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

One of the longest tenured poker telecasts has come to an end according to multiple sources in the poker industry, as NBC has announced that it will not be bringing back the NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship in 2012, which would have been the tournament’s eighth season. The decision was almost certainly influenced by the changed poker landscape in the aftermath of Black Friday,Read Full Article

With all of the poker programming that has been pulled from the airwaves over the past week it’s good to see that some shows will remain for all of us die-hard poker enthusiasts. With PokerStars NAPT being pulled from ESPN, as well as FOX pulling the PokerStars.net Big Game and PokerStars.net Million Dollar Challenge the televised poker schedule has been pretty sparse as ofRead Full Article

The elite eight is set to return to the poker tables at Caesars Palace on Sunday, and headlining the remaining field will be the 76 year-old 10-time WSOP bracelet winner Doyle Brunson. Along the way Doyle has defeated Brock Parker, who won back-to-back bracelets at the 2009 WSOP; Actor, and poker enthusiast, Don Cheadle; and young superstar Annette Obrestad. In the round of eightRead Full Article