Best Damn Poker Show Returns

Best Damn Poker Show returns for a second season on Monday. It's a reality show featuring UltimateBet pros Phil Hellmuth and Annie Duke coaching competing teams. 24 amateur contestants compete, including poker hottie Christina Lindley. 7 episodes will air Mondays at 9 PM, with reruns at 11 PM and 12:30 AM, on Fox Sports Net. As always with Fox Sports Net, check your local listings for the time on your affiliate. You can also check out:

• our coverage of the taping drama and review of season one,
  
• the show's page on UltimateBet (turn down your volume first; they promise extra scenes from the show), and
• the press release.

The next World Poker Tour episode continues the Bellagio Cup coverage. Poker After Dark is in rerun again for a few weeks.

The PokerStars Caribbean Adventure continues on PokerStars.tv.

This week's newsbites:

• Poker News Daily added their piece to the "EPT is surpassing WPT" opus;
  
• they used mobile hole card cams at the WSOP Europe to film hands that weren't at the featured tables;
  
• the WPT films three more ClubWPT episodes this weekend, which are the last of season one;
• Phil Hellmuth reveals how he did on the Poker After Dark cash games and why he didn't play High Stakes Poker; and
  
• Annie Duke is on the next Apprentice, Donald Trump's reality TV show, which starts March 1.
  

Check our poker on TV schedule for the list of shows regularly running new episodes.

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