Leslie Radue

Last night I watched the 2011 WSOP final table being streamed live online, well the first part of the final as I’m sure many others did. I hooked up a laptop to my 42 inch LED TV set up the cables and was all good to go, well at least that’s what I thought would be the case.

What unfolded was a bit of mixed feelings in regard to how the WSOP 2011 live stream was run and in general how much better coverage for the greatest poker event of the year could have been handled.

My first issue was I searched all my satellite channels which is really saying something as I have a Dreambox and access to most European TV channels via satellite which includes ESPN and ESPN America but sadly the WSOP was being shown on ESPN2 which I could not access.

My only means to watch the “WSOP 2011 live” was via a live streaming broadcast of the WSOP which was easy enough to find as we had previously posted about the 2011 WSOP Final Live on ESPN.

So after setting up my laptop TV combo I loaded the WSOP live stream only to find out that too many others had done the same thing causing the live feed to crash I then checked out the WSOP twitter feed which read “Sorry folks, we’re experiencing a minor issue with the feed. It should be up and running in 15 min. Players now on the 1st break of the day.”
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Great news for fans of Full Tilt Poker, the former #2 venue in online poker and even better news for those who have had their bankrolls frozen at the site since Full Tilt’s worldwide closure after the AGCC revoked their gaming license.

Full Tilt Poker looks set to make a comeback deal with Groupe Bernard Tapie taking over command of the once so popular poker room, the deal which has the approval of the DOJ will include paying all outstanding players worldwide that have money suspended in their Full Tilt player accounts.

Although exact details of the deal have not been fully disclosed to date, Managing Director of Groupe Bernard Tapie, Laurent Tapie has confirmed that “payment terms are defined” and that he expects an agreement to be drafted and signed within the next two weeks.

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The 2011 WSOP main event final will be broadcast on ESPN 2 and ESPN 3 starting this Sunday, 6^th November at 3:30 PM EST nearly live from the Rio in Las Vegas.

The ESPN WSOP 2011 broadcast with hole cards being shown will be delayed by 15 minutes to allow fair play in what ESPN considers to be game changing WSOP coverage for this year’s WSOP main event final.

The November nine will battle it out on the final table starting this Sunday at 3:30 pm EST until there are only three players remaining. The remaining three finalists will stand to face each other on Tuesday starting at 9pm.

One thing for sure is that we can expect hours of entertaining live poker from over the next coming days.

Live coverage of the WSOP main event on ESPN and ESPN2

WSOP main event final table:

• ESPN2, Sunday, November 6 at 3:30 p.m. EST

• ESPN, Tuesday, November 8 at 9 p.m. EST

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One of the major setbacks from over the last few years for PokerStars at least from my perspective has been that the tournaments are way over crowded and take way too long to finish, when you enter a Tourney at PokerStars the numbers initially seem reasonable but sure enough, come the end of extended registration the number of entries is insane and it takes forever to reach the final, what you thought would have taken two hours to complete can take upwards of 6-7 hours should you end up on the final table. At times these extended periods of play are enjoyable however when we are talking about $3-$5 buyins often it is a waste of time unless you finish in the top 3 paying places.

PokerStars must have realized that this time factor for many of their players is an issue so they have concepted a rather ingenious new tournament format that places its emphasis on Time.

The new advent is aptly named:”PokerStars Time Tourneys”, the new Time Tourneys from Poker Stars offer a fast action paced new format of poker tournaments which have a fixed time to end, once the scheduled time of the tourney has been reached the tournament ends and the prize pool is split among the remaining players according to chip stack size.

The new Time Tourneys will offer buy-ins from as low as $1 and tournament playing times will range from as little as 15 minutes all the way up to 180 minutes and will be running around the clock. Get a free PokerStars Time Tourney ticket, simply read more.

PokerStars Marketing Code – STARS600

PokerStars Time Tourneys Free Ticket Code – TIME

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PartyPoker Mac version software has just been launched, after many years of being in the online poker industry PartyPoker have finally released a Mac version of their Party Poker software, previously only Windows OS was fully supported.

Following the lead of many other poker networks who already offer a downloadable Mac compatible version of their poker clients, PartyPoker have developed their own stand alone Apple Mac Poker game which will please many OS X players who in the past were forced to play the no download flash version of the game known as PartyPoker Anywhere.

PartyPoker Bonus Code

WAPBIG – 100% up to $500
EUROPOKER – 100% up to €320
WAPGB – 100% up to £250

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