Wed, 03/30/2011 – 01:37 – PokerPages Staff

FSN begins its coverage of the Festa Al Lago World Poker Tour stop on Monday 28th at 7.00pm. Further coverage can be caught at 9.30pm and 11.00pm on Wednesday 30th, 11.00pm on Saturday 2nd April and at 7.00, 8.00 and 11.00pm on Sunday. This is the kind of poker TV that helped ignite the worldwide poker boom – well worth a watch.

Fox brings you one of the week’s highlights every night from Tuesday 29th at 2.00am – PokerStars.Net’s “The Big Game.” Watch the biggest professional poker players on TV pit their skills against talented amateurs during this hour-long rollercoaster ride. Amateur Loose Cannon qualifiers have their $100,000 buy-in tab picked up courtesy of PokerStars – and they get to keep any profit they make. It’s justly billed as “the ultimate high-stakes TV cash show.”

NBC’s “Poker After Dark” begins just five minutes later on the same night – an annoying poker programming clash, which means you’ll have to record it or The Big Game if you want to see both. But it’s quintessentially excellent TV poker – a high-stakes, winner-takes-all tournament on every evening from Tuesday through to Saturday (with a weekly wrap-up on Sunday at 2.01am). This week, Las Vegas is the location where top poker pros compete for a $120,00 first prize. 

GSN’s “High Stakes Poker” begins every hour on the hour from 3.00pm to 11.00pm on Saturday 2nd April (and again on Sunday 03rd between 7.00pm and 10.pm), you get to see top pros gamble a minimum $100,000 of they’re own hard-won cash at a turbo-charged Texas Hold’em game. Regulars include top names like Daniel Negreanu, Doyle Brunson, Patrik Antonius and Tom Dwan.