The pilot episode of Underground Poker airs on the Discovery Channel this Wednesday and features poker hosts Antonio Esfandiari and Phil Laak.
The classic team of poker pros search for the biggest Underground Poker games around the World with the hopes of playing high stakes poker home games.
The Underground Poker TV show will focus more on the characters they meet along the way, with no scripted or staged content. It won’t be the regular format that normally features many televised poker hands and statistics for poker enthusiasts.
It’s been a strange year for poker especially online poker with the industry turned upside down on Black Friday. Online poker traffic has decrease by 31% as a result of an unstable US market.
Not all online poker rooms suffered a loss in traffic, CarbonPoker and Merge Gaming Network experienced an increase of traffic up to 76%.
Notable Poker players for 2011 include: Erik Seidel new leader on the poker all time money list, Phil Hellmuth, Ben Lamb (Player of the Year) and Pius Heinz (2011 World Series Of Poker Main Event Champion)
Read more for the top poker articles and major event winners of Poker 2011.
Full Tilt Poker Pro Erik Seidel has been on the top of his game in 2011 living up to his poker ambassador reputation. This year alone he has achieved so much including the top spot in the poker all time money list after winning the 2011 NBC Heads-Up Poker Championship this weekend.
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Phil Ivey has reached the top spot in the poker all-time money list, with more than $12.8 million in career earnings from tournament cashes, Phil Ivey recently over took Daniel Negreanu who was current leader. Both being highly competitive poker players we can only expect 2010 to be a battle between the top two pros/poker sites ( Full Tilt Poker and PokerStars ) to defend their positions on the career earnings leaderboard.
Phil Ivey is currently rated the best poker player in the world, Learn from the Pros at FullTilt Poker.
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Phil Ivey har nå toppen stedet i poker all-time penge liste, med mere end $12.8 millioner karriere indtjening fra turneringen cashes, Phil Ivey nylig over tog Daniel Negreanu, der var nuværende leder. Begge er yderst konkurrencedygtige pokerspillere kan vi kun forvente, 2010 at være en kamp mellem de to største fordele/poker sites (Full Tilt Poker og PokerStars) til at forsvare deres positioner på karriere indtjening leaderboard.
Phil Ivey er i øjeblikket vurderet den bedste pokerspiller i verden, Lær af de professionelle på FullTilt Poker.