Coverage from this year’s Main Event of the World Series of Poker begins tomorrow night at 8pm EST on ESPN. The main event episodes will run until October 9th (when the final table will air) and then the $50,000 HORSE event will be shown the following two weeks.
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Flashback: Crazy Hand from ‘05 WSOP
Posted in Live Poker, TV, Tournaments, WSOP on Aug 18th, 2007
I was watching the 2005 WSOP Main Event the other night and re-lived this crazy hand…
High Stakes Golf Tournament Begins Today
Posted in Cash, Golf, High Stakes, TV on Aug 14th, 2007
9 Poker players will begin play today in the inaugural Doyle Brunson and Dewey Tomko Invitational. There will be two events with the first starting today being a three-person scramble with three teams of three competing for a $9 million prize pool. The teams are:
Doyle Brunson/Dewey Tomko/Vince Van Patten
Erick Lindgren/Daniel Negreanu/Josh Arieh
Russ Hamilton/Phil Hellmuth/Bill Walters
The [...]
Bellande on the Next Survivor
Posted in TV on Aug 6th, 2007
Professional poker player Jean-Robert Bellande will be one of the contestants on the next Survivor, which will take place in China. Bellande, who is without a poker sponsorship deal, will instantly command a lot of attention and offers once the show airs and has a lot to gain from competing on the show besides the [...]
WSOP TV Coverage Begins Tonight
Posted in TV, Tournaments, WSOP on Jul 10th, 2007
As the $10,000 WSOP Main Event is well underway, television coverage of the smaller events begins tonight on ESPN starting at 8pm. From 8pm to 9pm the final table of Event #1 the World Championship of Mix Hold’em (Limit/No-Limit) will be shown and from 9pm-10pm the final table of Event #3 $1,500 No-Limit Hold’em will [...]
Funny NBC Heads Up Hand
Posted in Heads Up, Pro Circuit, TV on May 18th, 2007
Sorry for lack of updates have been busy but should get back to updating more regularly now..
Below is a video from the NBC National Heads Up Championship in which both players have a brain freeze of sorts..Chad Brown probably could have doubled up if he bet the river but for some reason checked the nuts..
“Umm…Hello? [...]
Mortensen Wins WPT Championship
Posted in High Stakes, Pro Circuit, TV, Tournaments, WPT on May 1st, 2007
Carlos Mortensen won the Season Five WPT Championship and the $3,970,415 prize. It was Carlos’ second WPT win to go along with his WSOP Main Event Championship, further establishing himself as one of the best ever to play.
WPT Championship Final Table Set
Posted in TV, Tournaments, WPT on Apr 27th, 2007
The final table for the $25,000 buy-in WPT Championship and the $3,970,415 first prize is set and will begin tonight. Former WSOP and WPT Champion Carlos Mortensen will enter the final 6, 2nd in chips with 6,501,000. He’ll be chasing the chip leader Paul Lee, who came out of nowhere to win Event Number #2 [...]
World Poker Tour to Move to GSN
Posted in Pro Circuit, TV, Tournaments, WPT on Apr 6th, 2007
World Poker Tour broadcasts will be joining the popular cash game show High Stakes Poker beginning next season. GSN has agreed to pay $300,000 an episode and has the option of picking up the WPT for two more seasons if it chooses to. It will premiere on GSN in January 2008. The move is a [...]
Tilly shocks Table
Posted in Poker After Dark, TV on Mar 25th, 2007
This is a hand from last week’s Poker After Dark that I just watched. In it Jennifer Tilly wins the absolute minimum in a hand when she has the second nuts…Phil Ivey and the other pros faces are priceless when she turns up her hand.
“I thought you had pocket kings”