National Heads-Up Poker Championship Starts Airing Sunday

The National Heads-Up Poker Championship (click for full schedule and other coverage) will be airing at noon Sundays on NBC over the next six weeks.

The Aussie Millions Cash Game has its final episode this weekend: the two million-dollar stacks, Tom Dwan and Patrik Antonius, will be playing a heads-up NLHE/PLO rotation.

I wish "Greendwan" could go on forever, but High Stakes Poker is finished with day three (of the three-day taping) and moves on to day two on Sunday. The lineup is Daniel Negreanu, Joe Hachem, Howard Lederer, Patrik Antonius, Phil Laak, Antonio Esfandiari, Sam Simon, and Nick Cassavetes. Tom Dwan later replaced Sam Simon.

The next World Poker Tour is the Southern Poker Championship, from the Beau Rivage in Biloxi, Mississippi. The players aren't well known to me: Soheil Shamseddin, Allen Carter, Chuck Kim, Tyler Smith, Bobby Suer, and Hilbert Shirey.

The Irish Poker Open is being streamed live over the internet (it works better in Internet Explorer than Firefox for me). The final table is Monday.

This week's newsbites:

• Phil Hellmuth writes in his column: "Regrettably, I've had more than a few meltdowns on television. But one thing's for sure. I create riveting television, sort of like a police chase that ends in multicar pile up!"
  

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