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World Poker Tour hits India

LOS ANGELES, California -- (PRESS RELEASE) -- WPT Enterprises, Inc. (Nasdaq: WPTE) and ZEE Entertainment Enterprises Limited announced that the World Poker Tour® (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.

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