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World Poker Tour on GSN Schedule |
 As many people already know, the World Poker Tour has recently been released from Travel Channel and picked up by GSN, to be aired alongside High Stakes Poker, combining the two best poker shows on TV into one evening. The upcoming schedule for the new season has just been announced, featuring 24 two hour episodes of some of the best aired tournament poker on television.
Monday March 24th will mark the day of the first GSN WPT event, a broadcast of the Mirage Poker Showdown filmed in May of last year. The show will go on at 9 PM Eastern time, right after the already popular GSN poker show High Stakes Poker. That's some bang for your buck: the best tournament poker show on TV followed by the best cash game show on TV. I hope your cable package includes GSN!
The WPT spent 5 years on the Travel Channel in a strange sort of fit, and GSN is pretty excited about the possibilities of owning the show, since it much more distinctly fits their format. There will also be repeat broadcasts of each new show each week at Mondays at midnight and Sundays at 7 p.m. ET/PT.
Here's the schedule, as announced by GSN:
- March 24: Mirage Poker Showdown
- March 31: Part one of Bellagio Cup III
- April 7: Part two of Bellagio Cup III
- April 14: Legends of Poker
- April 21: North American Poker Classic
- April 28: Mandalay Bay Poker Championship
- May 5: Borgata Poker Open
- May 12: WPT Ladies Night V
- May 19: Turks and Caicos Poker Classic
- May 26: Gulf Coast Poker Championship
- June 2: WPT Spanish Championship
- June 9: Foxwoods World Poker Finals
- June 16: Doyle Brunson Five-Diamond Poker Classic
- June 23: Part one of the World Poker Open
- June 30: Part two of the World Poker Open
- July 7: Borgata Poker Classic
- July 14: L.A. Poker Classic
- July 21: WPT Celebrity Invitational
- July 28: Bay 101 Shooting Star
- August 4: World Poker Challenge
- August 11: Foxwoods Poker Classic
- August 18: WPT Ladies Championship
- August 25: WPT World Championship
Perhaps more interesting to you poker-philes out there is the addition of a new poker spokeswoman, following in the short but high bar set by previous WPT ladies Shana Hiatt and Sabina Gadecki. The new host is Layla Kayleigh, a model who's been featured in various poker related venues, as well as places like Maxim and so on. Check her out:
That should help a little having to stare at all those players' bad haircuts and pot bellies.
February 14, 2008 |
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