Last night ESPN began their coverage of the 2010 World Series of Poker Main Event with Days’ 1a and 1b of the poker tournament. A number of notable poker players and celebrities were spotted during the two 1-hour episodes including featured players Mike “The Mouth” Matusow, Annette “Annette_15” Obrestad, and Everybody Loves Raymond Star Ray Romano –who has become a WSOP regular. Some highlights from the telecast included an in-depth look at the prop bet between Mike Matusow and TedRead Full Article

As much as I was disappointed by ESPN’s broadcast of the $50k Players Championship it didn’t stop me from sitting down to watch the Tournament of Champions which aired last night. And either ESPN reads my work –which I doubt—or they have received a lot of complaints along the same lines –much more likely—because the TOC coverage was much, much better, and included some new features. First off, I almost fell out of my chair when I saw VPIP andRead Full Article

In the opening week of their 2010 World Series of Poker coverage ESPN focused on the $50,000 Players Championship, which was eventually won by one of the two Mizrachi brothers that made the final table, Mike “The Grinder” Mizrachi. This week attention will shift to the highly exclusive Tournament of Champions, which took a three year hiatus before the decision was made to bring back the freeroll tournament with $1 million in prize-money up for grabs. The tournament started withRead Full Article

A stacked final table with a brother vs. brother confrontation was the likely catalyst for the 15% ratings boost ESPN’s 2010 World Series of Poker coverage garnered for the season’s opening episode. The action revolved around the $50k buy-in Players Championship, one of the most coveted tournament titles in poker. The big story at the final were the Mizrachi brothers, Robert (32) and Michael (29), squaring off against one another. But poker fans were also treated with appearances by someRead Full Article

The 2010 November Nine have been chosen. This year’s table has quite a large range of skill sets from complete newbie’s to day in day out poker professionals. Only one can walk away and make poker history by becoming the 2010 World Series of Poker Main Event champion as well as receiving just over 8 million dollars. Jonathan Duhamel – Jonathan is sitting as the commanding chip leader with over 65 million chips in front of him. He has playedRead Full Article

When the 2010 World Series of Poker began the Brunson 10 –Doyles Room’s collection of young online poker talent—had six members and was looking to fill its 7th spot on the roster that includes Steve “gboro780” Gross, Zachary “Crazy Zachary” Clark, Dani “Ansky” Stern, Amit “amak316” Makhija, Chris “Moorman1” Moorman and Alex “AJKHoosier1” Kamberis. Doyles Room decided on a competition during the 2010 WSOP between four pre-selected poker players –Dan “djk123” Kelly, David “DocSands” Sands, Faraz “The-Toilet” Jaka and MichaelRead Full Article

Now that the World Series of Poker has come to a close, and the city of Las Vegas can return to whatever passes for normalcy poker fans are prepping to watch the tournaments that so far have only appeared in print. ESPN will broadcast 2010 World Series of Poker episodes beginning July 27th. The Episodes will air every Tuesday at 8PM and 9PM until the October 5th episode at which point the episodes will switch to the 9PM and 10PMRead Full Article

Even if you, or perhaps a player you staked, didn’t make the World Series of Poker Final Table you can still have a horse in the race if you want to lay a wager on who the eventual champion will be. One of the Best Online Betting Sites has put up the odds for each of the final 9 players left in the WSOP. The odds for the November Nine range from 6/4 for chip-leader Jonathan Duhamel, to 15-to-1 forRead Full Article

9 players walked away from the Rio poker tables this morning with an extra $811k in their pocket, but with hopes and dreams of winning a whole lot more. The 9 players who will participate in the WSOP Final Table November 9th and 10th are: 1. Jonathan Duhamel – 65,975,000 chips 2. John Dolan – 46,250,000 chips 3. Joseph Cheong – 23,525,000 chips 4. John Racener – 19,050,000 chips 5. Matthew Jarvis – 16,700,000 chips 6. Fillipo Candio – 16,400,000Read Full Article

The 2010 World Series of Poker Main Event will play down to the final table today, at which point the final 9 players –8 of whom will become millionaires—will go on an extended vacation until early November, when they will once again pack their bags for the Rio to declare the 2010 WSOP Main Event Champion. Poker fans still have a number of big name players to root for in the field of 27, with Jason Senti, Scott Clements, DavidRead Full Article