Between 1999 and 2002, sixth season of the very successful Poker series Late Night Poker was produced for a British broadcasting channel. Each series consists of 7 heats, semi-final and final table with 8 players. The specialty of the series was the special use of the under-table cameras. Recently, an all-amateur tournament was published under the name Late Night Poker Ace.

The WSOP Tournament of Champions was established in 2004, but set on hold in the year 2006. The event is a complete freeroll poker even. Only the most famous poker players of the world are invited to this event. In the first year, only the poker player who won the tournament received some prize money, all other players returned home with empty hands. This rule was changed later. Recently, the top players of the event receive awards.

The Aussie Millions is the most important and the most famous poker tournament in Australia. It was established in the year 1997. Since then it has a growing number of participants. In the last years, many very famous poker players are among the participants. The participants are multicultural, over half of the players are from overseas. The whole championship consists of 19 single events.

Since 2000, one of the major European poker tournaments is the Poker Million. The first game was held at the Isle of Man. The special charm of the event is the competition of sponsored professionals against winners of certain online poker tournaments. It was an incredible success since more than 30 millions TV viewers watched the event. The snooker-player Jimmy White managed to win the second tournament in 2003.
One of the rare events that are not hosted in Las Vegas is the US Poker Championship at the Trump Taj Mahal Casino in Atlantic City which was established in 1996. The main event is a $10,000 no-limit Texas Hold’Em poker tournament.