College Poker Tour Hopes Co-eds Will Push All In

Fledgling CPT wants to find the new "students of the game."

This week inaugural College Poker Tour will open it’s virtual doors and hope that some portion of the 17 million college students in the USA will log-on and play poker for school pride. Presented by All-In Magazine the fee-based, no-cash game will run qualifiers/competitions from March 26-May 26 where players will represent their school and, if they are good enough, can win their way to a live Las Vegas event.

According to All In, CPT has done their research and have found that universities all over the US have “poker clubs” including Notre Dame Duke, LSU, Michigan, UCLA, MIT, and Purdue some of which have upwards of 150 members.

Much like a community college term paper, the CPT website is lacking a lot of information.

From the looks of it (gleaned from the All In article), individuals pay $50 as a league fee and then play in a bunch of qualifier tournaments (we’ll call this the season). Then, if you produce results you move on to the online CPT National College Poker Championships (the playoffs). Finally, if things go really well for you, the CPT will fly you out to Vegas for the CPT live final table.

All in the name of school pride.

So, is this going to work? Well, they’ve got a catchy trailer (thanks to the “College Dropout” himself, Kanye West), a long term plan and weekly team and individual rankings. They are hoping to make poker a national collegiate sport but will players be ready to drop a “Grant” on a new play money site and can the CPT partner with these on-campus poker clubs?

Organizers and All In are going to give it the old college try.

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