Poker on TV
On Tuesday, Congressman Barney Frank (D-MA) appeared on “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.” Seated onstage alongside reality television icon Kim Kardashian, Frank discussed, among other topics, the recent success of HR 2267, the Internet Gambling Regulation, Consumer Protection, and Enforcement Act, in Committee. A lively debate with Leno ensued. Watch here. The portion of… Read more »
On Tuesday night, action from Day 2B of the 2010 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event aired on ESPN. Two one-hour episodes were devoted to the second Day 2 and the feature table included Dan Harrington and Jeff Shulman, who were seated next to each other. The former has recorded four WSOP Main Event… Read more »
Next Monday, September 6th, catch a marathon of “High Stakes Poker” on GSN. Once the Labor Day barbequing has finished and the relatives have left, it’ll be all poker after hours on the popular cable station. A total of eight hours of “High Stakes Poker” will air with episodes from the show’s recently completed sixth… Read more »
On Saturday night, the second round of regular season matches kicked off on the Full Tilt Doubles Poker Championship, which airs on GSN. Each of the 32 players in the field bought in for $50,000 and had already played out one match. In Match #5, which spanned the first 30 minutes of the one-hour GSN… Read more »
On Tuesday night, the World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event continued airing on ESPN. This time, Day 2A was highlighted and featured nine former Main Event champions gunning for a repeat performance. Embattled PokerStars pro Daniel Negreanu was seated at the feature table. On a board of 4-9-Q-A, Adam Fisher 3bet all-in with A-J… Read more »
Brand new episodes of the PokerStars-sponsored “Big Game” are airing this week on Fox. The high-stakes cash game series pits five poker sharks against a “Loose Cannon” online qualifier staked with $100,000. Each “Loose Cannon” plays 150 hands, with a $50,000 North American Poker Tour passport on the line plus whatever spoils they’ve earned from… Read more »
The Doubles Poker Championship rolled on over the weekend on GSN. Another two regular season matches were held beginning at 9:00pm ET on Saturday night and David Tuchman and Brandon Adams had the call. Full Tilt Poker sponsors the series. Each team received 50,000 in starting chips and the blinds began at 500/1,000. Every player… Read more »
On this week’s edition of the ESPN.com poker news program “Inside Deal,” UB.com pro Eric “basebaldy” Baldwin joined the set throughout the duration of the episode. Featured was discussion of Days 1C and 1D of the 2010 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event, which aired on Tuesday night on ESPN. Baldwin sported his trademark… Read more »
On Tuesday night at 9:00pm ET, coverage of Days 1C and 1D of the 2010 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event aired on cable station ESPN. The first hour of coverage was devoted to Day 1C and featured reigning Main Event champ Joe Cada and 11-time bracelet winner Phil Hellmuth. Eight former Main Event… Read more »
The PokerStars sponsored “Big Game” once again boasted new episodes this week. The series airs nightly on Fox and featured a highly entertaining Monday night episode in which PartyPoker pro Tony G dropped $177,000 and accepted a $100,000 loan from Daniel Negreanu. The “Big Game” has blinds of $200/$400, with Pot Limit action before the… Read more »
On Monday, MMA Week debuted on NBC’s “Poker After Dark.” The show, which airs at 2:05am ET nightly for one hour, pitted three staples of the MMA world against three poker pros. To start off Monday night’s installment, UFC’s Bruce Buffer gave a rousing introduction of his five opponents, complete with piped-in crowd noise and… Read more »
This past Friday, All In Entertainment LLC held a casting event for a new poker-based reality show centered around Fatty’s Poker Club, located in New York City. The program, “Fatty’s: Where Poker Gets REAL,” will follow the club’s owner, Mike “The Nose” Castaldo, and his band of regulars as they live their lives and play… Read more »
On Saturday night, the Full Tilt Poker Doubles Championship premiered on GSN, taking the place of the Aussie Millions, whose Main Event wrapped up last weekend. A $1 million first place prize is up for grabs in the Doubles Championship and 32 players coughed up $50,000 each to enter. The unique show was taped at… Read more »
On its one-year anniversary, the ESPN.com poker news program “Inside Deal” welcomed “The Prince of Poker,” 1998 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event champ Scotty Nguyen. In celebration, a special “Baby-O-Meter” ran in the corner of the screen, counting the number of times Nguyen dropped his trademark word. The rumored sale of the Rio… Read more »
On Tuesday night, the 2010 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event began airing on ESPN with a pair of one-hour episodes highlighting Days 1A and 1B. A stirring introduction by reigning Main Event champ Joe Cada touted the feature table as “the table where dreams come true.” The first one-hour episode covered Day 1A… Read more »
Six of poker’s most eligible bachelors took to the felts as part of Lonesome Shark week on the NBC franchise “Poker After Dark.” The series airs nightly on NBC at 2:05am ET and each player began with a stack of 20,000 in chips. The winner of the six-man sit and go will pocket $120,000, enough… Read more »
In 2011, actor Christian Slater will star in a movie entitled “Guns, Girls and Gambling” that is, in part, about a game of poker gone wrong. According to the Internet Movie Database, or IMDB, “The story throws Elvis impersonators, Indians, modern cowboys, a six-foot-tall blond assassin, a frat boy, a corrupt sheriff and a prostitute… Read more »
On Monday night, the PokerStars-powered “Big Game” returned to Fox with all new episodes. The nightly cash game program rivals GSN’s “High Stakes Poker” and features a “Loose Cannon” qualifier staked with $100,000. He or she can keep any amount made over $100,000. A total of $800,000 was spread across the table to open the… Read more »
On Saturday night, the stirring conclusion of the 2010 Aussie Millions Main Event aired on GSN. The broadcast, which is sponsored by Full Tilt Poker, began with five players and newly minted Titan Poker pro Sorel “Imper1um” Mizzi as the chip leader. The final five consisted of two Aussies, two Canadians, and one Dane in… Read more »
On this week’s edition of the ESPN.com poker news program “Inside Deal,” 2008 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event November Niner Dennis Phillips sat in throughout the duration of the episode. Phillips was the second guest to visit “Inside Deal” when it debuted last year. The hot topic of the week was the passage… Read more »
On Tuesday night, the World Series of Poker (WSOP) Tournament of Champions made its return to the small screen. ESPN continued its coverage of the annual tournament series with the event’s 10-handed final table. PokerStars pro Barry Greenstein told ESPN cameras that the group reminded him of the original basketball Dream Team, equating himself to… Read more »
On Saturday night, the final table of the 2010 Aussie Millions Main Event began airing on GSN. The one hour Full Tilt Poker-sponsored show hit the airwaves at 9:00pm ET featuring eight players, including chip leader Sorel “Imper1um” Mizzi, who had three times the stack of the next closest combatant. Mizzi, now with Titan Poker,… Read more »
On Tuesday night at 8:00pm ET, ESPN kicked off its coverage of the 2010 World Series of Poker (WSOP), which just wrapped up its midyear action from the Rio in Las Vegas. One of the many features in the preview special was a roundtable discussion with former Main Event champs Chris Moneymaker, Chris Ferguson, Scotty… Read more »
Coverage of the 2010 Aussie Millions on GSN rolled on Saturday night, with Paul Khoury and Grub Smith giving the call of Day 2 of the Main Event. A total of 746 players entered the AUD $10,000 buy-in tournament and the field had been slashed to 294. Full Tilt Poker sponsors the series and new… Read more »
On Saturday night, the Heads-Up Championship at the Aussie Millions aired on GSN. Only one hour of coverage was devoted to the event, which attracted 50 players. Once again, Paul Khoury and Grub Smith had the call. Each match-up was played in a best of three format and GSN producers displayed the final hands made… Read more »
