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ESPN to Provide "Near-Live" Coverage of 2011 WSOP November Nine (UPDATED)
Caesars Interactive Entertainment announced Sunday that the schedule for the 2011 World Series of Poker Main Event final table has been changed to accommodate live tournament coverage by ESPN.
The action has been pushed back one day to Sunday, Nov. 6 at 11:30 a.m. PDT from inside the Rio’s Penn and Teller Theater in Las Vegas. Sunday's field will be cut to three players who will return on Tuesday, Nov. 8 at 5 p.m. to play down to a winner. In previous years, only the remaining two players returned for the final day of play.
The entire final table will air on ESPN and ESPN2 and stream online...
of course ESPN has got to get their money grubbing hands into it, haven't they screw up enough " ?live?" sports now they have to screw up live poker !?! What is next, they already screwed up pro football and most other sports with all their f--king ads and time outs so they can dictate how things play out!!!?!
10-17-2011 10:40
garygfonThis sort of live streaming is great. PokerNews should gather up all these Live Streams and make them available on a subscription basis. That would allow people to see the feed when their schedule allows, as opposed to the network times.
flintsword
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10-17-2011 12:30
flintswordThis will be the final November Nine. If ESPN is slowly moving to "Near-Live" broadcasts, then there's no reason to wait until November. I would guess they might wait a week or two, and then play it out.
10-17-2011 21:55
The action has been pushed back one day to Sunday, Nov. 6 at 11:30 a.m. PDT
Two things of note on that time:
1. DST (which Nevada doesn't observe anyway) ends at 0200 on that day, so what is the actual time?
2. TiVo guide data has coverage beginning at 1530 EST on ESPN2 only. Same time as ESPN3.com. 1530 EST is 1230 PST or 1330 PDT.
I hope it is just a case of whoever wrote the article is clueless about standard time vs. daylight saving time.
10-28-2011 14:21
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