It’s hard for some of us to fathom, but the World Poker Tour has been on the airwaves for a decade now, with the premiere episode from Season X of the popular poker tour scheduled to air on FOX Sports Net beginning February 12 at its regular timeslot of 8 PM EDT, with a re-airing at 11 PM EDT. What began as an experimentRead Full Article

Sam Holden may not have been able to win poker’s biggest prize at the final table of the World Series of Poker Main Event, but the UK native did add to the $782k he won for his 8th place finish in poker’s biggest tournament by winning the latest installment of the popular UK television show Late Night Poker. 32 players took part in theRead Full Article

It looks as if Black Friday has struck again, as the long-running televised poker cash-game, High Stakes Poker, will see its run on the Game Show Network come to an end according to a report by BuzzerBlog.com. The site is reporting that the network’s January lineup does not feature the popular poker telecast after January 2nd, 2012, ending a six-year run on the network.Read Full Article

It’s a small, select, group: Juha Helpi, Andy Black, JC Tran, David Benyamine, and now you can add Andy Frankenberger to that list after the reigning WPT Player of the Year captured the Party Poker Premiere League title on Thursday. Frankenberger navigated his way through the extremely talented field of 16 players, and bested a final table that included November Niner Matt Giannetti, reigningRead Full Article

From November 13th to the 17th Party Poker will be at the Playboy Club London in Mayfair for the PartyPoker.com Premier League Poker Mixed Game Championship. The Premiere League is an invitation-only event featuring a hefty $25,000 buy-in that will appear on Sky Sports in the UK, and elsewhere across the globe. The disciplines that will be featured will be Pot Limit Omaha, PotRead Full Article

Leeann Tweeden has been a longtime figure on the sports’ scene and in recent years the former correspondent for the Best Damn Sports Show Period has been a major part of the poker scene; hosting numerous televised poker shows including Poker After Dark (which she began hosting in 2008) and the NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship. Tweeden has appeared on just about every men’sRead Full Article

Apparently ESPN felt the ratings for their “live” coverage of the 2011 World Series of Poker Main Event this summer were strong enough to warrant the network to adopt the “near-live” format for the Final Table of the WSOP Main Event set to air in early November. ESPN will air the entire final table, using a combination of ESPN and ESPN2, as well asRead Full Article

Another week in the poker world means another Epic Poker League press release; this time the press release has to do with the upcoming TV schedule for the inaugural season of the exclusive poker tour. The Epic Poker League can be seen on two networks, CBS and the Discovery Network’s Velocity Channel. A total of 20 original hours of Epic Poker League programming willRead Full Article

In a press release on Wednesday the Annie Duke and Jeffrey Pollack led Epic Poker League added the final piece of the puzzle as the long awaited debut of the exclusive poker league is just days away, announcing that they have signed a television deal with CBS and Discovery Communications’ Velocity Network. In all, the two networks will air 20 hours of the inauguralRead Full Article

Poker enthusiasts are likely blocking off their Tuesday nights for the next 19 weeks as ESPN’s coverage of the 2011 World Series of Poker is set to begin tonight and run through November. Unfortunately, the first week will showcase an idea that fell on its face at the 2011 WSOP: The Main Event Grudge matches. The Grudge matches were meant to showcase/relive some ofRead Full Article