Rescheduled Nightline Featuring Online Poker Pros Expected to Air Tonight

Tonight's Nightline, at 11:35 PM on ABC, features two online poker pros: Joe Cada and Blaine Brount, a 19-year-old student at the University of Illinois. It was rescheduled from the previous expected air date.

Update: you can watch it online now.

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Nightline Features Online Poker Pros Tonight

Tonight's Nightline, at 11:35 PM on ABC, features two online poker pros: Joe Cada and Blaine Brount, a 19-year-old student at the University of Illinois. Update 8/29: was postponed; I'll let you know when it airs.

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Poker on TV Update: WSOP to 9 PM

The WSOP moves to 9 PM today with day 2 action (preview).

PokerStars's Big Game, which has gotten some very good reviews, will be in rerun for a while after this week's episodes. Poker After Dark is in rerun till October 4. The next upcoming shows are World Team Poker and Heartland Poker Tour Season 6 in early September.

This week's newsbites:

• Fatty's is a proposed new reality show featuring Lacey Jones set in a fictional New York City underground cardroom. See their web site and ESPN's interview with cast members at the WSOP. 
• Poker News has pics of the recent taping of Big Game episodes for the fall.

Support the blog and get a free €3 at G2G Pros (US-friendly): just sign up through this link and email code PKB3 to Support@G2GPros.com. We've also updated our article on the very profitable Everleaf private tables.

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High Stakes Poker Season 7, Biggest Winners and Losers List for the First Six Seasons

Thanks to some 2+2ers for compiling the win/loss record for every player in the televised hands on the first six seasons of High Stakes Poker. The biggest winners and losers are:

Tom Dwan +1,756,500
David Benyamine +904,150
Doyle Brunson +782,300
Mike Matasow +609,350
Patrik Antonius +418,490
Phil Ivey +332,400
Eli Elezra +312,650
Barry Greenstein +277,600
Erick Lindgren +273,550
Mimi Tran +251,400
...
Mike Baxter -200,700
Todd Brunson -202,400
Jamie Gold -217,140
Daniel Alaei -222,300
Shawn Sheikhan -243,900
Antonio Esfandiari -273,050
Dario Minieri -328,400
Ilari Sahamies (Ziigmund) -362,150
Phil Galfond -406,300
Daniel Negreanu -2,182,850

The full list is here.

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Doubles Poker Championship Starts Airing

The Doubles Poker Championship replaces the Aussie Millions at 9 PM Saturdays on GSN this weekend. Teams of two players will play alternate streets (preflop, flop...). Poker PROductions produced 13 weeks of coverage of the $50,000-buyin event. Commentary is by David Tuckman and Brandon Adams with Lacey Jones serving as hostess. Many of the most famous players in the world are participating.

The WSOP, Poker After Dark, and The Big Game are also running new episodes now.

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This week's newsbites:

• The WPT will add a stop in the newly-opened Florida poker market.
• Daily Finance had a short article about the payments players get for wearing poker site logos on TV.
• The WPT is running a contest where you can get the chance to host a new segment on the show by submitting a video.
• Ratings for the first week of WSOP coverage were up 15% from last year.

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