Notable players who have survived their first day include: Eric Baldwin, Vanessa Selbst, Shaun Deeb, Daniel Negreanu, Joe Cada, Johnny Chan, Doyle Brunson, Antonio Esfandiari, Phil Ivey and Brian Hastings.
Some notable poker pros that have already been eliminated so far include: Phil Hellmuth, Joe Hachem, Tom Dwan, Chip Jett, Bertrand Grospellier, Greg Raymer, Justin Smith, Chino Rheem, Andrew Robl, Lex Veldhuis, Jonathan Duhamel and Chris Moneymaker.
ESPN will begin their televised coverage of the WSOP 2012 main event starting on the 14th August with the 2012 World Series of Poker: Main Event on ESPN at 9 p.m. and ending with ESPN 2012 World Series of Poker: Main Event Final Table on 30th October 2012.
The final table feed broadcast will be delayed by 15 minutes to ensure fairness to the finalists.
This year ESPN have added The Big One for One Drop series and the WSOP Circuit National Championship to the broadcast lineup in the three weeks prior to the main event, both series will be shown on ESPN and ESPN3.
Those looking to watch live streaming tables from the 2012 WSOP will be pleased to know that WSOP.com will stream 60 World Series of Poker Final Tables Online with a five minute delay without hole cards for more information about 2012 WSOP Live web stream.
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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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.
WSOP main event final table:
The WSOP final table features commentary by Lon McEachern, David Tuchman, Norman Chad and Antonio Esfandiari who will discuss the plays virtually live, with hole cards revealed of players who are involved in the hand after the flop, no pre-flop folded hands will be shown.
Poker fans will see the WSOP televised in a new exciting format, with coverage also available streaming online, smartphone applications and on Xbox live.
