WSOP Main Event Airs on ESPN Tuesday Night
August 9, 2010
ESPN will begin airing the 2010 Main Event tomorrow at 8:00 p.m. ET. As usual, Lon McEachern and Norman Chad will co-host the event. This week features Mike “The Mouth” Matusow, 2010 Poker Players Champion and 2010 November Nine member Michael “The Grinder” Mizrachi, 2003 world champion of poker Chris Moneymaker, 2004 world champion of poker Greg Raymer, and many more.
Also expect to see Annette Obrestad, former main event champ Dan Harrington and Erick Lindgren, 2008 Player of the Year, not to mention the 7,000+ additional players who gave it a try at the 2010 WSOP this year.
Each week thereafter on Tuesdays starting at 8:00 p.m. ET until 10:00 p.m. ET, you can catch more 2010 WSOP Main Event action leading up to the November Nine finalists who will reunite at the Rio All-Suites on November 6th to vie it out for the title of world champion of poker and take home $9 million in poker winnings.
2010 World Series Main Event highlights can also be seen in the same time slot on ESPN HD and ESPN Mobile TV channels. Episodes will re-air later that same morning from 1:00 a.m. ET until 4:00 a.m. ET on ESPN 2 and ESPN 2 HD channels.
Episode 1 will feature Day 1A and Day 1B. Episode 2 will air on August 17th and will feature Day 1C and Day 1D. The remainder of the Main Event will air on Tuesdays between August 24th and October 5th from 9:00 p.m. ET until 11:00 p.m. ET. On October 12th, Day 7 of the Main Event will air from 9:30 p.m. ET until 11:30 p.m. ET, and the remainder of the Main Event will air between October 19th and November 9th between 9:00 p.m. ET and 11:00 p.m. ET.