Set your TiVo, new WSOP on ESPN starts Tues July 28th!

Harrah’s and ESPN have announced the broadcast schedule for the 2009 World Series of Poker.

Beginning July 28, ESPN will show two episodes every Tuesday night at 8:00 p.m., EST. The first event to be shown will be the Special 40th Anniversary No-Limit Holdem Event with a $40,000 buy-in. The other two special events selected for broadcast will be the WSOP Champions Invitational (Aug. 4) and the Ante Up For Africa Celebrity-Charity Event (Aug. 11).

ESPN’s coverage of the $10,000 buy-in No-Limit Holdem World Championship will start Aug. 18 and conclude with a two-hour special episode Nov. 10 at 9:00 p.m., EST, featuring the final table, now known as the “November Nine.”

These changes mean that ESPN will no longer show the other no-limit holdem tournaments with lower buy-in amounts, nor will they broadcast coverage of other games, such as Omaha, Seven-Card Stud or H.O.R.S.E.

Bump coverage begins tonight!!!

ive been waiting forever for this to air
im not sure what it is but i love watching poker on espn
i still like the replays where I know how every hand plays out
this year should be great

Yea, Raymer played great except for the 5's vs. 9's. blowup.

And that 2nd place guy played like one of the idiots at microstake internet poker, haha.

Do Norm and Lon cover the side events?

My damn cable wasnt working when it was on so my DVR didnt catch it

But next week is the champions invitational

I thought It was pretty entertaining, looked like Haxton didn't pick his spots very well and was just trying to get it in with a coinflip at best, but it was still a good heads up match, Raymer was playing so well to before he made that shove with the 9's.

I am so glad for something new to watch the classics are great but need something new

Something must have gone wrong. I have my DVR set for the WSOP as a season series. Nothing taped, maybe because the "original air date" says May something. I guess I'll have to catch the replay.

Got my dvr set thats for sure. I was actually able to go to las vegas when the main event was going on just to watch. I was there for the last 4 days. Recommend it to anyone watching it on tv is great but seeing it in person is something else. I sat around a feature table on day 6 i think it was. Dennis Phillips, Peter Eastgate, Joe HAchem, and kenny tran. Good time.

I might have to try this whole "one time" thing though, seems to be pretty effective.