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An award-winning producer/director of television and film Steven Lipscomb is the founder and CEO of the WPT Enterprises Inc.
Lipscomb has extensive experience filming professional poker. In 1999 he produced and directed "On the Inside of The World Series of Poker" for the Discovery channel. He also filmed the "2001 Tournament of Champions of Poker " before going on to create and executive produce "Cruisin' to a Million" for the Travel Channel a program showcasing a million-dollar poker tournament on a cruise ship in the Mexican Riviera.
Lipscomb has worked closely with such luminaries as Al Burton Norman Lear and Alvin Toffler to create successful films and television shows. His numerous credits include "Turn Ben Stein On " "Beyond Future Shock " and "Battle for the Minds."
Formerly an attorney with Gibson Dunn & Crutcher Lipscomb received his B.A. with honors from Dartmouth College where he was president of his class and his J.D. from the University of Chicago where he was a Greenberg Scholar. He sold his own attorney referral business to fund his first film. | 