Tue, 04/19/2011 – 04:11 – PokerPages Staff

The poker excitement continues on the screens around Europe this week as the spring season hits full tilt.  German television is leading the way with a week-long programming of the High Stakes Season 6 poker program.  This will be aired each morning at 6.00am and repeated an hour later at 7.00am on the Sport 1 channel.  There is also an episode of Das PokerStars on Program 7, featuring the best card play from current and past PokerStars tournaments, hosted by Sophia Thornalla on April 20th between 12.10am and 1.05am.

UK and Ireland poker fans should tune into Channel 4 where they can catch the latest installment from the European Poker Tour on Tuesday at 12.45am.  Then on Wednesday at the same time Channel 4 will be showing the latest in the PokerStars UKIPT Gallway tournament held earlier in the year as part of the UKIPT.

Wednesday on Channel 5 will give you the opportunity to see the Aussie Millions from Melbourne’s Crown Casino.  This premier Australian competition will be shown between 11.55pm and 12.55am.  All the big action poker thrills from down under.

As always the most widely available poker channel in Europe is the PokerChannelEurope providing coverage of the best tournaments and most exciting poker shows.  On Friday you can tune in across the continent to watch Season 2 of the European Cash Game at 9.00pm or and hour later in the evening there is the excellent Poker After Dark with cards and chat from international professionals in the winner takes all competition.

Fri, 04/15/2011 – 01:06 – PokerPages Staff

Poker After Dark hosted its first ever Pot Limit Omaha cash game session earlier this week which featured six of the finest proponents of the popular variant.

Patrik Antonius and Tom ‘durrrr’ Dwan were involved in the biggest pot of the episode, worth $240,000, after both players had called of their stacks post flop.

Antonius was ahead with his overpair of Kings and gut-shot straight draw but Dwan had numerous outs with top pair and an open-ended straight draw.

The turn and river were run twice and Dwan managed to spike a Jack to scoop the first half of the huge $240,000 pot.

The second run drew air for both players as Antonius locked up the remaining $120,000.

That exchange set the tone for the remainder of the episode and eight-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner Phil Ivey soon got involved with a flopped top pair.

Antonius, who was becoming increasingly aggressive, met Ivey’s all-in bet with second pair.

Ivey told Antonius, “You’re crazy” after making the call and harmless turn and river cards sent the entire $186,000 pot his way.

Brandon Adams was the next player to face off against Antonius after rivering a king-high flush.

However, a paired board had improved Antonius to a full house and Adams abandoned ship after a $57,000 bet from the Finnish pro.

Phil Galfond finally got involved in the action late on after flopping the nut straight on a 9-8-7 board.

Ivey, who had hit a ten-high straight, called down bets of $4,000, $9,000 and $24,000 before mucking his hand as Galfond shipped the $80,000 pot.