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.
23 players have confirmed their seats for the million dollar buy-in 2014 WSOP Big One for One Drop tournament.
Amongst the registered players there are twelve poker pros which includes: Antonio Esfandiari, Sam Trickett, Phil Ivey, Erik Seidel, Phil Galfond, Jason Mercier, Brian Rast, Noah Schwartz, Bobby Baldwin and Andrew Robl.
Half of the seats are already confirmed as the event is limited to the first 56 players cap limit. This will be the second time the event has featured on the World Series of Poker schedule with the first taking place in 2012.
There have been some changes to the Poker All Time Money List in 2014, some poker pros have had a successful start to the year cashing at the 2014 Aussie Millions.
Phil Ivey has moved up from 6th place to 2nd place after his biggest tournament win in the 2014 Aussie Millions $250,000 Challenge.
Still topping the Poker All Time Money List is Antonio Esfandiari who’s biggest win was the million dollar buy-in 2012 WSOP The Big One for One Drop.
Daniel Negreanu is also hot on the heels of Phil Ivey with only a few dollars behind in tournament earnings in 2014, both players having success at this years Aussie Millions. Read More …
Antonio Esfandiari wins WSOP Big One for One Drop ($18,346,673) in the record breaking million dollar buy-in tournament. Sam Trickett was eliminated within 16 hands of being heads-up against The Magician, who has just made poker history.
Antonio Esfandiari is now in top position for all-time tournament winnings his live tournament winnings total more than $22,800,000. Esfandiari tweeted “This prize is MINE.” and posted a picture of the first place prize money.
Esfandiari now sits in first place on the poker all time money list as the most profitable poker player of all time, Phil Hellmuth also achieved his biggest cash of more than $2.6 million for his 4th place finish.