Wed, 01/26/2011 – 17:21 – PokerPages Staff

2005 US Poker Championship, No Limit Hold’em Championship
The 2005 US Poker Championship’s No Limit Hold’em Championship continues on ESPN.
This annual event takes place in Atlantic City, NJ and is hosted by Trump Taj Mahal.  The US Poker Championship is one of the major events in the poker tournament calendar.  Watch as Jimmy ‘Capo’ Caporuscio picks up the first place finish and walks away with $831,532.

High Stakes Poker
Poker fans should tune in to The Game Show Network to check out High Stakes Poker – a cash game with a minimum buy-in of $100,000.  Watch as the greatest poker professionals stake their own money in this high-risk event.  The players competing in this season are: Antonio Esfandiari, Barry Greenstein, Daniel Negreanu, Mike Matusow, Phil Ivey, Gus Hansen, Phil Hellmuth, Tom Dwan, Doyle Brunson, Eli Elezra, and Phil Laak.

World Poker Tour
The Game Show Network is currently airing the World Poker Tour.  Televised WPT major events are hosted by Mike Sexton and Vince Van Patten.

World Series of Poker Europe
The 2008 World Series of Poker Europe No Limit Hold’em Championship will be shown on ESPN.  This event was held at the Casino at the Empire, London, UK.  Watch as John Juanda earns his 3rd WSOP Gold Bracelet and £868,800.

2008 World Series of Poker, Main Event
Tune in to ESPN to catch Peter Eastgate winning his first gold bracelet in the 39th Annual World Series of Poker Main Event. This season sees Eastgate winning $9,119,517.

Fri, 01/28/2011 – 05:17 – PokerPages Staff

Phil Ivey and Doyle Brunson have spoken of their dismay at the decline in the high stakes poker cash game action on offer in Las Vegas.

The legendary duo were regulars on the scene that was thriving with big game action on a regular basis only a few years ago.

However, Ivey admitted that those days are in the past in an interview earlier this week.
 
“There are still games in Vegas. Just not as many as there used to be. Four or five years ago you could count on there being a game four or five nights a week. Now there’s probably a game one or two nights.”

The ‘Big Game’ was the most popular high stakes game on offer. Elite players would buy in for around $200,000 before playing stakes up to $4,000/$8,000.

Phil Ivey believes the death of Chip Reese, who was considered to be the heart and soul of the scene, signaled an end to the scene.

“Once Chip Reese died it was pretty much over. There is really no big game [in Las Vegas] anymore, except for during the World Series or when a tournament is in town or something like that.”

77 year-old Doyle Brunson admitted on his latest blog that his home town is not the ideal place to play live poker anymore.

Brunson attributed the change to the rise of internet poker, tournaments being held worldwide and the current state of the economy.