Leslie Radue

At long last you will no longer need to watch replays of last year’s WSOP as ESPN have started broadcasting the new 2009 World Series of Poker episodes which began yesterday with the first TV broadcast of the WSOP 2009 being the 40th Anniversary $40k NLHE tournament which was shown at 8pm to 10pm EST on 28th July.

With the next major ESPN poker TV event being the WSOP Champions Cup Invitational event which will be televised on the 4th August followed shortly afterwards by the Ante Up For Africa Charity tourney set to be hitting your TV on the 11th, check the full ESPN Poker TV schedule for the WSOP 2009 by reading the rest of this article.

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November Nine WSOP: Event 57, the $10000 World Championship No Limit Texas Hold’em main event 2009 is now over for the time being with the nine remaining players set to compete on the final table in November.

Phil Ivey has booked his place in the WSOP 2009 November nine group with many considering him to be the greatest poker player in the world.

Jordan Smith was knocked out on the bubble in 10th place winning $896,730 with all the remaining players comprising of the 2009 November nine guaranteed at least $ 1,263,602 and a whole lot of press coverage and publicity.
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Phil Ivey has won the $2,500 No-Limit Deuce to Seven Draw Event #8 in this year’s WSOP for his 6th WSOP Bracelet and $96,361. Phil Ivey is rated by many as the single best poker player in the world and he has proved them right once again by starting in sixth position in the chip count out of seven players on the final day’s play to go on to win the 2-7 Draw WSOP 2009 title.

Phil Ivey is member of Team FullTilt Poker and can often be found playing online at FullTiltPoker.com usually playing high limit games.

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It’s back!. The PartyPoker Million Dollar Hand Promotion will be running again for the month of June 2009 between 5th – 28th. Players stand the chance to win over a million dollars in the popular Million Dollar hand Promo brought back due to demand from PartyPoker.com

The way the Party Poker Million Dollar Hand Promo works is that players get a card for each 15 PartyPoints they accumulate throughout the promotional period and all players completing a 5 card hand with a pair or higher winning a prize. Players who receive a Royal Flush with their accumulated cards win $1-million.

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The 40th Anniversary of the World Series of poker is well underway with the first event being the Casino Employees tournament which started on Wednesday but the real news is the $40,000 Event #2 of the WSOP 2009.

The $40,000 No Limit Hold’em special tournament got underway this Thursday with a total of 201 entrants the $40,000 buy in was designated to highlight the World Series’ 40th year anniversary and has managed to attract a poker star studded tournament, the tournament itself will be conducted over four days with a slow blind structure and deep stacks of 120,000 for starters event, slowed down the structure and gave players plenty of chips to play with. The $40k NLHE will be one of only four WSOP events aimed for broadcast on television by ESPN next summer.

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