Tue, 03/29/2011 – 01:25 – PokerPages Staff

Online high stakes cash game sensations Tom ‘durrrr’ Dwan and Patrik Antonius will be giving their first ever paid poker lessons next month.

The talented duo have been recruited by fellow Team Full Tilt Pro Brandon Adams for their unique expert insight.

Adams has recently developed a new coaching site and Dwan and Antonius will make use of video-audio technology to teach two lucky poker players for an hour one-on-one.

Adams, who is also a Harvard professor, spoke of his admiration for Dwan and Antonius earlier this week.

“Tom is simply the most innovative mind in poker, and many of the best players of his generation have publicly credited him as being the leading influence in their poker development.”

“Patrik is probably the second biggest winner in poker over the last decade. By results, Patrik and Phil Ivey are the best internet poker players on the planet.”

Adams admitted that those interested will have to pay a high price for their services with the bidding set to take place on Adams’ Twitter account.

The current highest bidder, which is set to start at $3,000 with increments of $100 thereafter, will be updated on the account.

Dwan and Antonius will instruct the two players on the expertinsight.com website on April 18 and 19. The proceeds will be donated to the Morris Jeff Community School.

Fri, 03/25/2011 – 20:08 – PokerPages Staff

The PokerStars North American Poker Tour is set to return to the small screen next month with coverage of the stops to air on ESPN2.

Action from the NAPT legs in the Bahamas, Mohegan Sun and Los Angeles will begin on Monday April 18.

Joe Stapleton and James Hartigan will provide the commentary, replacing regular duo Lon McEachern and Norman Chad who take a brief hiatus before the 2011 World Series of Poker coverage returns later this year.

The first episode, which will air at 10pm (ET), features action from the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure Super High Roller Final Table. A second episode will air directly afterwards at 11pm (ET).

The elite $100,000 buy in event attracted 38 of the world’s finest players with Team PokerStars Pros Daniel Negreanu and Eugene Katchalov, Andrew Lichtenberger, James Obst and Dan Cates among those riding the final table bubble.

Coverage from the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure Bounty Shootout Final Table will air a week later in the same two hour time slots.

The Los Angeles Bounty Shootout and Mohegan Sun Bounty Shootout will the follow in later episodes and the final episode will air on May 16.

The 2011 PokerStars NAPT Mohegan Sun Main Event is set to kick off in Connecticut on April 9. The final table will play down to the wire on April 13.

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