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Five Thoughts: We'll Do it Near-Live!

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Ben Lamb

The November Nine is going (near) Bill O'Reilly, Ben Lamb is the champ, Daniel Negreanu is keeping it real, and the NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship is busto.

As always, we are, d'uh, thinking!

1. Near-live is better than not live

Caesars Interactive Entertainment announced Sunday that the 2011 World Series of Poker Main Event final table will air near-live on ESPN, ESPN2, and stream online at ESPN3.com, on Sunday, Nov. 6, beginning at 11:30 a.m. PDT. For those of you who are inexplicably upset with this decision, I am going to argue that this is good for both the “Worldwide...

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That NBC turned down the Heads Up Championship is understandable, but who in fact "owns" the NHUC? Whoever owns it should pitch it to London via PartyPoker or PokerStars, with more seats going to online qualifiers. The more qualifiers, the higher the pyramid, with the pros and celebrities seeded into Day 2.

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10-18-2011 17:33

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Ben Lamb is not officially the player of the year yet. Both Chris Moorman and Shawn Buchannan can still overhaul him.

10-19-2011 10:24

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