The best evening in televised poker has just gotten better, and you won’t have to choose between two shows like the mother at the end of Good Son.
On tap for your prime-time poker fix is High Stakes Poker on GSN at 8 p.m. EST. Season 6 has been off at a breakneck pace, with Phil Hellmuth and Norwegian pro Andres Hoivold going busto in just two episodes. Tonight promises more action, with Pro Jason Mercier fresh to the table with monstrous stacks of fresh cheddar. Mercier will then be our tour guide on over to the 2009 World Series of Poker Europe (WSOPE), where he leads the pack, holding almost a 3-1 chip lead over the second largest stack in play.
The WSOPE event comes to a close tonight at 9 p.m. EST on ESPN2. Shown in two one hour segments, the culmination of 334 players gets down to the nitty gritty of it all, with many familiar names and faces hitting the felt for the coveted first place finish worth over $1.2 million. Nothing short of impressive, Daniel Negreanu returns for his second consecutive WSOPE final table. He’ll be in good company, with 2009 WSOP Main Event final tablists James Akenhead (9th) and Antoine Saout (3rd) joining him, as well as Card Player CEO Barry Shulman, father to 5th place Main Event finisher Jeff Shulman.
Tune in for three chock-full hours of the greatest show on earth that isn’t the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus.
Ashton Griffin has won the inaugural North American Poker Tour (NAPT) High-Roller Bounty Shootout at the Venetian, taking home a first prize of $455,000. If his name doesn’t ring any of those proverbial bells, you may better recognize him by his poker handle, Ashman103, a frequent regular across the nosebleeds of some of the finest no-limit hold’em cash games online.
This April, the International Federation of Poker will be accepted as an esteemed member of the International Mind Sports Association. This means the game of poker will be recognized as a “sport” by the International Olympic Committee, included amongst other games of skill such as chess or Go. Other mind sports nominees this year include Go Fish, Fifty-Two Pickup, War, and Up the River, Down the River.
It seems as though the lands of Norway are being pillaged and plundered again, and not by the Vikings that founded them.
It seems as though Iowa is the latest state to be joining the bandwagon, and it’s not one made by John Deere.
The Park Place of internet poker properties has just been purchased.
It’s everyone’s favorite time of year. No, not Free Cone Day at Ben & Jerry’s.
Hellmuth gets felted, Ivey gets richer, more Europeans in one place than the World Cup—High Stakes Poker is back on the Game Show Network (GSN).
