Fri, 04/22/2011 – 14:31 – PokerPages Staff

PokerStars.tv is an online service that provides live coverage and video blogs from the biggest tournaments in the world.  Viewers can check out on the latest videos on the PokerStars.tv homepage.  There is also a wide range of channels covering all facets of poker, as well as a regular weekly schedule.

The week’s PokerStars.tv scheduled programming includes Monday’s Online Poker Show, which is aired on the Online Action channel at 18:00 ET.  It is a weekly cards-up show from the Sunday Million tournament with commentary by Nick Wealthall, James Hartigan and David Tuckman.  

LAPT action hits the schedule on Tuesdays at 05:30 ET.  LAPT Season 3, shown on the LAPT channel features highlights from the series, with David Tuckman leading the commentary.

There is more cards-up action on Thursdays at 05:30 ET with EPT 7 Barcelona.  Shown on the EPT channel EPT 7 Barcelona airs the latest action from the Casino Barcelona.

And on Friday at 05:30 at UKIPT Season 3 hits the screens.  Aired on the PokerStars.tv UKIPT channel, the show features brand new highlights, starting with the Champion of Champions.  

PokerStars.tv also features online channels covering all aspects of poker.  They include The Poker Star channel where Australian hopefuls, hoping to be the next big name in poker, compete against each other to achieve their dream. 

The Big Game channel shows daily action from The Big Game, hailed as the next generation of high stakes cash poker.

Meanwhile, it is not all deadly serious on PokerStars.tv.  The Fun Stuff channel shows the top poker players away from the tables in their more lighthearted and crazier moments.

Fri, 04/22/2011 – 14:55 – PokerPages Staff

The week’s TV poker begins at 2.00AM on Monday morning with ESNPC’s coverage of the 2009 WSOPE Main Event in London (all times are EST).  Coverage continues at 2.00AM on April 26th and 27th, 1.30AM on Thursday 28th and Saturday 30th, and also at 2.30AM on April 30th.

If you want to see some of the biggest and best poker players on TV struggling to keep tells at bay and beads of sweat away from their brows, you just have to tune in to NBC’s superb high-stakes, winner-takes-all weekly tournament, Poker After Dark.  This week’s players are Patrik Antonius, Tom Dwan, Eli Elezra, Gabe Kaplan, David Peat and Alan Meltzer; the cards start to fly at 2.05AM on Tuesday 26th and again at the same time of April 27th and 28th.  At 1.01AM on Sunday May 1st, you can catch a wrap-up of the week.

For fans of another must-watch high-stakes poker tournament – High Stakes Poker on GSN –just tune in at your choice of shows starting every hour on the hour between 3.00PM and 11.00PM on Saturday April 30th, and between 7.00PM and 10.00PM on Sunday.  Like Poker After Dark, this show just has to rank as one of the very best of the week’s poker programming highlights – poker on TV just doesn’t get better than these first rate front-runners.  Watch the pros on High Stakes Poker put up hundreds of thousands of their own dollars every week; with big names like Daniel Negreanu, Doyle Brunson, Patrik Antonius and Tom Dwan taking part regularly, you won’t be disappointed.  

Put your feet up, study every nuance and move, and enjoy.