The World Poker Tour launch social casino PlayWPT; welcome the players to provide feedback at the forthcoming Borgata Poker Open, and Pat Lyons wins WPT Legends of Poker.

The World Poker Tour (WPT) has decided to follow the crowd and move into the casino business. In their first joint venture with owners OurGame International Holdings Ltd., the WPT has created a new social gambling platform. PlayWPT is now available on desktop and Facebook worldwide.

One of the difficulties with play money sites, especially in poker, is the legitimacy of the action. To combat this, the WPT has created a more competitive environment by ‘strategically limiting’ the number of play money chips in action.

At the tail end of the week I wrote about the partnership between PokerStars and Seven Deuce Gaming and the launch of Casino Rush. That collaboration resulted in poker themed slots, but the WPT have taken a different tact by creating slots with a prehistoric dinosaur theme.