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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In the 40 years of the WSOP there has always been a top heavy payout structure which paid the top places really well. In fact the first few main events of the World Series of Poker only paid first place leaving runners up with nothing.

Being the biggest live event in the history of poker, the payout structure made it almost impossible for poker players to finish in the money in the WSOP Main Event. This year the WSOP payout structure will be very similar to what the online poker rooms use.
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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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Play the Mini Series of Poker online at Full Tilt Poker and experience some of the best poker action without even going to Vegas. All events are scheduled and based upon the actual WSOP with the buy-in reduce to 1/100 of the original series.

There is a total  $1.800,000 in guaranteed prize pools spread across the 57 events taking place between the 27 May until 5 July 2009.

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