World Series Of Poker, one of the most prestigious poker tournaments, announced recently a change of their rules. Another speculations that catches peoples attention is about what the new commisioner, Mitch Garber, can do now that Jeffrey Pollack left. On the otherhand, Twitter and other social media sites has been a huge help in promoting poker to people and giving the latest news and updates in what's happening in the tournament.

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It's interesting mix of High-Stakes Cash games and regular visits from some of the best professional poker players made Poker After Dark continually gather more and more audiences especially now with poker in the limelight.

After a competitive but a great run and continuous success for five seasons, NBC's Poker After Dark is back and all set for season six. It will be held at the Golden Nugget Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas.

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He was just recently been busted for having handguns in his locker. And now, reports say that Washington Wizards star shooting guard, blogger and WCP favorite Gilbert Arenas and his teammate Javaris Crittenton pointed guns at each other in the locker room on the day of Christmas Eve because of a gambling debt worth $25,000 that Arenas owes to Crittenton.

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We all heard about Tom "Durrrr" Dwan, Phil Ivey and Patrik Antonius sitting in on the online poker games. One of the biggest mover among poker player you may not know a lot about is Brian Townsend – largely known for his success playing No Limit Hold 'Em and Pot-Limit Omaha at Full Tilt Poker, playing under the nickname "sbrugby".

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The hit song "Poker Face" by pop superstar Lady Gaga has given her three-time Grammy Nomination including Record of the year and Best Dance Recording, not to mention worldwide success. Now one of the popular hotspot in Sin City, The Palms Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, will feature the said song at their newest ad campaign.

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Cornel Andrew Cimpan took down his second title in the 2009 World Poker Tour – Foxwoods World Poker Finals more than $900k after overpowering an intensely bull-headed final table. The WPT Foxwoods World Poker Finals was set for an exciting finale as the cast of poker pros consisted of 2 former WPT champions.

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Joseph Cada realized that college wasn't meant for him. A college dropout from Shelby Township, Michigan. But his decision proved to be the most lucrative of all. He is the youngest poker player among the WSOP November Nine members. One of which is the crowd favorite, Phil Ivey, and a self-employed logger of Maryland, Darvin Moon.

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Yup, the final two are set! The 2009 40th Annual World Series of Poker World Championship reaches it's final two players. The Ultimate Everyman (Darvin Moon) and The Youngest-Ever Potential Champion (Joseph Cada) will resume play this monday at 10pm Pacific Time.

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In the latest episode of the hit CBS reality show, The Amazing Race, Poker Players Tiffany Michelle and Maria Ho have been eliminated though defied many critics expectations. They were the only all-female team this season.

For those who aren't familiar with the TV show. The Amazing Race is a reality TV game show in which teams of two people race around the world in competition with other teams. Contestants must arrive first at "pit stops" at the end of each leg of the race to win prizes and to avoid coming last, which carries the possibility of elimination or a significant disadvantage in the following leg.

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Mike "The Ambassador Of Poker" Sexton has been inducted as the newest member of The Poker Hall Of Fame this year. Mike Sexton has been in the poker industry for over 20 years. Mike Sexton is now the 38th member if the Poker Hall Of Fame, becoming the only member of the nine finalists this year to garner induction. The remaining eight candidates, who were under consideration this year, remain eligible for future consideration.

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Annie Duke is putting another charity tournament and this time, the WPT, WSOP and Sports Legends Challenge join forces to its Celebrity Poker Night, a charity poker tournament for the benefit of the Decision Education Foundation.

The Celebrity Poker Night will take place at the Commerce Casino in Los Angeles . Celebrities and poker pros will all taking the felt incuding Shannon Elizabeth, Tobey Maguire, Ben Affleck, Mena Suvari, Van Nguyen, Phil Laak and Freddy Deeb. This gives all celebrities and poker pros will be having an evening of fun with a "home style" poker game.

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The final table of the 2009 World Poker Tour Festa al Lago Classic $15,000 No-Limit Hold’em championship commenced yesterday with 275 players had cut down its way down to the final six, and they returned to see who would win with the grand prize of $1,218,255.

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A sellout around the United States last week by the launching the Body Issue of “ESPN: The Magazine.” The periodical profiled athletes and their physiques and included an image of Phil Hellmuth, Scotty Nguyen, Jennifer Harman and Daniel Negreanu playing poker in the nude.

Apart from poker, other sports showcased in the magazine include boxing, bull riding, golf, baseball, Motocross, NASCAR, basketball, hockey, football, soccer, softball, swimming, surfing, tennis, track and field, and mixed martial arts.

The latest ESPN's Body Issue shocked the poker industry with some of the best poker player's nude photo. As poker players they concealed theirselves to others in poker tournaments so that they can bluff their way to victory, now they have revealed a lot of themselves in this latest publication.

According to cardplayer.com's interviews:

“We’ve always been committed to showing fans a different side of the sports and athletes they love,” said Gary Belsky, editor-in-chief of ESPN The Magazine. “This issue, from the amazing photos to the innovative journalism, is just our latest effort to do that. We’re very happy with the results.”

“Yikes,” said Jennifer Harman when she was reminded that ESPN The Magazine’s Body Issue.

Jennifer Harman holds 2 World Series of Poker bracelets in open events. In 2000 She won in the Deuce to 7 Draw event and in 2002 she won Limit Hold'em event.

Jennifer Harman admitted that she was nervous about the shoot but went ahead on the assurance of a friend. She said; “I got a phone call from one of my friends at ESPN. He said that it was going to be a good shot and that it would be done with a lot of class.”

Daniel Negreanu wasn’t overly concerned about stripping off after he learned off the other poker players taking part. He said; “It’s not like they were going to have Patrik Antonius or Gus Hansen there. I can fit in with this group.”

Daniel Negreanu or otherwise known as "Kid Poker" was born on July 26, 1974 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada to Ann and Constantin. After ten years, Daniel has achieved possibly the greatest live tournament results record ever seen. In 1998 at just 23 years old, he became the youngest ever player at the time to win a World Series bracelet, after taking down the $2,000 Pot Limit Hold’em event. This was to be the start of an incredible run of success at the WSOP, one that still shows no sign of stopping today.

Negreanu joked; “I worked out I had a nice tan going. I sucked my belly in and I was good to go.”

“This was the only co-ed photo shoot we did for the magazine, so that’s huge,” said Sarah Turcotte, the general editor for ESPN who worked on that particular photo shoot. “To go topless in front of your competitors, that’s tough…But the other players immensely respected Jennifer going into it, having already competed with her in high-stakes poker games.”

The entire photo shoot took about two hours, according to Turcotte.

“The atmosphere was pretty laid back, pretty easy going, a lot of laughing going on,” said Harman. “I felt comfortable. I’ve known these guys forever.”

The Body Issue of ESPN The Magazine are now available, get your copies now!

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The WSOP (World Series Of Poker) and ESPN the television broadcaster have agreed a new 7 year deal in an extension to their current agreement.

WSOP and ESPN owner Harrah's Entertainment announced Tuesday a new seven year deal worth an undisclosed amount.

The news comes on the same day as the first two of 24 episodes covering the 2009 Main Event are set to debut. Ratings for the initial 2009 episodes - those covering the $40,000 No Limit Hold’em event, the Champions Invitational, and the Ante Up For Africa charity event - are down 8% from the previous year.

The cable sports giant has long been associated with the WSOP. For ten years from the late 1980s to the late 1990s the network aired one-hour episodes covering the main event final table. More modern coverage, complete with hole cards, began in 2002. The next year, ESPN’s coverage of the WSOP Main Event became a mainstay when Tennessee accountant Chris Moneymaker became the improbable champion.

The apparent new TV deal comes as ESPN’s coverage of the 2009 WSOP Main Event ramps up. Last month the network began airing coverage of the event, which culminates with the final table in November.

ESPN said its 2008 coverage of the WSOP drew a 0.9 rating. The network said last year's WSOP reached 919,000 homes and 1.13 million viewers, up 13% and 15% from 2007 respectively.

Surprisingly, ESPN's extensive commitment to televised poker comes amidst stagnant ratings. Though the 2008 WSOP drew an average of 1.13 million viewers, up 15% from 2007, ratings for the 2009 WSOP have fallen 8% thus far from their 2008 levels. However, the addition of the "November Nine" concept -- a delayed, semi-live Final Table broadcast -- boosted ratings for the 2008 Final Table by 46% over the 2007 Final Table.

A network executive who was not authorized to speak about the deal put it this way -- "ESPN is bullish on poker for a long time to come."

ESPN began airing new episodes of the 2009 World Series of Poker on July 28th. Thus far, three two-hour blocks of coverage have aired featuring the $40,000 No-Limit Hold’em event, the Champions Invitational, and the Ante Up for Africa Celebrity/Charity event. The first two of the 24 episodes chronicling the 2009 Main Event will premiere tomorrow, Tuesday August 18, at 8pm EST.





Sources:
http://news.bluffmagazine.com/espn-signs-new-seven-year-deal-to-broadcast-wsop-6547/
http://www.foxbusiness.com/story/markets/industries/media/espn-inks-new--year-deal-world-series-poker/
http://www.pokernews.com/news/2009/08/espn-signs-a-new-seven-year-contract-with-the-wsop-7072.htm

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The highly anticipated new poker reality show kicks off last Sunday featuring four professionals. Now, the G4 network is taking this mini-Renaissance of televised poker a step further. Take the traditional reality television concept of "four guys picked to live in a house," mix in some hard-core poker action, season it with a healthy dose of prop betting and Vegas hijinks.

The show is titled "2 Months, $2 Million" it's set to premier last Sunday, August 16th at 9 p.m. ET on the G4 network. With Las Vegas serving as the backdrop, four online pros, each between the ages of 22-24, will try to do exactly as the title says and collectively hit the $2 million mark over the summer using their own bankrolls.

Online Poker Pros Emil "Whitelime" Patel, Jay "Krantz" Rosenkrantz, Dani "Ansky" Stern and Brian "Flawless Victory" Roberts will be playing to collectively earn $2 Million over a period of 2 Months.

The four are not just online players, though. In fact, each of them made the money in the 2008 WSOP $10K Heads-Up Championship. And in this year's 2nd event, the $40K No Limit 40th Anniversary tourney, Stern just missed out on his first gold bracelet, finishing 4th for a $548,315 payday.

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The 4th Annual Luc Robitaille Celebrity Poker Tournament 2009 will be taking place at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. The event will kick off Frozen Fury weekend with a game of No Limit Texas Hold'em. The players from LA Kings and Colorado Avalanche will come and play as they raise money for Echoes of Hope.

Echoes of Hope a charity founded by Stacia and Luc Robitaille, strives to awaken the spirit of hope in the lives of deserving at-risk and emancipated foster youth by providing the resources, knowledge, skills, love and support they need to reach their full potential.

EVENT OVERVIEW Date: Friday September 25, 2009 Time: Pre-party (Studio 54): 3:00pm* Tournament: 6:30pm Place: MGM Grand, Las Vegas, NV Details: Pre-party at Studio 54 followed by a No Limit Texas Hold ‘Em Tournament. Buy-in =$600 ($500 at time of registration and $100 on day of tournament). Guaranteed $40,000 in cash prizes. Bounty prizes for knocking out NHL players!

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50 cent, one of the most successful rappers, has signed up to appear in a new film. Curtis Jackson [50 cent's real name] alongside with fellow musicians Wisin and Yandel, and Oscar-winning actor Benicio Del Toro will be feature in the film set in the world of professional poker.


El Cantante's co-producer, David Maldonado, is set to direct the said movie and filming will take place in Puerto Rico.


The movie is one of several new poker films thought to be in line with Matt Damon's recently fueling speculation that a sequel to one of the best gambling movie of all time Rounders.

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