Poker on TV
On Friday, the lawsuit over the rights to the short-lived NBC poker franchise “Face the Ace” was scheduled to be filed in Federal Court in Las Vegas. Casino security officer Brandon McSmith has alleged ownership to the concept behind the Full Tilt Poker-backed game show. In March, the Eighth District Court in Nevada dismissed the… Read more »
Wednesday night may have marked the final installment of the UB.com sponsored poker news program “Poker2Nite.” UB.com officials declined to renew the show for a third season, according to show co-host Scott Huff. The Twitterverse was buzzing on Thursday morning just hours after the “Poker2Nite” Season 2 finale aired on Versus. Huff Tweeted during the… Read more »
The Season 2 finale of the UB.com sponsored poker news show “Poker2Nite” aired on Wednesday. Former “Amazing Race” contestant Maria Ho challenged Absolute Poker pro Trishelle Cannatella for the series’ “On the Clock” trophy. First up was discussion of the recently completed World Poker Tour (WPT) Grand Prix de Paris, which saw World Series of… Read more »
Monday night featured the final action from the PokerStars North American Poker Tour (NAPT) on ESPN2. This time, the High Roller event at the 2010 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure took center stage. The $25,000 buy-in poker tournament, which played out in January, featured German Tobias Reinkemeier holding the chip lead entering the final table. The broadcast… Read more »
On Sunday, the quarterfinals of the National Heads-Up Poker Championship aired on NBC. Of the eight players left standing, four were former World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event champions. The poker tournament wraps up this Sunday, May 23rd, on NBC. In the first hour of coverage, 2008 WSOP Main Event champion Peter Eastgate faced… Read more »
In May, the “Bernard Lee Poker Show,” which airs on 1120AM in Boston, 970AM in Worcester, and 1390AM in Cape Cod, will celebrate its third anniversary by welcoming several high-profile players. The show can be heard from 6:00pm to 7:00pm ET on Tuesdays and is simulcast on RoundersRadio. Lee is a sponsored pro of Foxwoods… Read more »
On Wednesday night’s installment of the popular UB.com sponsored poker news show “Poker2Nite,” Victory Poker pro and 2007 Playboy Playmate of the Year Sara Underwood broke down her future in the industry. Kicking off the episode was a recap of last week’s World Series of Poker (WSOP) media conference call, which revealed that Red Bull… Read more »
The highly anticipated “PokerStars Big Game” began taping last week and is set to air across the United States beginning on Monday, June 14th. The one-hour show will air five nights a week on FOX affiliates and feature five of the biggest high-stakes poker players in the world and one PokerStars qualifier competing against each… Read more »
Monday night featured the final tables of the PokerStars North American Poker Tour (NAPT) Mohegan Sun High-Roller Bounty Shootout and Main Event on ESPN2. The latter awarded a $350,000 winner take all prize. Each player had a $5,000 bounty on his back in the Shootout. At the end of the tournament, the player who recorded… Read more »
The Season 6 finale of the cash game franchise “High Stakes Poker” aired on Sunday night, with Doyle Brunson’s streak of 15 straight wins in televised cash game sessions on the line. New episodes aired on Sundays at 8:00pm ET on GSN. Lex Veldhuis, stuck $100,000, rejoined the table, while cash game pro Eli Elezra… Read more »
Sunday’s broadcast of the National Heads-Up Poker Championship on NBC featured a clash of the titans, as newly minted Full Tilt Poker pro Annette “Annette_15” Obrestad squared off against DoylesRoom namesake Doyle Brunson. The Sweet 16 of the National Heads-Up Poker Championship included seven former World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event winners. Craig Hummer… Read more »
Wednesday’s episode of the UB.com sponsored poker news program “Poker2Nite” featured Full Tilt Poker pro and Deep Stacks University instructor Mike Matusow threatening to run naked down the Las Vegas Strip. “Poker2Nite” airs on Versus at 11:00pm ET each week. The show began with the headlines of the week, including Nicolas Chouity winning the European… Read more »
UB.com pro Phil Hellmuth has won 11 World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelets, including the coveted Main Event title. Now, you can add a win in the “Good Morning America” Poker Showdown to his list of accolades. The segment aired on Wednesday morning. As part of “Living the Dream” week on “Good Morning America,” each… Read more »
On Monday, the PokerStars North American Poker Tour (NAPT) Mohegan Sun High-Roller Bounty Shootout took center stage on ESPN2. The first round of action was shown, with table winners receiving up to $60,000. In addition, every entrant had a $5,000 bounty on his head. The contestant who racks up the most number of bounties receives… Read more »
On Sunday’s episode of the GSN cash game franchise “High Stakes Poker,” Mike Matusow, who had largely played tight throughout the season, folded K-Q suited in the small blind after a standard pre-flop raise and promptly left the table. It was a culmination of a rocky appearance on “High Stakes Poker” for Matusow, who folded… Read more »
On Wednesday, May 5th at 8:00am ET, UB.com pro and Poker News Daily Guest Columnist Annie Duke will mentor former political advisor George Stephanopoulos on the ABC franchise “Good Morning America.” The episode will air as part of sweeps week, during which “Good Morning America” personalities will cross items off their bucket lists. Stephanopoulos will… Read more »
Tiltboy Rafe Furst was the feature guest on Wednesday’s episode of the UB.com sponsored poker news show “Poker2Nite,” which airs weekly on Versus at 11:00pm ET. Furst is the founder of “Put a Bad Beat on Cancer.” The show opened with a recap of the World Poker Tour (WPT) Championship, which wrapped up last weekend… Read more »
This week on the longstanding NBC franchise “Poker After Dark,” three of the gabbiest players in the game will take to the felts. None, however, can outtalk two-time World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelet winner David Grey. Grey chatted nearly non-stop through the first 30 minutes of the hour-long kickoff episode of “He Said, She… Read more »
CardPlayer TV debuted its new weekly half-hour program, “Under the Gun,” on Monday, featuring host Jon “pokertrip” Friedberg. Sponsored by the CEREUS Network’s UB.com, the first episode was filmed on location at the Bellagio in Las Vegas, as Friedberg talked to two of online poker’s best tournament players, Sorel “Imper1um” Mizzi and Eric “basebaldy” Baldwin.… Read more »
On Monday night, the final tables of the PokerStars North American Poker Tour (NAPT) Venetian High Roller Bounty Shootout and Main Event aired on ESPN2. The latter included a blowup of epic proportions. The first hour of coverage featured the seven-handed final table of the Bounty Shootout. ESPN commentator Lon McEachern previewed the field: “A… Read more »
A clash of the titans took center stage on Sunday’s NBC coverage of the 2010 National Heads-Up Poker Championship, as industry veterans Phil Hellmuth and Howard Lederer met in a match for the ages. The first hour of coverage featured opening round action from the Hearts bracket with Hellmuth and Lederer taking center stage. Hellmuth’s… Read more »
In Sunday’s episode of the GSN cash game series “High Stakes Poker,” two major pots featured Mike Matusow tangling with Daniel Negreanu. Matusow took down both, furthering Negreanu’s struggles on the series. The episode began with Eli Elezra up nearly $300,000 as the table’s big winner. Negreanu was active early, attempting a squeeze play holding… Read more »
Former “Celebrity Poker Showdown” host Kevin Pollak and “Inglourious Basterds” star Samm Levine joined this week’s episode of the UB.com sponsored poker news program “Poker2Nite.” The show hit television airwaves following the Vancouver Canucks’ 6-4 win at Los Angeles in the NHL playoffs on Wednesday. “Poker2Nite” co-host Joe Sebok was feeling under the weather, so… Read more »
This week, the NBC franchise “Poker After Dark” is airing “My Favorite Pro.” The unique winner-take-all sit and go format pits Chris Ferguson and Phil Hellmuth against a quartet of qualifiers. Ferguson lasted all of one episode. Each player began with 20,000 in chips and blinds of 100-200. Premium pocket pairs were the name of… Read more »
On Sunday night’s episode of the GSN cash game franchise “High Stakes Poker,” Phil Ivey once again walked away from the table. This time, Phil “OMGClayAiken” Galfond took his place and quickly tangled with “High Stakes Poker” legend Eli Elezra. Early on, Team PokerStars Pro member Bertrand “Elky” Grospellier led out for $11,000 on a… Read more »
