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ESPN's WSOP Coverage Review- 11-10-09
11-11-2009, ClearSpine
Finally! The night for which the entire poker world had waited. The playing out of the November Nine, and the crowning of the 2009 World Series of Poker Main Event champion. After an almost four-month hiatus, Phil Ivey, Darvin Moon, Eric...
A Closer Look at WSOP Finalists Cada and Moon
11-09-2009, Jennifer Newell
At 6am on the morning of November 8, the 2009 World Series of Poker Main Event final table found its two heads-up players. The biggest and most recognized no-limit hold’em tournament in the world played out in the Rio’s Penn & Teller Theater, and...
ESPN’s WSOP Coverage Review- 11/3/09
11-04-2009, ClearSpine
With only 18 players left, viewers looked forward to a night of coverage where there were only two tables to focus on, as the last nine eliminations were set to take place, leading to the highly-anticipated November Nine. With all the players...
Preparing for 2009 WSOP Final Table to Start November 7
10-30-2009, Jennifer Newell
After an exciting summer, poker players and fans were in a holding pattern for several months until they could find out who would claim the title of 2009 World Series of Poker Main Event champion. The nine final table players walked away with more...
ESPN’s WSOP Coverage Review- 10/27/09
10-28-2009, ClearSpine
And then there were 27. The final three tables included the universally acknowledged best player in poker (Phil Ivey), one woman (Leo Margets), one magician-turned-poker-pro (Antonio Esfandiari) and most importantly, nine combatants who were soon...
ESPN WSOP Coverage Review 10-20-09
10-21-2009, ClearSpine
With the final table just three weeks away, ESPN turned tonight to Day 7, and the final 64 players. Although Full Tilt Poker commercials that have been running on the telecast for the past two weeks have made it clear that Phil Ivey is one of the...
ESPN’s WSOP Coverage Review – 10-13-09
10-14-2009, ClearSpine
With less than one month to go until the final table of the 2009 Main Event, the tension was mounting and the number of players was dwindling, as ESPN began its coverage tonight. With 144 runners left and Day 6 still in progress, the focus remained...
ESPN’s WSOP Coverage Review 10-6-09
10-07-2009, ClearSpine
Tonight’s coverage began with the remainder of Day 5. The pre-show focus was on how many top pros and champions were still alive, and the featured table was loaded, with Jeff Shulman and Bertrand “Elky” Grospellier already sitting there, and...
ESPN’s WSOP Coverage Review- 9-29-09
09-30-2009, ClearSpine
With the bursting of the money bubble during last week’s telecast, it was time to start playing some serious poker. Tonight’s coverage took us to Day 5, and with many past champions and other top professionals still left in the field, would the...
ESPN’s WSOP Coverage Review - 9-22-09
09-23-2009, ClearSpine
This week, ESPN’s telecast moved on to Day Four, with the highly anticipated bursting of the money bubble. With many top name pros still left in the field, whom would they choose to be the focus of this week’s show? And would we begin to start to...
ESPN’s WSOP Coverage Review - 9/15/09
09-16-2009, ClearSpine
ESPN’s coverage tonight moved on to Day Three of the Main Event, the first time all the remaining players in the field played at the same time. The pre-show tease indicated that the focus tonight would be on Jeff Lisandro, who was going to win the...
ESPN WSOP Coverage Review – 9-8-09
09-09-2009, ClearSpine
After a highly entertaining two hours of coverage of Day 2A of the 2009 Main Event last week, featuring Jason Alexander and Greg Raymer doing their best poker vaudevillian act, ESPN turned tonight to Day 2B. Due to the lopsided registration of the...
Third Annual WSOP Europe Prepares for September 17 Start
09-06-2009, Jennifer Newell
For many poker players and fans, it seems as if the 2009 World Series of Poker only recently wrapped in Las Vegas, but in truth it has been nearly two months since the November Nine were determined. As players got some much-needed rest before...
ESPN WSOP Coverage Review – 9-1-09
09-02-2009, ClearSpine
The last two weeks of telecasts took us through the four days that made up Day One of the Main Event. The focus, not surprisingly, was on well-known professionals, such as Daniel Negreanu, Phil Hellmuth, and Mike Matusow. The only one of the...
2009 WSOP November Nine Make Sponsorship Decisions
08-30-2009, Jennifer Newell
It has been well over a month since the November Nine was determined at the Rio in Las Vegas, and one of the major points of speculation since then has been the sponsorship of each of the players. While the focus of most of the fans will be the...
ESPN’s WSOP Coverage Review – August 25, 09
08-26-2009, ClearSpine
ESPN’s coverage of the World Series of Poker moved to Days 1C and 1D of the Main Event. With the crowds for the two days greatly eclipsing those of the first two sessions, a number of questions hung in the air. Would the network spend any time on...
ESPN’s WSOP Coverage Review – August 18, 09
08-19-2009, ClearSpine
Over the next two months, ESPN will be setting up the stories that it hopes will play out for the November Nine, when the final table finally takes place. With two new episodes each week between now and then, all of them focused on the Main Event...
ESPN WSOP Coverage Review – August 11, 2009
08-12-2009, ClearSpine
With the dramatic reduction in the number of events ESPN chose to cover this year, it was a bit surprising to find that one of the ones that made the cut was not a bracelet event at all, but the Ante Up for Africa charity tourney. On one hand, the...
2009 WSOP Review: Successes Far Outweighed Failures
08-10-2009, Jennifer Newell
It has been nearly a month since the 2009 World Series of Poker found its November Nine and wrapped until the ESPN coverage catches up. The Rio hallways are now filled with random convention goers instead of poker players, and the poker world...
ESPN WSOP Coverage Review – August 4, 2009
08-05-2009, ClearSpine
ESPN decided to drastically curtail the number of WSOP tournaments it was going to televise this year, reducing the number of events to just three: The 40K no limit hold’em, the Champion’s Invitational and the $10,000 Main Event. In addition, they...