (WPT) Season I tournaments—including 900 hands that never
made it to air on the Travel Channel—WPT Academy offers a vast database
and ground-breaking features, including:

• HANDSIM™: HANDSIM is a graphically compelling and sophisticated hand
search engine and simulator. Utilizing hole camera data, bets and actions,
and play-by-play details, HANDSIM allows users to search the database for
players, hole card values, card combinations, odds percentages, position, pre-
and post-flop and much more. For a full list of HANDSIM capabilities, visit www.
worldpokertour.com.

• VIDEO SESSIONS WITH THE PROS: These short, engaging video tutorials
are hosted by WPT stars, including WPT Player of the Year Gavin Smith, WPT
Ladies’ Night® stars Evelyn Ng and Vanessa Rousso, among many others.
These entertaining, educational videos cover a variety of topics which include
“Win It Now,” “Aces,” “Bluffing,” “Aggressive Play,” “Short Stack,” and
“Maximizing Value.”

• INTERACTIVE COMMUNITY: Enhancing the WPT Academy’s interactive
experience, poker fans will be able to log on and comment on their favorite
hands, submit their own analysis, rank hands — creating a community for
WPT fans to share their thoughts about thousands of hands and reflect on
how they were played.

• FOLLOW YOUR FAVORITES: Poker fans can follow their favorite players—
even the hands they folded. WPT Academy features final table play-by-play
from pokers’ best, including Scotty Nguyen, Doyle Brunson, Gus Hansen, John
Juanda, Phil Ivey, Phil Hellmuth, Kathy Liebert, Antonio Esfandiari, T.J. Cloutier
and many more.

“Bringing together the depths of our content library and the vast number of
WPT resources, WPT Academy provides for the poker community THE
foremost edge on all things poker,” said James Revell, Vice President of WPT
Interactive. “We will continue populating the database, integrating fresh
content and distributing new video lessons on a regular basis so that people
will come back again and again to increase their knowledge in a fun and
creative way. It’s an exceptional tool for the serious student to the person
who just wants to win a bet on the best way to play pocket sixes.”

“WPT Academy is the most innovative and comprehensive community-driven
learning environment on the Internet,” says Steve Lipscomb, founder and
CEO of WPTE. “Coupled with additional content pieces, such as articles,
pictures and educational pieces, the WPT Academy will deliver the full circle
poker experience—watching WPT on the Travel Channel, honing your game
with the WPT Academy, and maybe even playing poker in a WPT tournament.”

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