2010 WSOP Main Event Coverage Begins Tonight on ESPN

Coverage of The Grinder’s amazing Main Event run begins tonight on ESPN.

After a preview show, the $50,000 Poker Players Championship and the Tournament of Champions, ESPN’s coverage of the 2010 WSOP moves on to the Main Event starting tonight.

Beginning at 8 p.m., the cable sports giant will begin broadcasting the first bits of coverage from this year’s WSOP Main Event. With 7,319 entrants, this year’s Main Event became the second-largest live poker tournament of all-time, behind only the 2006 WSOP Main Event won by Jamie Gold at the height of the poker boom. 

As usual, Norman Chad and the ever diss-proof Lon McEachern host the show. The first two hours of coverage will feature more than a few faces poker fans have come to know well over the last seven years, including 2003 WSOP Main Event winner Chris Moneymaker, 2004 WSOP Main Event champ Greg Raymer, 2008 WSOP Europe winner Annette Obrestad, 1995 WSOP Main Event winner Dan Harrington and 2008 WSOP Player of the Year Erick Lindgren. The star of the show, though, is undoubtedly Michael “The Grinder” Mizrachi. Winner of the 2010 WSOP Poker Players Championship, which aired two weeks ago on ESPN, Mizrachi made an improbable run to the final table of the Main Event to become a member of the November Nine and keep himself in contention to tie Frank Kassela for 2010 WSOP Player of the Year.

Coverage of the 2010 WSOP Main Event begins on ESPN tonight at 8 p.m. ET with a one-hour episode. and continues with a second one-hour episode at 9 p.m. ET.