WSOP TV Scheduled to Start Next Week on ESPN
July 21st, 2009
The WSOP TV coverage on ESPN starts next week. (Image Courtesy ESPNMediaZone.com)
You might want to go shopping this weekend and pickup some extra beer, chips and guacamole. The WSOP ESPN TV coverage starts this Tuesday!
The season long coverage begins Tuesday, July 28, at 8 p.m. ET and will run each Tuesday until November 10.
WSOP TV coverage is quite a bit different this year from previous years with the entire focus on just four events: the $40,000 NL Holdem event, the Ante Up for Africa Charity tournament, the Champion’s Invitational and of course the $10,000 WSOP Main Event.
Coverage starts next week at the final table of the $40,000 event and will include Greg Raymer, Ted Forrest, Justin Bonomo, Alec Torelli, Vitaly Lunkin, Isaac Haxton, Dani Stern, Lex Veldhuis and Noah Schwartz.
The $40,000 Holdem Event, which was a new addition to the WSOP lineup this year, saw a surprisingly large field of 201 entrants to create the biggest non-Main Event prize pool in WSOP history, at $7.7 million with almost $2 million going to the winner.
It has been rumored that the success of this event will lead to it being a permanent addition to the WSOP lineup. Since the $40,000 buy-in was designed to represent the WSOP’s 40th anniversary, presumably next year it will be $41,000 and then $42,000 the year after, continuing into perpetuity.
If you want to plan out your TV watching for the next four months you can get the complete WSOP TV schedule to ensure you don’t miss anything. Or, you can just squint a little and check out the one we’ve got at the top of this post.
