Poker on TV Update: Poker Players on Amazing Race, New Poker After Dark

Next week's Poker After Dark is a tourney, "USA vs. Italy," featuring Chris Ferguson, Howard Lederer, Erick Lindgren, Marco Traniello, Max Pescatori and Dario Minieri.

Poker players Maria Ho and Tiffany Michelle are featured on the latest season of Amazing Race, premiering Sunday at 8 PM on CBS.

The final table of the Monte Carlo Ante Up for Africa tournament airs Saturday at 2:00 PM on CBS. I thought the first episode was below average. 

The EPT London High Roller event will be streamed live on Friday, Oct 2 at 8 AM.

Those of you that get Comcast SportsNet Chicago can catch the latest episode of Windy City Poker Championship at 8 PM Central Sunday night.

This week's newsbites:

• WSOP ratings were reportedly up 11% this year through four weeks of Main Event shows.
  
• UK PokerNews.com had an interesting interview with Eddie Hearn of Matchroom, the major British poker TV producer.
• There's a report that PokerStars's North American Poker Tour will finally be announced in October.
  
• 2 Months $2 Million updates: KRANTZ made an interesting post about 1) how they had to negotiate with the production company to get enough time to play poker and 2) how the chronology of the show was altered from real life. The opportunity opened up for Ansky by the show was apparently moving to DeucesCracked, the training site founded by KRANTZ.

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Ante Up for Africa on CBS

CBS will be airing the Ante Up for Africa tournament which ran before the EPT Monte Carlo over the next two Saturdays, the 19th at 1:30 PM and the 26th at 2:00 PM.

The next Poker After Dark is a tourney featuring Chris Ferguson, Howard Lederer, Doyle Brunson, Daniel Negreanu, Phil Ivey, and Phil Hellmuth.

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This week's newsbites:

• Most of the details about High Stakes Poker season 6 have emerged, other than the lineup: they'll film 13 episodes starting November 11 and air them starting in February.
  
• There is a new largest pot in TV poker history: $1.1 million. It happened during the filming of Million Dollar Cash Game season 4 (spoilers), which will air on Sky Sports (we don't get it in the US) in January 2010.
  
• Norman Chad was on the September 4 Ante Up podcast. We get some humor, his opinion that the viewers don't care about poker, how he got the job, some information about the production process, how he gets criticized for his commentary (notably comments about Josh Arieh), etc.
  
• Someone sued Face the Ace for copying his idea. There are similarities, e.g. choosing pros from behind doors, and his idea dates back to at least 2007, but Full Tilt claims they've been working on the idea since 2005 according to Pokerati.
  

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Face the Ace Saturday, 2 Months $2 Million Moves

There's a new episode of Face the Ace on Saturday at 2 PM on NBC. We're promised that it will be more like a game show this time, with "improvements" such as the audience rushing the stage during all-ins (1, 2).

2 Months $2 Million moves to Wednesdays at 8 PM on G4. This Sunday they're showing a marathon of the previous episodes starting at 9 PM.

The European Cash Game 2 will stream live from Poker Channel Europe on Monday the 14th starting at 7 AM.

Poker After Dark's terrific cash game lineup continues next week.

The last episode of Sam's Game has aired.

This week's newsbites:

• The International Poker Players Association hopes to get the championship event of their mixed-game tournaments televised.
  

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Blockbuster Poker After Dark Cash Game

Poker After Dark returns next week with a blockbuster cash game featuring 4 of the most exciting players in the world, Tom "durrrr" Dwan, Patrik Antonius, Ilari "Ziigmund" Sahamies, and Phil Ivey, plus Howard Lederer and Eli Elezra. The game runs for two weeks at 2:05 AM Tuesday through Saturday (late night Monday through Friday) on NBC.



Heartland Poker Tour returns for its fifth season next week. It airs on local channels and satellite, so you should check an online programming guide for the time/channel in your area.

EPT Live is streaming EPT Barcelona next week: a TV table airs Tuesday at 6:30 AM and the final table airs Wednesday at 8 AM.

This week's newsbites:

• The Caesars Cup added four players (Doyle Brunson, Jennifer Harman, Patrik Antonius, and Ilari Sahamies) and revealed it's odd format (mostly "doubles" matches where players alternate streets or hands).
  
• 2 Months $2 Million star Dani "Ansky" Stern is moving on from Poker Savvy, the training site he worked for, to pursue unspecified opportunities opened up by the TV show.
• The Sports Legends Challenge was postponed amid allegations of unethical behavior.
  
• Rounders House promises to be the first poker reality show online, with streaming video of players in a house 24 hours a day (press release).
• Pool player Blair Thein is trying to fund a show that combines poker and mixed martial arts with his sport.
  

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