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.

For more news and information about the PokerStars NAPT and all tournament visit the PokerPages Tournament Database.

Tue, 03/22/2011 – 16:36 – PokerPages Staff

This week there is a full program of exciting, tense and surprising poker shows on across Europe. German television has a whole evening of poker lined up each weeknight from Tuesday on Sport 1. The iconic show Poker After Dark will be shown at 06.00, 07.00 and again at 17.30. There will be a Director’s Cut showing the parts that were missed from the original programs and the line ups will feature plenty of poker players on TV including the likes of Patrik Antonius, Daniel Negreanu and John Juanda.

On Monday 28th March, German Channel Arte will show a documentary called “That’s Poker” which covers the WSOP in Las Vegas and all the excitement and action that goes along with poker players in the world’s biggest live tournament. The show follows the likes of Luca Pagano, Isabelle “No Mercy” Mercier and World Champion, Joe Hatchem.

In the UK, Channel 4 continues their excellent provision of poker programming for poker fans with the coverage of the PokerStars European Poker Tour from Barcelona. The episode starts at 00.50 on Tuesday March 22nd and features Bertrand Grospellier, Noah Boeken and the British Poker star Liv Boeree.

The CNBC Poker show will be covering highlights from the high stakes tournaments in the Bellagio, Las Vegas and the Bicycle Poker Room in LA. All the nosebleed fun starts at 02.00 on the March 26th.

Poland’s Sport Klub channel has plenty of poker coverage with episodes from Face the Pro and on Tuesday at 04.25 you can follow the Full Tilt Aussie Millions tournament in Melbourne from the start of the year.