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.

Tue, 04/19/2011 – 03:14 – PokerPages Staff

#5 Peter Eastgate, $11,326,226

Peter Eastgate was born in Denmark 1985, broke into the full time game in later years, quitting his economics course and quickly racking up millions online.  This allowed him into high stakes games where he excelled- and promptly started playing live, too.  He has won two main events in his short career and taken one WSOP bracelet.

#4 Erik Seidel, $11,530,256

Erik Seidel hails from Las Vegas and started out as a professional backgammon player.  A career stock market player, he quickly branched into poker and has not looked back since.

#3 Jamie Gold, $12,223,798

Jamie Gold from Mailbu, CA, is one of the game’s biggest winners.  Known for taking down the largest winnings ever at the 2006 WSOP tournament, Gold is an active and lively player at the table.

#2 Phil Ivey, $13,745,806

Phil Ivey is often known as the Tiger Woods of poker, although he himself says he does not deserve the comparison.  Phil is now 34, but won his first three WSOP bracelets at the tender age of 23.

#1 Daniel Negreanu, $14,140,104

Daniel is the poker player whose career earnings put him at the top of the all time list.  Starting out at the age of 21, Daniel took two first place finishes in the 1997 World Poker Finals at Foxwoods and has not looked back since.  Daniel also contributes heavily to PokerSchoolOnline, having written over 100 articles on the game.