Poker on TV
The second episode of "High Stakes Poker" Season 5 hit the airwaves on Sunday night. Among the highlights of the popular cash game show was a $318,000 pot between WSOP Main Event Champion Peter Eastgate and Ilari "Ziigmund" Sahamies. Read more »
Sunday night marked the second episode of Season 2 of NBC's "Celebrity Apprentice." Last week in the season premiere, Annie Duke rubbed some of her teammates the wrong way with her direct nature. Tonight's episode featured a showdown between the WSOP bracelet winner and talk show host Joan Rivers. Read more »
On Sunday night, the second season of NBC's "Celebrity Apprentice" debuted. Poker player Annie Duke, a contestant on the show, received staunch criticism from Project Manager Joan Rivers, Claudia Jordan, Khloe Kardashian, and Brande Roderick. Duke revealed her reaction to Poker News Daily. Read more »
Season 5 of GSN's "High Stakes Poker" kicked off on Sunday night. The $200,000 buy-in cash game was filmed at the Golden Nugget in Downtown Las Vegas last December. A total of 13 episodes will air on Sundays, which is dubbed "Poker Night" by GSN. Read more »
The second season of NBC's "Celebrity Apprentice" kicked off on Sunday night. Last year's running of the show raised over $1 million for charity. This year, 16 contestants are divided into two teams, men versus women. Among them is Poker News Daily columnist and WSOP bracelet winner Annie Duke. Read more »
This Sunday, March 1st, at 9:00pm Eastern Time, the fifth season of "High Stakes Poker" will debut on GSN, the Network for Games. The fifth installment has been a longtime coming and perhaps no one is looking forward to it more than its host, A.J. Benza. Read more »
On March 1st, a familiar face will hit the airwaves in primetime. Ultimate Bet pro and Poker News Daily Guest Columnist Annie Duke will appear on the second installment of "The Celebrity Apprentice," joining the 16 member star-studded cast. Contestants on the NBC reality series compete for money for charities of their choice. Read more »
The beginning of 2009 has been a busy one for fans of poker on television. Last Sunday, the seventh season of the World Poker Tour kicked off on Fox Sports Net. Recently, the fifth season of "Poker After Dark" began airing on NBC. Poker enthusiasts can mark their calendars for Monday, January 12th, the date of the first of seven new episodes of the Best Damn Poker Show. Read more »
NBC's Poker After Dark has become synonymous with high-stakes cash games and six-man tournaments featuring World Poker Tour winners, World Series of Poker bracelet holders, and industry staples. The show airs as late as 2:20am Eastern Time in some markets and is currently entering its fifth season. Read more »
On Monday, the fifth season of NBC's "Poker After Dark" kicked off. The show featured the theme "Close But No Cigar" and included players who had made the final table of the World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event, but had yet to score their first championship in poker's biggest tournament. Read more »
On Monday, December 29th, the fifth season of NBC's "Poker After Dark" will kick off. The very first episode is called "Close But No Cigar" and will play host to those who have reached past World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event final tables, but have yet to take down a title. Read more »
Poker News Daily has learned that the fifth season of GSN show High Stakes Poker will debut on Sunday, March 1st. In fact, Sunday has been dubbed "Poker Night" on GSN, and is when the network will air its marquee cash game program. No official time slot has been given. Read more »
The fifth season of popular televised cash game High Stakes Poker will film for three days beginning on December 19th at the Golden Nugget. The show boasts a $200,000 minimum buy-in and among those in attendance will be 2008 WSOP Main Event Champion Peter Eastgate. Read more »
Poker News Daily has learned that the fifth season of the popular cash game television series "High Stakes Poker" will be filmed at the Golden Nugget in Las Vegas from December 19th to 21st. The minimum buy-in will be $200,000 and the show will once again air on cable station GSN. Read more »
Recently, cable station GSN announced that it had decided to move poker-related programming to Sunday nights. The network is the home of popular cash game show "High Stakes Poker" and holds the rights to the sixth season of the World Poker Tour. Read more »
NBC's Poker After Dark will return to a cash game format this week for just the second time in the series' four seasons. Read more »
At the Ultimate Bet Aruba Poker Classic over the weekend, it was revealed that poker pro Annie Duke will appear on the second celebrity installment of NBC's "The Apprentice." She'll join a cast that has been rumored to include singer Brian McKnight, former NBA star Dennis Rodman, and talk show host Joan Rivers. Read more »
