The World Blackjack Tour is an original GSN

Game Show Network

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 program that premiered September 4, 2006. Broadcast from the Las Vegas Hilton

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, five players representing five different nations play 21 hands of blackjack

Blackjack

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 for a first prize of $10,000. The show is hosted by John Fugelsang

John Fugelsang

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 and Ben Mezrich

Ben Mezrich

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. In the course of the debut broadcast the hosts announced plans to take the World Blackjack Tour to casinos around the globe.

Results

Position	Player	Representing	Winnings
1	Sergio Segura	Mexico Mexico The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federal constitutional republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of...	$10,000
2	Henry Tran	Canada Canada Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...	$5,000
3	Rena Sines	Greece Greece Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , and historically Hellas or the Republic of Greece in English, is a country in southeastern Europe....	$2,000
4	Kami Lis	Poland Poland Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...	$0
5	Ken Einiger	United States United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...	$0