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• Trivia In one of the most bizarre series of events at the table, at the World Poker Open 2005 in Tunica, Mississippi, Scotty Nguyen moved all in three hands in a row and was called all three times by opponents holding King-Eight of clubs. He was first called by Daniel Negreanu, Scotty held Queen of clubs and Jack of spades. The board read; Jd 10cl 10sp 9d 3sp, giving Scotty two pair, Jacks and tens, and the win. The very next hand he was called by another player at the table, the eventual winner of the event, John Stolzmann. This time Scotty held 9-8 of spades. The board read; 10cl Acl Ksp 4d Jh, giving Stolzmann a pair of Kings and the win. The very next hand Scotty pushed all in once again, this time holding Acl 5sp. Daniel Negreanu who, upon seeing his hole cards and realizing that it was once again K-8 of clubs, looked somewhat surprised and even a little startled, made the call. The board read; 5cl 8sp Kh 9sp 7sp, giving Negreanu two pair Kings and Eights and the win. Thus, knocking out Scotty Nguyen in fourth place.

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Texas Tech Now

Newly hired rawls college leader founded the world poker tour.

April 19, 2024

Steve Lipscomb will use his expertise to expand the Alderson & Griffin Center for Family Business & Entrepreneurship as its executive director.

Steve Lipscomb wants his students at Texas Tech University 's Jerry S. Rawls College of Business to understand it's not often a business comes together according to plan. 

He knows success stories like that can seem unrealistic, but from his experience creating the World Poker Tour (WPT) in the early 2000s, it can happen – and fast. 

“The first three to five years played exactly as I had pitched to our investors,” Lipscomb recalled. “I told them we were going to make this into a televised sport and people were going to flock to it.”

Lipscomb remembers it was like riding a wave as he juggled the titles of CEO, promoter, writer, producer and director, determined to transform poker into a televised mainstream sport. As he gained his balance and began to enjoy the view, he became a huge believer in the art of doing – an endurance race he still enjoys today. 

Lipscomb will not only practice this work ethic, but also will strive to “create and iterate” as the newly hired executive director for the Alderson & Griffin Center for Family Business & Entrepreneurship . The center provides innovative networking opportunities, insightful educational forums and discussions, relevant academic programs and applied research to a wide range of entrepreneurs including emerging leaders, successors, senior generations, students and key nonfamily executives.

“The center is an important addition to the fertile ground we are seeding at Rawls and Texas Tech to encourage students, faculty and our community to help us build the futures we all desire,” said Rawls College Dean Margaret L. Williams . “We are excited to have Mr. Lipscomb join our exceptional faculty as an associate practice professor and look forward to benefiting from his years of experience building, advising and shaping successful public and private ventures.”

The Alderson & Griffin Center for Family Business & Entrepreneurship is strategically positioned at the intersection of corporate enterprise, entrepreneurial innovation and academic research. Lipscomb is “all in” to further elevate its collective creation, progress and understanding.

“I think nobody knows what you're capable of more than you do,” he said. “The center will be a place where people can discover what that means for them.”

Taking a Gamble

In Lipscomb's case, the more he was told the WPT would never work, the more he knew it would. 

There was a time when The New Yorker magazine even weighed in on the WPT phenomenon with a cartoon that jokingly questioned why poker was featured on the Travel Channel. Lipscomb shares in the same bewilderment about his own life path, having earned a Doctor of Jurisprudence from University of Chicago Law School with the intent to become a lawyer. 

While he enjoyed law school and thrived there, the Tennessee native found himself equally intrigued by the classes and performances he participated in at The Second City, a comedy club/theater and school of improvisation in Chicago. Post graduation, he moved to Los Angeles and quickly realized his law firm work was just a way to support his entertainment habit. 

“It was pretty clear in my mind that I was headed do some sort of crazy showbiz stuff,” he said. 

His first film venture was a documentary chronicling changes in the Southern Baptist Convention and its impact on women pastors. The film performed well at festivals, won numerous awards and garnered the attention of Hollywood producers and screenwriters like Al Burton and Norman Lear. 

That opened the door for Lipscomb to begin producing television with them and others. While on hiatus from producing a show for Comedy Central, Lipscomb had the opportunity to produce and direct a one-hour documentary about poker to air on the Discovery Channel. He accepted and quickly became intrigued about the poker world. 

“I witnessed this remarkable, but very small community of people playing poker for a living,” Lipscomb said. “When that one-hour documentary aired, it doubled its audience in an hour with no promotion. Very clearly, there was an audience who wanted to watch poker.”

Lipscomb pitched “poker as a sport” to every network he could find focused on sports or reality programming but was turned down flat. 

“They thought I was nuts,” he recalled, “which turned out to be the best “bad beat” of my life. When they said ‘no,' I quickly managed to raise money and launched the World Poker Tour as the first poker sports league on the planet.”

At first, it was a challenge for Lipscomb to figure out how to make a card game appear exciting and digestible to viewers who are not poker aficionados. He described this trial-and-error process as a post-production tangled mess that took eight months to unravel. 

The solution involved 16 cameras with angles that showed the cards not too little or too much, paired with custom-built graphics that popped out when players looked at their cards and disappeared when they folded. This enabled viewers to comprehend the game even while on mute or in a bar.  

“We did testing in Las Vegas that helped the network understand people were not just interested in fluffy pieces about casinos,” Lipscomb explained. “They wanted to watch the poker.”

Sure enough, once the WPT began airing in 2003, all doubts about Lipscomb's creation were crushed by numbers. Almost immediately on the Travel Channel, they had a household rating of 1.5-2% – comparable to National Basketball Association games at the time. 

Publications such as the Wall Street Journal and Inc. Magazine featured Lipscomb and his WPT success story on their front pages and covers as the show continued to skyrocket in popularity. 

Just one year later, Lipscomb and his executive team looked up in awe at the Nasdaq billboard in Times Square after ringing the bell to take WPT Enterprises, Inc. public. From that point forward, he progressively removed many of his early WPT hats, one by one, to focus on the company's growth as its president and CEO.

“The world changed and I sort of found what I would call ‘my jam,' which was the excitement of building something from nothing and scaling every vertical we could find,” he said, “from consumer products to electronic video games and other categories.”

No Bluff Business

Looking back, Lipscomb considers the WPT as his business school of sorts as he worked to transform a television show into a global sports/gaming brand.

“We had an incredible team that didn't say ‘no' a lot,” he credited. “We found ways to say ‘yes' to build things that worked, and when they didn't work, we got better and better at moving on quickly.”

He and his teammates created award-winning consumer products, marketing partnerships and brand-building verticals; while, at the same time, seeding and launching numerous businesses, including the world's first poker talent management company, the first televised card tour in China's history and a popular mobile phone game. 

By 2009, Lipscomb was approached by multiple companies interested in purchasing the WPT. After carefully analyzing the hand in front of them, he and the board decided it was time to cash in those chips. 

“The acquirer was an online gaming group in the market segment that was making most of the money at the time,” he said. “I was not interested in staying onboard, so I walked off into the sunset to find the next thing.”

After his WPT chapter closed, Lipscomb felt empowered by the business knowledge he absorbed from the experience. He remained CEO of the publicly traded shell company and merged it to expand an existing energy company, quadrupling the stock price. He then became CEO of the spinoff company to oversee a private placement memorandum and the monetization of leftover WPT assets, which produced more than $25 million for the new company to deploy in the domestic oil and gas industry.

“Once I handed off management of the two spinoff public companies, I blissfully worked myself out of a job,” he said. “I planned to spend the rest of my time trying to help people build stuff to make the world a better place.”

Lipscomb formed Practicrats, LLC to chase this passion by working with corporations, sports leagues and foundations to build businesses. He is founder/board chair of Gamers.Vote which partners with gamers, influencers and companies to encourage voter participation, as well as GamersAct.org, inspiring gamers to address climate change. He also spent a decade as managing director of FixItAmerica.org which supported bi-partisan resolutions in state legislatures. 

As part of those initiatives, he attended the EarthX conference in Dallas last year where a government official inspired him and other private enterprises to aim toward a more sustainable future. 

“I walked away from there thinking I needed to find a way to do more,” he admitted.

A few conversations later, he learned about the job posting for the Alderson & Griffin Center for Family Business & Entrepreneurship and felt what he describes as a “Star Wars” tractor beam drawing him to the position. 

He is convinced the work being done at Texas Tech can change the world, and this belief only strengthened after his visit to campus. 

“The sort of visionary people like Dean Williams and the leadership at Texas Tech pulled me in,” he said. “I think we have lofty goals, and I say ‘we' because I feel like nothing gets done by an individual. It's always done with people, so to join that community and find a way to try to help it grow and flourish is exciting to me.”

Lipscomb officially began his Rawls College role April 11. He plans to teach one class a semester beginning in the fall, but the Alderson & Griffin Center for Family Business & Entrepreneurship activities will begin immediately and include the ongoing McCoy Family Business Speaker Series .  

“There are great minds here and great things happening,” he said. “I think there's never been a better time, with all of the resources around us, for people to join together and do amazing things. That's what this opportunity means to me.”

Lipscomb laughs as he discloses he would have never imagined jumping up and down to participate in a business school program a year ago. But he says that is the beauty of his remarkably blessed and wonderful journey. 

“I find in life it's always better to pick a path and start walking,” he shared. “If you had told me when I made my first social issue documentary about religious faith that I was going to be the poker guy, I would have told you that was crazy. But that's the way life works, I think. 

“And I certainly encourage everyone around me to do the same. So, if you have something in you that just won't be quiet – something you feel like you need to build – please come and join us.”

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Go beneath the streets on this tour of the spectacular, mind-bending Moscow Metro! Be awed by architecture and spot the Propaganda , then hear soviet stories from a local in the know. Finish it all up above ground, looking up to Stalins skyscrapers, and get the inside scoop on whats gone on behind those walls.

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We begin our Moscow tour beneath the city, exploring the underground palace of the Moscow Metro. From the Square of Revolution station, famous for its huge statues of soviet people (an armed soldier, a farmer with a rooster, a warrior, and more), we’ll move onto some of the most significant stations, where impressive mosaics, columns, and chandeliers will boggle your eyes! Moreover, these stations reveal a big part of soviet reality — the walls depict plenty of Propaganda , with party leaders looking down from images on the walls. Your local guide will share personal stories of his/her family from USSR times, giving you insight into Russia’s complicated past and present. Then we’re coming back up to street level, where we’ll take a break and refuel with some Russian fast food: traditional pancakes, called bliny. And then, stomachs satiated, we are ready to move forward! We’ll take the eco-friendly electric trolleybus, with a route along the Moscow Garden Ring. Used mainly by Russian babushkas(grannies) during the day, the trolleybus hits peak hours in the mornings and evenings, when many locals use it going to and from their days. Our first stop will be the Aviator’s House, one of Stalin’s Seven Sisters, followed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs — and you’ll hear the legends of what has gone on inside the walls. Throughout your Moscow tour, you’ll learn curious facts from soviet history while seeing how Russia exists now, 25 years after the USSR.

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Meet The Final Table of WPT Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown

Here are the final six players left to battle for the wpt seminole hard rock poker open title and the $839,300 first-place prize..

Since 2012, the WPT Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown has been a pillar of the World Poker Tour schedule. It’s a popular stop with the promise of big names in the world of poker playing for even bigger paydays and a title worthy of putting at the top of their resume. This year was no different, with 1,869 entries making their way to Hollywood, Florida to take their shot, pushing the prize pool to just a shade under $6 million with a first-place prize of $839,300.

SHRPS is also the first televised final table of Season XXII, as the tournament’s paused with these final six players remaining set to reconvene in Las Vegas on May 29 to determine who will have their name engraved on the iconic Mike Sexton WPT Champions Cup. In addition to the money and their Championship run being televised for all to see, the winner will also pick up a seat to the WPT World Championship at Wynn Las Vegas in December and instantly be thrust into the WPT Player of the Year conversation.

Fortunately for viewers, this final table really delivers. It’s an electric mix of poker superstars, longtime crushers and local heroes – all of whom will undoubtedly provide plenty of action. So let’s dive in and take a closer look at the final table of WPT Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown.

Dylan Smith – 28,400,000

Home Country: United States Resides: Ft. Lauderdale, FL Lifetime Live Tournament Earnings: $1,816,225 Biggest Lifetime Cash: $364,440 – 1st, 2023 PokerStars PCA $25,000 PLO High Roller Other Prominent Scores: $167,700 – 7th, 2023 PokerStars PCA $25,000 High Roller, $166,800 – 2nd, 2023 WPT SHRPS PLO High Roller, $160,700 – 2nd, 2023 WPT SHRPS $10K Deep Stack

A noted Pot-Limit Omaha cash game crusher, Dylan Smith sure has been finding success at the tournament tables over the past year and a half. He took home the first two six-figure scores of his career at the start of 2023 after taking down a PokerStars PCA PLO High Roller and then, days later, making the final table of another $25K high roller. That seemed to break the floodgates open as the Florida resident scored a victory and two runner-up finishes at the 2023 SHRPS – and he’s seemingly having his way again here in 2024.

“This actual same tournament last year, I got 12th. So that was kind of heartbreaking,” Smith said. “I’ve been trying to get myself onto a WPT final table for a while now. So yeah, I’m excited.”

Earlier in the festival, Smith scored a third-place finish in another SHRPS $25K PLO High Roller to push his career live tournament earnings to more than $1.8 million, and all he needs to do is finish 5th of higher at this year’s final table to surpass two million – something he’ll do with a third-place or higher finish, which would eclipse his current personal poker high score.

“I think I have a pretty big chip lead, like a third of the chips and play. The Final Table is one of the tougher ones that I’ve seen in the WPT – normally there’s an amateur at these final tables. Every single person here is a professional, some pretty solid players. So yeah, anything could happen. But I like my spot going into it.”

End of Day 1 chips – 208,500 End of Day 2 chips – 635,000 End of Day 3 chips – 4,950,000

Joshua Reichard – 20,575,000

Home Country: United States Resides: Janesville, WI Lifetime Live Tournament Earnings: $3,183,799 Biggest Lifetime Cash: $339,646 – 2nd, 2023 WSOP $1K Mini Main Event Other Prominent Scores: $253,073 – $1st, 2023 WSOP Circuit Chicago $1,700 Main Event, $221,293 – 1st, 2018 Heartland Poker Tour Chicago $2,500 Main Event

If you are looking for who has the most final table experience, it’s going to be tough to beat Wisconsin’s Joshua Reichard . With 15 World Series of Poker Circuit rings, tied for 2nd all-time , Reichard absolutely knows what it takes to close out a final table. As far as a major title goes, Reichard’s knocked on the door before, most notably in the WSOP $1,000 Mini Main Event in 2023 when he got heads-up for a gold bracelet.

A World Poker Tour title and a first-place score of more than $839,000 would immediately be the new career-defining top line of his poker résumé, in a career that’s already seen him win over $3.1 million.

Reichard has had his fair share of success on the WPT to this point, with more than $121,000 in earnings over eight cashes, but sitting second in chips is by far the best spot he’s ever been in to punch his ticket to the Champions Club.

End of Day 1 chips – 210,000 End of Day 2 chips – 3,100,000 (chip leader) End of Day 3 chips – 22,200,000 (chip leader)

Landon Tice – 13,700,000

Home Country: United States Resides: Las Vegas, NV Lifetime Live Tournament Earnings: $860,527 Biggest Lifetime Cash: $201,529 – 1st, 2020 MSPT $1,000 NLHE Other Prominent Scores: $90,020 – 10th WPT SHRPS $25K High Roller, $74,648 – 5th 2023 WSOP $25K Heads-Up Championship

For as well-known as Landon Tice has become in poker, he’s currently in one of – if not the – biggest spots in his career. The Only Friends podcast co-host, nicknamed “Child of the Sim” for his dedication to studying solvers and GTO style of play, is at his first WPT final table and in striking distance of not just a career-high cash (accomplished with a 5th or better finish) but a validating title to put atop his still young poker résumé.

“It’s not something that I can necessarily say I expected by any means,” Tice said of making the final table. “I just kind of took every spot for what it was and got lucky. Got some gifts along the way. And it’s nice to be able to cash in a lot of the study that I’ve been doing. So very happy, very tired.”

“I’ve just been putting a lot of work at final tables and two tables left, the game is very different than playing for chips or early in the tournament. So I’m very excited to be able to not just like study some stuff to review after the fact, but be able to think through spots myself. And I have a really good team behind me to help me for the next month or so. So we’re ecstatic. We’re cooking.”

Even outside of his podcast appearances and this deep run, Tice has been sitting in the poker spotlight thanks to a high-profile prop bet that pits him against fellow young gun Jeremy Becker in a potentially costly WSOP crossbook. Undoubtedly, no matter what happens at the SHRPS final table, Tice is going to be headed into the crossbook bet with a boost not just to his bankroll, but his confidence as well.

End of Day 1 chips – 182,500 End of Day 2 chips – 1,590,000 End of Day 3 chips – 5,250,000 (5th in chips)

Alex Queen – 13,450,000

Home Country: United States Resides: Bethlehem, PA Lifetime Live Tournament Earnings: $2,541,170 Biggest Lifetime Cash: $613,063 – 1st, 2024 Borgata Winter Poker Open Championship Other Prominent Scores: $355,535 – 1st, 2010 Borgata Spring Poker Open Championship, $111,774 – 1st, 2011 Borgata Deep Stack Double Play Open

East Coast poker pro Alex Queen may not yet be as well known in poker as some of his fellow final table mates, but he’s more than made a reputation for himself as a crusher. With more than $2.5 million in earnings, Queen has more than 15 years of experience and a résumé littered with Borgata titles and big-time cashes.

He says that although he’d transitioned more to cash in recent years, after a career-high $600K score to kick off the year, he was ready to put the time back into tournaments.

“I haven’t been to Florida tournaments since before COVID,” he said. “I kind of wasn’t really playing tournaments much anymore. But when the heater calls, you answer the phone, right? And just yeah, feel like I can see the matrix. It’s all locked in and ready to go.“

Queen just may be following in the footsteps of a fellow Borgata Winter Poker Open champion. In 2023, reigning WPT Player of the Year Bin Weng took down a major event at Borgata in January, and then went on to win this very tournament. Now, Queen acknowledges he may be on a similar path.

“Well, most of my days is preparing to be like Bin Weng. So this would actually fall right in line of doing that exact thing.”

End of Day 1 chips – 231,500 End of Day 2 chips – 330,000 End of Day 3 chips – 2,475,000

Jesse Lonis – 12,350,000

Home Country: United States Resides: Las Vegas, NV Lifetime Live Tournament Earnings: $8,237,765 Biggest Lifetime Cash: $2,303,017 – 1st, 2023 WSOP $50,000 PLO High Roller Other Prominent Scores: $404,267 – 3rd, 2024 Lucky Heart Poker Open Championship, $367,400 – 1st, PokerStars PCA $10K Warm-Up, $270,000 – 1st WPT World Championship $10,500 PLO

If you have yet to hear about Jesse Lonis – where have you been? Over the past two years, Lonis’ rapid rise in the worldwide tournament scene has been nothing short of incredible. Since the start of 2023, Lonis has been on the grind playing everything everywhere – and winning. We called him “The Busiest Man in Poker” in 2022 , we chronicled his continued sun run in 2023 , and even talked to him just last month about what sets him apart from everyone else in poker .

It’s not hyperbole to call Lonis a modern poker superstar and probably not a stretch to call him the most dangerous player at the table. After all, he wasn’t given the nickname “American Gangster” at Triton Jeju for nothing. He has two WSOP bracelets, two WSOP Circuit rings, a PCA High Roller title, a PokerGO USPO title, and now he’s in line to add to his resume with his first shot at a WPT title.

In the meantime, Lonis has something else monumental taking place as in between now and the time he’ll play at the SHRPS final table, the 28-year-old is set to be married.

“I have a lot to look forward to this month you know, like, I feel like I live in a dream sometimes. I’m very blessed obviously because everything, and I know it’s not easy doing this, and it just seems like I’m very fortunate in every aspect of life right now.”

End of Day 1 chips – 143,500 End of Day 2 chips – 685,000 End of Day 3 chips – 2,475,000

Aaron Kupin – 4,925,000

Home Country: United States Resides: Miami, FL Lifetime Live Tournament Earnings: $628,922 Biggest Lifetime Cash: $60,040 – 7th, 2021 World Series of Poker $10K PLO8 Other Prominent Scores: $50,057 – 11th, 2022 World Series of Poker $10K NLHE 6-Handed Championship

No matter what happens at the final table, it’s going to be a breakthrough score for the short-stacked Aaron Kupin . Kupin has really been turning up the heat on his poker career over the past 18 months including a prolific 2023 World Series of Poker that included 16 cashes. Earlier this year, he hopped into the PokerGO Studio for the first time and added a couple of results during the 2024 PGT Mixed Games Festival.

With roughly 25 big blinds in his stack and roughly 7 years of live experience at age 28, you simply can’t count the well-rounded Kupin out from finding a way to climb back up the chip counts. Just look at his escalating day-over-day chip count, finishing Day 1 with well less than a starting stack and then going on a tear to soar up the chip counts.

He’ll have his work cut out for him, considering his chip position and competition, but Kupin felt like the playdown to the final table went as well as it could have.

“From nine to six, I really don’t even think I played one hand,” Kupin said. “I know I tried to three-bet Landon a little light, and he shoved it in my face. And that was really the only action I got. But again, you can’t really complain when it goes as smoothly as it did. You know, when you’re a medium stack, all you really want is for the short stacks to bust out and you get those page jumps. And that’s exactly what happened. And it happened really quickly. So I can’t complain. And you know, even though I’ll be like a big disadvantage compared to the five much bigger stacks, you know, anything can happen.”

At worst, if Kupin busts out in 6th, the $176,000 payday will nearly triple his previous high score. He has a shot at climbing over $1 million in career live earnings (3rd or better) and, in any case, it’s a new benchmark for the latest chapter in his career.

End of Day 1 chips – 17,500 End of Day 2 chips – 420,000 End of Day 3 chips – 5,250,000 (6th in chips)

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