USA Poker players have been limited in choices of online poker rooms since Black Friday, poker sites for US players are not quite up to the standards of what Pokerstars were offering the US market in terms of software, support and cashouts.

In this article we rate and review the best poker sites for us players to play plus links to download the latest version of the poker software.

Play online poker freerolls and win real money or make your first deposit and get a deposit bonus.

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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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In the ultimate poker showdown with Cake Poker vs Carbon Poker we compare the two online poker rooms to help you decide where to play poker online in the aftermath of Black Friday. The two USA poker sites are still accepting worldwide players including US players.

Both poker rooms are the flagships sites on their poker networks, CakePoker on the Cake Poker Network and CarbonPoker on the Merge Gaming Network.

While neither of the two sites can be compared to PokerStars or Full Tilt Poker, but they are still great alternative poker rooms where the recreational poker players can still play poker online for real money.

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The Micros is a popular animated comedy series based on online poker, the plot is based on three main characters Chase, Rose and Tommy. The comedy poker show features the characters on their quest from micro stakes poker to the big time with a series of web episodes, specials, minivids and music videos on YouTube.

The show was originally presented by Full Tilt Poker prior to Black Friday, it’s just a question of time before another network steps in to sponsor the show.

The writers of the show Jay Rosenkrantz & John Wray plan to release the series in HD DVD version.

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2011 WSOP Day 6 comes to an end with only 57 players remaining of the 6,865 registered for the Main Event. Day 7 starts this Monday with coverage being broadcast on ESPN2 between 7-11 pm.

There are only two more days remaining until the November Nine are announced, the 2011 WSOP Final Table will continue on 5th November where the winning player will earn the most respected trophy in poker, a World Series of Poker bracelet and $8,711,956 of the prize pool.

The current Chip Leader is Ryan Lenaghan with more than 12 million chips going in to Day 7.

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