Poker Player Documentary: Nick Schulman

Poker player Nick "The Takeover" Schulman is the subject of this week's episode of the MTV documentary series World of Jenks. I thought it was worth a half hour of my time. You can watch it below or in the usual places.

World of Jenks - MTV Shows

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iPhone Poker, For Real Money, Finally Here

iPhone poker with real money has finally arrived with Switch Poker. They're giving away free iPads and iPod Touches to players.

Real-money iPhone poker hadn't arrived before now because Apple won't allow real-money poker rooms in its App Store and it won't implement Flash (which most online games use) in its mobile devices. Apple has good reason to dislike Flash: it's resource intensive, running slowly on cell-phone processors, and causes a lot of crashes. That meant that Switch Poker had to find another way to reach iPhone and iPad users, however. Their solution was to create a web application written in HTML and JavaScript, which browsers can understand. That means you can play not only your iPhone, iPad, or Android phone but also on your computer's browser.

The games on Switch Poker are 6-max  and heads-up no-limit Hold 'em with stakes from 1/2¢ with a 20¢ buyin on up. They plan on adding other games later. The software is simple, lacking basic things like pre-action buttons, but otherwise perfectly playable and improving. You can even multitable: click the lobby button on the upper left, join another table, and then move among them by clicking the table icons on the left side (which indicate when the action is to you). They offer various payment options through Moneybookers as well as Neteller, but there are no US-friendly deposit options. 

Open an account and give it a try.

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Cash Game on Poker After Dark

For the next two weeks Poker After Dark will be showing a new cash game featuring Tom “durrrr” Dwan, Patrik Antonius, Gabe Kaplan, Eli Elezra, Alan Meltzer, and David “Viffer” Peat. The minimum buy-in is $150,000 with $300/$600 blinds and a $100 ante. Read NBC's preview.

PokerStars's The Big Game is back today (preview video below). PokerStars's Million Dollar Challenge season 2 is already underway; you can catch episodes you missed at PokerStars.tv. Heartland Poker Tour season 6 is also underway. You can find times and channels for all the shows currently running new episodes in our poker on TV schedule.



If you missed it, the Nightline feature about online poker did eventually air and can be watched online.

This week's newsbites:

• Fox Sports Net will continue airing the World Poker Tour for seasons 9 through 11. Season 9 premieres in January. The show will feature pre-final-table action and Kimberly Lansing will be anchor. Sexton and Van Patten continue their roles.
• WSOP ratings are down 16% this year.

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