From PokerNews: ESPN Signs a New Seven-Year Contract with the World Series of Poker That puts the two in bed together through 2018. While not forever, I think in TV terms that really is a remarkably long deal. And yet […]
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I\’m watching it, for the first time. ESPN just did the sidebar piece on Justin Bonomo\’s prop bet on one of the 40something players living in Panorama Towers winning a bracelet. (Does anyone know if he won that bet? I\’m
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Apparently ESPN would make it easier for me to set my Tivo … here\’s the episode-by-episode schedule of the 2009 WSOP on ESPN. My only question — and I can almost bet they\’ve had this fight internally — is can\’t
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Taken from a post from Andrew Feldman over at Pokerroad\’s forum, the first question that comes up, why wasn\’t this considered last year?: ESPN.com Announces New Web-Only Original Poker Show, ESPN Inside Deal ESPN.com is expanding its poker coverage with
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Yeah, I almost forgot, too … was reminded by @ESPN_Poker: Don\’t forget, the 2009 WSOP debuts tonight on ESPN at 8 p.m. with the $40,000 no-limit hold \’em event We\’re way past complaining that ESPN is showing only four events,
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Mark my words, or at least check back in about 15 years … G4 is the next coming of MTV. And the Gen-Y and younger TV station (focussed mostly on the video-game geek culture, and re-runs of Tron) has a
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Beating almost everyone\’s expectations, the November Nine was established before 11pm Wednesday night with chip leader Darvin Moon cracked Jordan Smith\’s aces, flopping a set of eights. Here\’s how the final table is scheduled to be seated when the players
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Southpaw WSOP dealers: We want a pitcher, not a belly itcher! We\’re down to 14 players in the main event — Phil Ivey\’s the remaining good guy, Jeff Shulman\’s the bad guy, and James Akenhead\’s the Brit … On a
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Tom Schneider was seated at the ESPN feature table at the start of Day 6 and started in fourth chip position, though he seems to have slipped a bit. But he\’s wearing PokerStars gear! (Go poker agent madness!) The table
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The rail around the WSOP Main Event is substantial. Though the fans are quite a distance from most of the tables, many of them are there to support friends and family or catch a glimpse of some of the recognizable
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