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Poker pro Nenad Medic won Event No. 1 of the 2008 WSOP, which will begin airing on ESPN tomorrow night. (Bodog Beat Image)

Now a week removed from the melee that was the 2008 WSOP and life has begun to return to normal, and part of that will involve us playing the "spot ourselves in the background" game when ESPN begins airing this year's World Series of Poker tomorrow night.

The WSOP episodes will air at 8 pm each Tuesday for the next 17 weeks; a total of 33 hours of coverage leading up to the semi-live broadcast of the "November Nine" at the final table of the 2008 WSOP on November 9 – 10.

The episodes begin with, not surprisingly, Event No. 1 – $10,000 Pot Limit Omaha World Championship – which featured a star-studded field and a stacked final table. Poker pros Andy Bloch, Kathy Liebert, Mike Sexton, Patrik Antonius, Phil Laak and Mike "SowersUNCC" Sowers all graced the felt of that final table with fellow poker pro Nenad Medic walking away as the new champion and $794,112 richer.

Next week's show will feature the largest non-Main Event field in WSOP history for Event No. 2 – $1,500 No Limit Holdem – which was won by Team Bodog's own Grant Hinkle.

You can play the game too, except you don't know what we look like, so it'll be more difficult for you to "spot us in the background." Just point at random people taking pictures and assume it's us. Wait, that's boring, so just yell at the TV a lot, maybe make it a drinking game. Done now.

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