When Van Patten and Sexton were hired as the faces of the WPT, the game of poker still hadn't gone mainstream. 'I don't know exactly where I'll go with the commentating and hosting down the road and all that, but I just love the game and the World Poker Tour, and am excited that it grew like this.' 'I will always love poker,' Van Patten, 64, told PokerNews during a Steve Aoki home game event last week. Sexton, who in 2017 left the WPT broadcast booth after 15 seasons to return to his roots at partypoker, passed away in 2020., but Van Patten is still commentating on WPT events, and he has no plans to retire any time soon. Together the dynamic duo helped put poker on the map at least a TV audiences were concerned. In 2002, Lipscomb hired poker pros Mike Sexton and Vince Van Patten, a tennis star and the son of actor Dick Van Patten, who hosted the World Series of Poker (WSOP) on ESPN from 1993-1995, to offer commentary. Two decades later and the WPT is still thriving and remains a fixture in the poker community. Twenty years ago, television producer Steve Lipscomb introduced to the American audience a poker tournament show called the World Poker Tour (WPT).

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