Poker Superstars Championship - Super Bowl Sunday on NBC
This should be a nice diversion before the football game. Wicked line-up of players here, just a murderers row of no limit warriors. (Sadly no Daniel Negreanu...)
POKER CHAMPIONSHIP TO INCORPORATE KICKOFF COUNTDOWN CLOCK
Following football, NBC Sports will present an unprecedented poker challenge, the inaugural "Poker Superstars Championship," the grand finale of the all professional, invitation-only poker tournament, in which the winner will walk away with $1 million, at 4 p.m. ET. The tournament offers the largest-ever poker pot on network television.
NBC Sports again will incorporate a "Countdown to Kickoff Clock" throughout the broadcast to assist viewers.
Last year, poker made its network TV debut on NBC opposite the Super Bowl pre-game programming. The event garnered a 2.3 national rating, making it the highest-rated poker show in history.
Eight elite professionals – Doyle Brunson, Johnny Chan, T.J. Cloutier, Barry Greenstein, Gus Hansen, Phil Ivey, Howard Lederer and Chip Reese – posted $400,000, a record high buy-in, to compete against their top peers in a game of No Limit Texas Hold 'Em for a total purse of $3.2 million. Collectively, this group has more combined wins, earnings and notoriety than any other group of players in the history of poker. Their combined poker earnings top $100 million.
"With eight of the most compelling figures in the history of poker playing for $3.2 million, and poker continuing to gain in mainstream popularity, this event should be the most watched poker program of the year," said Jon Miller, Senior Vice President of Programming, NBC Sports.
Matt Vasgersian calls the action, while Erick Lindgren, 2004 player of the year, offers analysis. Professional poker player Evelyn Ng provides reports and interviews players as they are eliminated.
POKER CHAMPIONSHIP TO INCORPORATE KICKOFF COUNTDOWN CLOCK
Following football, NBC Sports will present an unprecedented poker challenge, the inaugural "Poker Superstars Championship," the grand finale of the all professional, invitation-only poker tournament, in which the winner will walk away with $1 million, at 4 p.m. ET. The tournament offers the largest-ever poker pot on network television.
NBC Sports again will incorporate a "Countdown to Kickoff Clock" throughout the broadcast to assist viewers.
Last year, poker made its network TV debut on NBC opposite the Super Bowl pre-game programming. The event garnered a 2.3 national rating, making it the highest-rated poker show in history.
Eight elite professionals – Doyle Brunson, Johnny Chan, T.J. Cloutier, Barry Greenstein, Gus Hansen, Phil Ivey, Howard Lederer and Chip Reese – posted $400,000, a record high buy-in, to compete against their top peers in a game of No Limit Texas Hold 'Em for a total purse of $3.2 million. Collectively, this group has more combined wins, earnings and notoriety than any other group of players in the history of poker. Their combined poker earnings top $100 million.
"With eight of the most compelling figures in the history of poker playing for $3.2 million, and poker continuing to gain in mainstream popularity, this event should be the most watched poker program of the year," said Jon Miller, Senior Vice President of Programming, NBC Sports.
Matt Vasgersian calls the action, while Erick Lindgren, 2004 player of the year, offers analysis. Professional poker player Evelyn Ng provides reports and interviews players as they are eliminated.
Comments
i dont have a tvguide :frown:
a piece of the pie and some tv time :biggrin: :biggrin: :biggrin: how sweeeeeeeeet
?? NBC SuperBowl Ad revenue? doesn't Fox have the Superbowl this year?
About the 1 million prize, how does that make sense? You have 8 players and a $3.2 million prize pool, so do all places pay or what? I mean only $1 million for first leaves over $2 million for 2nd, 3rd, 4th, etc. and so on.
What was up with the production? I did not like how they did not update the winning chances. One player would have 84 and other 9...where is the other 7%? And did they have a mic by the chip stacks....
But other than that it was nice to see some poker today. First time I had a chance to see Phill Ivey actually play some hands and i liked his game. Love the way he just looks so focused.
The only thing that was weirding me out was this $400k buy-in, for a 1 mil pay off? And then at teh beginning, they said there was preliminary rounds? How that work? The players were alotted different stack sizes, so there must have been more than 8 guys. I wonder how the rest of the payouts work? Anyone have an idea.?
Me too with my favourite 3 players, except for Doyle I was also very happy to see Ivey play some cards. Seems to me the trend with Gus is once he gets a chip stack in front of him, it's nearly impossible to take him down. Doyle sure pumped his stack huge, I was so dissapointed to see him go, he made a big mistake though, a huge reraise would have a very similar effect to moving all in on Gus without putting it all at risk, if he was up against anyone else but the ONLY guy that could bust him it's different.
Gus 'the hatchet man' hanson takes them all out
coming to NBC in May 2005 ?????
The prize pool confused me, too. I have the same questions about number of entrants, how long these particular players had been playing, why first is 'only' one million dollars, etc... I think it was pretty irresponsible of the production team to let this important information slip through the cracks. I mean, what kind of tournament pays 2.5Xbuy-in to first place? Even a 10-player SNG pays 50% of the prize pool....
Gus was great, he played his game and had everyone off theirs! I can't wait for the Gus wannabees to come out of the woodwork and lose their chips... to me :redface:
oops posted in wrong thread :redface:
my 2 cents
More that one dead money?