Poker on TV Update: New PAD, $Million Cash Game S4, PCA Live Streams

Next week's Poker After Dark is a tourney, "Nicknames," featuring Annette Obrestad, Mike Matusow, Antonio Esfandiari, Erick Lindgren, Phil Laak, and Phil Hellmuth.

The Full Tilt Million Dollar Cash Game season 4 is airing in the UK and becoming available for downloading or streaming. The production quality is much worse than HSP or PAD (e.g. poor onscreen graphics), but it's a big game ($300/600 blinds) with great players that features the biggest pot in TV poker history. 

As mentioned previously, the PCA live streams are underway. The Main Event is one of the biggest tournaments in the world, and its final table streams Monday at noon on PokerStars.tv.

The Windy City Poker Championship is coming to Bright House Sports Network in Florida and Cox Cable's CST.

This week's newsbites:

• Someone talked to Sam Farha about why he no longer plays on High Stakes Poker: ... now that people can see his hole cards and figure out how he plays, the game has gotten harder. So, as he put it (and I quote) "It's bad for my game to be on TV."
•  Hellmuth and Negreanu say that ESPN is filming the PCA. It could be a mistaken assumption based on the same production company that does the WSOP filming the PCA, but it looks likely to me right now that ESPN will be the NAPT's broadcast partner.
  
• We've written many times about how cash games are more popular with viewers than tournaments. The latest poll on 2+2 shows the widest margin I've seen so far: 91% prefer watching cash games vs. 9% for tournaments.
  

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