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Poker on TV soon
Tuesday night/Wednesday mornings Full Tilt Poker Late Night Poker on Channel 5. Wednesday night/Thursday mornings sees Party Poker: The Classics on Channel 5. Thursdays at midnight see highlights of a recent tv poker tournament on Channel 5. Thursdays at 10pm watch Sky Poker Five-00 on Sky Sports Extra.'OMGClayAiken' special PKR TV commentary hits the European airwaves
High Stakes cash game legend Phil 'OMGClayAiken' Galfond recently joined the crew of PKR TV to commentate on some of the best ring game action on PKR, including footage from a special 'Galfond TV Cash Game'.The three episodes are now scheduled to go out across 27 European countries on The Poker Channel from March 8-21, 2010. In the UK and Ireland, the airtimes are (GMT) 22:00-23:00 and 01:30-02:00 Monday through Friday and 00:00-01:00 Saturday and Sunday. In Europe, the shows can be seen Monday thru Friday at 19:00 - 20:00 and from 02:00 - 03:00. On the weekends, the shows air at 13:00-14:00 and again at 01:00-02:00. All times are CET.
Renowned for his prowess in high stakes cash games Galfond, also known as 'jman' on the 2+2 Forums, shared his poker wisdom on both the regular PKR cash game table and a high stakes special where players sat down with buy-ins of $1,000 to $5,000.
Beside his cash success, Galfond also has six World Series cashes and a WSOP bracelet to his name. Having founded the BluefirePoker.com training site with Billy Murphy in January 2009, Galfond and his team of pro players provide in-depth poker strategy analysis through instructional videos. In March 2009 they signed a partnership deal with PKR with the next-gen poker site taking the role of exclusive European partner.
Marketing Manager Erika Schwartz said, "It was fantastic to see Phil in action in the PKR TV studios. Players and spectators alike will really enjoy his commentary, and possibly pick up a trick or two. We are very excited to be able to offer this to all our European viewers.'
EPT comes to TV
Don't miss all the action from Season 3 of the PokerStars European Poker Tour, showing soon on Challenge TV.Filmed on location at Europe's most prestigious casinos, you'll get to experience the highs, lows, bad beats and great plays that are part of the richest poker series in Europe.
The EPT will be broadcast at 11:00 PM every Friday, Saturday and Sunday night starting May 25th 2007 on Challenge TV (Sky Channel 124, Virgin Media Channel 152).
The EPT TV show, with expert analysis from Greg Raymer, John Duthie and Lee Jones, kicked off with a simmering confrontation in Barcelona that included Phil Ivey and Bjorn Erik Glenne and ended with the richest tournament ever held in Europe, the EPT Grand Final in Monte Carlo.
The Grand Final featured PokerStars qualifier Gavin Griffin, Ram Vaswani (number one All-Time EPT Tournament Leader Board) and Canadian Marc Karam, making his second consecutive final table in Monte Carlo.
Elsewhere, you can watch and learn from some of the world's finest poker players, including Andy Black, Johnny Lodden, TJ Cloutier, Marcel Luske, Roland de Wolfe, Victoria Coren, Barny Boatman, Isabelle Mercier, Carlos Mortensen, Dario Minieri and Willie Tann.
EPT Season 3 Show Schedule
Baden June 8, 9, 10
Dublin June 15, 16, 17
Copenhagen June 22, 23, 24
Dortmund July 29, 30 June, 1
Monte Carlo July 6, 7, 8, 13
PokerStars sent over 700 online qualifiers to Season 3 of the EPT, and PokerStars are looking forward to sending even more in Season 4!
Ladbrokes Poker Million VI
Europe’s richest and most prestigious live televised poker tournament is back for a sixth year offering players:- $2,150,000 Final Table
- $1,000,000 First Prize
- $500,000 Added Prize Money
But who will be the champion this year? Will it be another Ladbrokes online qualifier?
This year, the rules on player sponsorship have been amended by the tournament organisers Matchroom Sport, Europe’s leading provider of televised poker, so that players can now wear their sponsor’s logo when competing in the televised stages of the Ladbrokes Poker Million.
In recognition of this change 28 seats have been reserved by Matchroom Sports to recruit the cream of the world’s Sponsored Professionals to compete against the cream of Ladbrokes Poker players in Europe’s most prestigious tournament.
Qualification
Online qualification for a $27,500 Poker Million VI package will run from February on a while seats available basis.Package Winners will receive the $25,000 tournament buy-in and a $2,500 expenses package and be invited to London for the filming of the heats and semi-finals in late July.
The victors from the Semi-Finals will be invited back to London on 21st December for the Final Table which will again be broadcast live on Sky Sports.
If you do not make it to the final table, you may still be able to join in all of the excitement by attending the now legendary
Most poker player’s dream of landing the big one, that will let them give up the day job. The last two Poker Million tournaments have fulfilled the dream for Tony “spider99” Jones and Rajesh “foggy71” Modha. Will it be you this year?
Qualify for the Ladbrokes Poker Cruise 2011.
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