Opening its fifth year educating and cultivating poker players all over the U.S, the World Poker Tour Boot Camp has announced that it will include additional stops this year, breaking its own tradition of teaching Boot Camps exclusively at casino properties.

"Since the beginning, we've exclusively been in Las Vegas, Foxwoods, Atlantic City, Gulfport and other casino towns. We're now bringing our Boot Camps to our clients rather than making our clients come to us. I get emails from past students daily who are making serious income from poker since taking their Boot Camps. A number of them have left their jobs and become professional poker players and are now living their dream." explained WPT Boot Camp Founder, Ron Rubens.

With the new 2009 WPT Boot Camp schedule, players will have the opportunity to participate in additional camps in New York, Chicago, San Jose, Dallas and Orlando, along with typical stops in Las Vegas and Atlantic City. The Camps offer players a series of instructional and practical sessions, tournaments and laboratories designed to teach players how to become a successful poker player. The Boot Camps cover topics such as cash games and tournaments, live and online poker, Heads Up strategy, poker tells, and more. They are taught in hands-on interactive workshops by professional poker players selected for their success in poker, ability to teach, desire to share, and enthusiasm for the game.

Created in 2004, the WPT Boot Camp has organized over 130 Boot Camps and trained over 6,000 alumni. The most popular and most frequently offered Boot Camps are the two-day Tournament camps. The WPT Boot Camp also offers a two-day Cash strategy camp, a Three Day Champions Event as well as an annual week-long Caribbean camp where over $225,000 in prizes and entry fees are awarded to the participants.