“Live at the Bike” To Return on April 20

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Like most things during the COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting shutdowns, poker has suffered tremendously over the past year. Nowhere is this more evident than in the California poker rooms, which have been shut down for over a year now. That has begun to change, however, and with it, a venerable institution – The Bicycle… Read more »

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Handicapping the Phil Hellmuth/Daniel Negreanu Heads Up Battle

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After plenty of sniping between the duo, it appears that there will be a “heads up for rollz” battle between two of poker’s most…engaging…personalities. 15-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner Phil Hellmuth and fellow Poker Hall of Famer Daniel Negreanu will step to the felt against each other, with the festivities to be broadcast… Read more »

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‘High Stakes Poker’ Makes Grand Return on PokerGO

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It’s like the poker boom all over again. “High Stakes Poker” has returned. The once immensely popular poker television show has been resurrected by Poker Central and had its first new episode on the PokerGO streaming service Wednesday night. Fans of the show will also be thrilled to know that both Gabe Kaplan and AJ… Read more »

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World Poker Tour Announces New Broadcast Deal with Theta.tv

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Finding yet another way to get their product to the viewers, a new broadcasting outlet has announced a deal with the World Poker Tour that will get a great deal of their product out through internet, mobile and smart TV outlets. Theta Labs, through their “always on” 24/7 live poker channel on THETA.tv, is looking… Read more »

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Poker Central Acquires High Stakes Poker

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On Tuesday, Poker Central announced that it has acquired the High Stakes Poker brand and assets. Poker Central’s subscription streaming service, PokerGO, will start hosting episodes of the program “in the coming months.” Future distribution of High Stakes Poker might include broadcast and other streaming services. “High Stakes Poker was a remarkable poker program. With… Read more »

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Poker Central Renews Key Partnerships

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Poker Central has renewed partnerships with both 888Poker and the NBC Sports Group, announcing the deals in two separate press releases in the past week. Poker Central, having struggled to establish itself as a true 24/7 poker television network, has successfully revamped itself as an online digital video subscription service for poker. It surprised the… Read more »

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More New Programming Emanates from PokerGO

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When it was an actual cable channel that was searching for outlets, the one huge criticism of Poker Central was that they had no original programming. Other than “made for television” tournaments that they had produced, they had exactly zip in the line of programming for the network itself. That’s all changed now that they’re… Read more »

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Nick Schulman Takes First Poker Masters Event at ARIA

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Poker professional Nick Schulman earned the second biggest cash of his career on Thursday night, winning the inaugural event of the 2017 Poker Masters at ARIA in Las Vegas. With the ground unbroken on a series like this, many of the viewers on the rail, on the streaming feed from PokerGO and even the competitors… Read more »

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World Poker Tour to Stream Tournaments over PokerGO

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In an effort to keep up with the ever-changing times, the World Poker Tour has made the decision to live stream all its Main Tour championship events over PokerGO, the subscription streaming service from the former Poker Central. “The World Poker Tour delivers the thrilling and action-packed poker programming our audience loves,” said Joe Kakaty,… Read more »

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Poker Central to Resurrect “Poker After Dark”

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Poker Central has announced that it will be bringing back one of the most popular poker television shows, “Poker After Dark.” It will be broadcast live only on Poker Central’s PokerGO subscription service beginning Monday, August 7th. “PokerGO’s vast content library will now include the return of one of the most beloved poker shows in… Read more »

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Broadcast Schedule Announced for WSOP Championship Event

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It doesn’t seem like six weeks has gone that quickly, but the poker world is on the precipice of arguably its greatest event. The World Series of Poker’s $10,000 World Championship Event – also known as the “Main Event” – will begin on Saturday. For the first time in the history of poker’s premiere tournament,… Read more »

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ESPN Releases WSOP Broadcast Schedule

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A week from today marks the beginning of ESPN’s fall coverage of the 2016 World Series of Poker; within the past week, the “Worldwide Leader” released the complete schedule for the weekly broadcasts. Oh, how times have changed. Whereas a decade ago, we might have seen a number of preliminary events in addition to the… Read more »

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Phil Hellmuth to Be First Topic of Poker Central’s Pokerography

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While it has caught some flak for not being the true “television network” that was probably initially planned, Poker Central has steamed along with its near 24/7 reruns of tournament and “made for television” poker for over two weeks now. On Sunday, one of the first programs made especially for Poker Central will hit the… Read more »

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Poker Central Debut Less Than Exciting Over Streaming Networks Rather Than Actual Television

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After hyping their product as “the world’s only round-the-clock poker TELEVISION network” (emphasis by author), yesterday’s debut of Poker Central was rather disappointing as it became painfully apparent that the new “channel” is nothing more than a streaming outlet, falling far short of the requirement for a TELEVISION station or network. Visitors to the Poker… Read more »

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Poker Central Announces Programming Lineup

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After much hype, Poker Central, the world’s only round-the-clock poker television network, will make its debut on Thursday, October 1st. On Tuesday, it announced its inaugural programming lineup. Many of the shows, at least initially, will be pre-existing series that originally aired either in the U.S. or overseas, but Poker Central is developing original programming,… Read more »

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