Wed, 08/03/2011 – 01:38 – PokerPages Staff

FSN continued its coverage of Season IX of the World Poker Tour at the weekend with action from the showpiece World Championship. The $25,000 event, which featured Team PokerStars Pros Daniel Negreanu and Eugene Katchalov, played out at the Bellagio in Las Vegas.

PokerStars Caribbean Adventure Main Event champion Galen Hall led the way at the final table of six. The poker pro locked horns with Farzad Bonyadi during one of the first hands of the episode after calling down a pre-flop shove with A-10. Bonyadi had Hall crushed with A-A and the board offered no help as Bonyadi doubled through to 2.33 million chips.

Bonyadi then picked off a triple barreled bluff from Roger Teska. Teska fired 125,000, 350,000 and 650,000 bets post-flop with complete air but could not force his opponent off a top pair of Kings. Bonyadi snared the 2.76 million pot.

Justin Young was the first player to depart after running his A-J into Hall’s A-K. Young had insta-called a pre-flop shove from Hall but could not find any salvation on the 4-3-5-10-6 board as he collected a $225,654 share for his 6th placed finish.

Tony Gargano joined Young on the rail during the final hand of the episode. The dominant Scott Seiver called down a 2,020,000 shove from Gargano with A-K. Gargano only had a 30 percent chance to remain alive with K-J and failed to connect with the A-3-8-6-4 board as he landed a $278,749 sum for his deep run.

For all of the results from Season IX of the World Poker Tour visit the PokerPages Tournament Database.

Tue, 04/26/2011 – 01:07 – PokerPages Staff

With the start of European Poker Tour in San Remo this month PokerItalia24 has a whole host of poker television to get you in the mood. This week sees a series of re-runs of the excellent La Notte del Poker (Poker Night) at 18.40 to 19.45 each evening. Saturday between 19.25 and 20.10 also has the Pokerissimo show, a new programme where players qualify online to take part in a head to head competition and a chance at the house jackpot.

Poker fans in the UK and Ireland can get a good deal from their favourite game with a repeat of Channel4oD’s, Full Tilts Late Night Poker’s very first series.  The first episode feature Vicky Coren, John Tabatabsai, Tim West, Barney Boatman, Andy Black and Benjamin King. Here egos, cards and jackpots all clash in classic late night poker. You can also catch up with developments on PokerStars Caribbean Adventure series during January’s tournament in the Bahama’s sun. Strong commentary by Jesse May and Phil Hellmuth as play nears the end of the $400,000 contest.

If you tune in to some of Europe’s television channels you can see some of the best poker matches around.  A mix of classic matches, live matches and competitions from all around Europe can be seen.  The PokerChannel Europe is a great place to see some of these matches.  This week, you can see PokerHeaven TV and the PKR Tournament live, and Poker After Dark will also be repeated.