- Lansing will be making her final television appearance for the WPT on September 5 at the WPT Foundation Ladies’ Night Invitational.
- She will be replaced by PokerNews.com personality and current anchor of the new WPT Alpha8 Super-High Rolle* broadcasts on FOX Sports 1, Lynn Gilmartin.
- Lansing announced her departure on Twitter where she stated that while she is indeed leaving the show, she is not retiring from television.
The World Poker Tour announced that after three seasons in the anchor’s chair for the flagship WPT broadcast, Kimberly Lansing is stepping down from her position with the tour. She will be replaced by PokerNews.com personality and current anchor of the new WPT Alpha8 Super-High Roller broadcasts on FOX Sports 1, Lynn Gilmartin.
Lansing, who spent three season as anchor of the WPT weekly broadcasts, is hailed as the first female anchor of a major poker series. She will be making her final television appearance for the WPT on September 5 at the WPT Foundation Ladies’ Night Invitational.
Lansing, along with female poker pros Vanessa Rousso, Lily Kileto, Jessica Dawley and Liz Lieu will be playing to raise money for various women’s charities including Dr. Susan Love Research Foundation, Breast Cancer Awareness Association, Rape Abuse & Incest National Network (RAINN), We Advance, the National Council for Research on Women, and Domestic Violence Project of the Legal Aid Society of Palm Beach County. The event is set to be shown on the Fox Sports Network in 2014.
Gilmartin will be assuming the featured role starting with the very first televised event of Season VII which is the WPT Legends of Poker, currently being held at the Bicycle Casino in Bell Gardens, CA. Lansing announced her departure on Twitter where she stated that while she is indeed leaving the show, she is not retiring from television.
Here’s a classic clip of Lansing interviewing a new face on the scene, Tom Dwan:
