With Phil Ivey reaching the 2009 WSOP Final Table as a member of the November Nine, the ESPN editors obviously will have gone back to their footage of these earlier days of the Main Event and squeezed every minute of his face out of that tape to show in these episodes. So, expect to see plenty of Ivey tonight as well as the poker brat Phil Hellmuth and Peter Eastgate. It also looks like Chris Ferguson, Greg Raymer, Kenny Tran and Bertrand "elKy" Grospellier, who held the chip lead for quite sometime during this part of the tournament, will also get some TV face time.

The episodes run every Tuesday night at 8pm ET and will continue through November 10, when the November Nine final table will air, and all will feature the signature commentary of Norman Chad and Lon McEachern.

If you want a chance to appear on ESPN at the 2010 WSOP Main Event, then start playing online poker tournaments at Bodog Poker now and rack up Tournament Leader Board points for a spot in the Monthly TLB Winners' Freeroll in January 2010 for your chance to win a Main Event prize package. The 12 Monthly TLB Winners in 2009 will play in a two-table six-handed Sit 'n' Go on Sunday, January 24th, 2010, at 3pm ET.  The top two players will each win a $12,000 Main Event prize package. For full details head over to the Poker Tournament Leader Board page.

"The WSOP is proud to call ESPN home for another nine years," said Jeffrey Pollack, President of Harrah's Interactive Entertainment and the World Series of Poker. "This long-term agreement ensures that our content will continue to reach sports fans around the world through every medium that matters."

WSOP content will be available to ESPN for the following platforms: ESPN, ESPN HD, ESPN2, ESPN2 HD, ESPN Classic, ESPN.com, ESPN360.com, ESPN Mobile TV and ESPN International outlets outside of the United States.

“We are very excited to continue our relationship with Harrah’s to deliver the largest, richest, and most prestigious gaming event in the world to fans across a variety of our platforms,” said Doug White, senior director of programming and acquisitions, ESPN.  “Poker continues to be a solid ratings performer for us and allows us to continue offering diverse programming to our viewers.“

So, to celebrate this momentous occasiuon, they will show the two most boring starting days of the 2009 WSOP tonight at 9pm ET. The only good thing about these starting days was the presence of Team Bodog online poker players Ryan "rjules12″ Julius, Patrice "hotmax9″ Libert, who spent most of the day seated next to poker legend Amarillo Slim, Robert "rmobley65″ Mobley, David "DARKHELMET13″ Lee, Jean-Yves "neophrak" Desmoort, Walter "Panicked" Wright and Patricia "MsSassy" Bickley.

See if you can keep an eye out for the Black and Red of Team Bodog among the sea of donkeys at the Main Event. Meanwhile, we'll be playing the "hey was that us?" game all night. Yipee.

Named the Inside Deal, the show debuts next Tuesday, August 4, and will be co-hosted by ESPN The Magazine contributor Laura Lane (super hot as a brunette), professional poker player and ESPN.com columnist Bernard Lee and ESPN.com poker editor Andrew Feldman.

The series runs for three months and will finish when the World Series of Poker Main Event final table does. To prepare viewers for the November Nine, they will interview and analyze each of the remaining nine competitors as well as offering never-before seen hands and features from the World Series of Poker broadcasts.

Throughout the series, fans will be able to submit questions to their favorite pros via email, Twitter and Facebook.  Fans will also be given an exclusive chance to participate in a sweepstakes where one lucky winner will experience the November Nine in a unique way.

The guest for the first show next Tuesday is Chris Moneymaker, the 2003 WSOP Main Event champion, with subsequent shows playing host to poker pros Daniel Negreanu and Joseph Hachem.

Of the 57 events that will take place during the 2009 WSOP only two of them will actually be seen on ESPN, the $40,000 buy-in Special 40th Anniversary event and the $10,000 WSOP Main Event. The other two events on the schedule are the Ante Up For Africa charity event and the WSOP Champions Invitational. So, it looks like the focus this year will be big names (poker and celebs), big money and big fields with any mixed games or smaller events completely missing.

Below is the full TV schedule lineup:

July 28 8:00 PM ET – Special 40th Annual $40,000 No Limit Hold’em
July 28 9:00 PM ET – Special 40th Annual $40,000 No Limit Hold’em
August 4 8:00 PM ET – WSOP Champions Invitational
August 4 9:00 PM ET – WSOP Champions Invitational
August 11 8:00 PM ET – Ante Up For Africa Celebrity-Charity Event
August 11 9:00 PM ET – Ante Up For Africa Celebrity-Charity Event
August 18 8:00 PM ET – Main Event Day 1A
August 18 9:00 PM ET – Main Event Day 1A
August 25 8:00 PM ET – Main Event Day 1B
August 25 9:00 PM ET – Main Event Day 1B
September 1 8:00 PM ET – Main Event Day 1C
September 1 9:00 PM ET – Main Event Day 1C
September 8 8:00 PM ET – Main Event Day 1D
September 8 9:00 PM ET – Main Event Day 1D
September 15 8:00 PM ET – Main Event Day 2A
September 15 9:00 PM ET – Main Event Day 2A
September 22 8:00 PM ET – Main Event Day 2B
September 22 9:00 PM ET – Main Event Day 2B
September 29 8:00 PM ET – Main Event Day 3
September 29 9:00 PM ET – Main Event Day 3
October 6 8:00 PM ET – Main Event Day 4
October 6 9:00 PM ET – Main Event Day 4
October 13 9:00 PM ET – Main Event Day 5
October 13 10:00 PM ET – Main Event Day 5
October 20 9:00 PM ET – Main Event Day 6
October 20 10:00 PM ET – Main Event Day 6
October 27 9:00 PM ET – Main Event Day 7
October 27 10:00 PM ET – Main Event Day 7
November 3 9:00 PM ET – Main Event Day 8
November 3 10:00 PM ET – Main Event Day 8
November 10 8:00PM ET – Final Table Preview Show
November 10 9-11:00 PM ET – Main Event Final Table

The good thing for you is that you can still get your face on TV courtesy of the Bodog Flight Club promotion. Qualify online for the WSOP and you can get a spot at the 2009 WSOP Main Event with the chance to win millions and for all of your friends to see it happen.

Event No. 2 – $1,500 buy-in No Limit Holdem – drew 3,929 players, the largest non-Main Event field in WSOP history, and among those players were some of the biggest names the poker world has to offer, several of whom made it through to the final table. Hinkle managed to best all of them, including poker pros Chris "Jesus" Ferguson, Theo Tran and David Bach, to win his first WSOP bracelet and the first-place prize.

This was just the beginning for Team Bodog, and next week on ESPN you will get the chance to see Team Bodog poker pros David Williams and Justin Bonomo seated side-by-side at the final table for Event No. 4 – $5,000 buy-in Mixed Holdem – which featured 2008 WSOP Player of the Year Erick Lindgren.

From there, and in the upcoming weeks on ESPN, there's Bodog poker pro Jean-Robert Bellande's second place finish in Event No. 54, in which he won $173,564, and fellow Bodog poker pro Evelyn Ng's three WSOP cashes, including an impressive deep run in the Main Event. All together, Team Bodog pros and qualifiers walked away with a combined total of $1,888,629 in winnings from the World Series in Las Vegas.

There are still chances to win a WSOP bracelet this year for yourself and if you want to join Team Bodog at the 2008 WSOP Europe then head over to Bodog Poker and check out how to qualify online for the WSOP Europe.

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.

Qualify online for the WSOP Europe, WPT and EPT all through Bodog Poker.

Last night, they grabbed Team Bodog's own Maria Ho to provide insight on the final table of Event No. 7 – $2,000 No Limit Holdem. The final table featured several high profile poker pros including the dominating force of JC Tran, Alex Bolotin, Theo Tran and Shannon Shorr. We managed to grab some pics of Maria on the set of the show, analyzing the play of those pros and representing Team Bodog very well.

The eventual winner, after a massive implosion by monster chip leader Tran, was Matt Keikoan, who walked away with $550,601 in prize money and a WSOP bracelet.

We know for a fact that there will be other Team Bodog members doing the color commentary for ESPN 360, so make sure to head over there and check out the coverage as the 2008 WSOP continues.

WSOP online satellites are still available in the Bodog Poker room where you can start on your way to qualifying for a $12,000 WSOP VIP Prize Package for as little as $1.50.

He's been fired by ESPN radio for saying that he hoped Senator Ted Kennedy "would live long enough to be assassinated."

"I'm very disappointed to hear that Senator Ted Kennedy of Massachusetts is near death because of a brain tumor. I always hoped Senator Kennedy would live long enough to be assassinated," Madden said on his ESPN Radio 1250 talk show, according to the Post-Gazette.

Kennedy was diagnosed with a severe brain tumor last week.

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