Poker on TV
Darvin Moon, the chip leader of the 2009 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event entering the final table in November, joined the ESPN.com poker show "Inside Deal." Also appearing was Absolute Poker pro Lacey Jones. Read more »
The National Football League (NFL) game between the Indianapolis Colts and Arizona Cardinals garnered an 8.2 rating on Sunday night during the 8:00pm ET hour to lead all programs. The CBS reality series Amazing Race, which features poker pros Tiffany Michelle and Maria Ho, premiered at 7.1. Read more »
Poker pros Tiffany Michelle and Maria Ho were spared elimination on the premiere of the CBS reality show Amazing Race, which is entering its 15th season. Michelle and Ho arrived at the first pit stop in last place. Read more »
On Saturday afternoon, CBS Sports aired the second of two episodes of the PokerStars.net Ante Up for Africa tournament that played out during the European Poker Tour (EPT) Monte Carlo festivities. Read more »
On this week's installment of the G4 online poker reality show "2 Months, $2 Million," the cast opened boot camp, taking on four students for $7,500 each. In the end, the group earned $106,000 for the week. The show airs on Wednesdays at 8:00pm ET. Read more »
Day 4 unfolded in front of ESPN cameras at the 2009 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event. November Nine member Phil Ivey presided over the feature table, while a pair of former Main Event champions headlined Table Two. Read more »
This week, the ESPN.com poker program "Inside Deal" welcomed new Ultimate Bet pro and media consultant Joe Sebok. Regular host Bernard Lee was absent, as he was competing in the World Poker Tour's (WPT) Borgata Poker Open. Read more »
While there is poker on television and different outlets that offer podcasts, currently there isn't a one that is dedicated to poker 24/7. A Canadian entertainment company is looking to change that with the rollout of an internet television station. Read more »
For the next two weekends, CBS will air the PokerStars Ante Up for Africa Monte Carlo tournament. The show will air on Saturday, September 19th from 1:30pm to 2:30pm ET and on Saturday, September 26th from 2:00pm to 3:00pm ET. Read more »
Full Tilt Poker's Million Dollar Cash Game featured a $1.1 million pot during its fourth season, which will air on Sky Sports in the United Kingdom in January. The season includes commentary from poker pro Robert Williamson III. Read more »
It's nearly back to square one for the cast of the G4 online poker show "2 Months, $2 Million." This week's episode, which was the first to air on a Wednesday night, saw Brian Roberts drop $111,000, essentially pushing the team back to even overall. Read more »
Fans of televised poker will be relieved to hear that the popular program "High Stakes Poker" will be returning to GSN in early 2010. Poker News Daily has learned that the show will be filming new episodes in November that will begin airing in February of next year. Read more »
Day 3 of the 2009 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event hit television airwaves on ESPN on Tuesday night, with two hours of coverage dedicated to the festivities. Seated at the feature table were two Aussies, Joe Hachem and Jeffrey Lisandro. Read more »
Laura Lane returned from vacation to bring the poker community its seventh installment of ESPN.com's "Inside Deal." This week, Lane and co-host Bernard Lee welcomed Daniel Negreanu and Michael Binger. Read more »
With Day 3 of the 2009 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event set to kick off on Tuesday night on ESPN, network officials have announced that ratings for the September 8th broadcast were the highest of the 2009 season. Read more »
Saturday’s episode of “Face the Ace” on NBC featured a memorable contestant named Adam Ehrlich who was far and away the most talkative player in the show’s three episodes. Ehrlich, a 33-year old stock trader from Philadelphia, was the only player featured on the episode as he battled through matches with Full Tilt Pros Chris… Read more »
After two months of speculation, CBS has finally confirmed what the poker world has suspected all along: poker pros Tiffany Michelle and Maria Ho will be competing together as a team on the upcoming season of the competition reality show "The Amazing Race." Read more »
After four weeks in its Sunday 9PM time slot, the G4 reality show "Two Months, Two Million" will be changing nights, moving to Wednesdays at 8PM for the remainder of its ten episode season. There will be no new episode on Sunday and the network will instead air a two hour marathon of the first four episodes from 9PM-11PM ET. Read more »
After a month-long absence from the airwaves, the NBC game show "Face the Ace" will return to the networks line-up this Saturday. Several changes are in store for the program, which struggled in the ratings when it first debuted back in August. Read more »
Last night's episodes of the World Series of Poker (WSOP) on ESPN spotlighted the two most recognizable Phils in poker: Phil Hellmuth and November Nine member Phil Ivey. Hellmuth was seated at the feature table for the coverage of Day 2B while the secondary feature table boasted a strong line up of Michael "The Grinder" Mizrachi and PokerStars Pros Dennis Phillips and Maria "Maridu" Mayrinck. Read more »
On the latest episode of ESPN.com's Inside Deal, Absolute Poker Pro Mark Seif joined Andrew Feldman and Bernard Lee in the Bristol studio to talk about the latest poker news, balancing poker and a family life and even got into some details about the Absolute and Ultimate Bet poker scandals. Read more »
After defeating a rival poker house in a veritable Olympics of shenanigans last week, the cast of the G4 reality show "2 Months, 2 Million" set their sites on two new targets: Full Tilt Pros David Benyamine and Erica Schoenberg. The quartet also got back to putting in time on the virtual felt, adding $49,000 to their previous $114,000 in winnings and bringing their total profits up to $163,000. Read more »
Six weeks of World Series of Poker (WSOP) coverage have broadcast on ESPN and the dip in ratings the cable sports network saw with the airing of the preliminary events does not appear to be carrying over to the all-important Main Event coverage. ESPN is reporting gains in all categories and demographics from this time last year, most importantly in the coveted 18-49 year old male audience. Read more »
The first of two Day 2s in the 2009 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event took center stage on Tuesday night on ESPN. 2004 champion Greg Raymer and "Seinfeld" actor Jason Alexander headlined the feature table. Read more »
To say that some of the televised poker offerings that have cropped up in the years since Chris Moneymaker won the World Series of Poker have been a bit lackluster would be putting it nicely. A rash of poker content has found its way onto just about every channel from Bravo to ESPN to NBC to BET and many of those programs bear a striking resemblance to one another: Take a six player Sit & Go, populate it with interesting or famous characters and let the all-ins commence. Read more »
