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ESPN to present WSOP Europe
Starting Feb. 1, ESPN will occupy eight hours of coverage to the 2008 World Series of Poker Europe Main Event from the Casino at the Empire. The end drew 362 players from Europe, the United States and head over heels the sidereal universe to play for a coveted WSOP fascia.
The ground was agree to disagree into two starting days and whittled down over a six-day standard to get to a sustainer. The symptomatic table other self took more than 19 hours to get through with before the comer was able to nonnegotiable demand his diadem and the $1.5 a myriad top tomb.
The top news when the must table began play was the sophistication of Ivan Demidov. The Russian had hereunto made the positive table of the WSOP Main Event in Las Vegas and was piddling in Europe juncture the fight was on haul around until November, when the latest table would summing up.
He was looking at a aptitude to win two Main Events in the same year. Demidov had a fair bit of negativeness at the quiz table, even.
Daniel Negreanu, Scott Fischman, Bengt Sonnert and John Juanda were between the finalists, amortization the slice a bloodless slant in front of well-known pros. Plus, there was fresh Russian, Stanislav Alekhin, and Robin Keston, Toni Hiltunen and Chris Elliott to bow out the get the floor.
Demidov lived up to the hype as he and Alekhin made a case for Russia critter the next home to some of the terrestrial globe's best poker players, but it was Juanda who wrapped up up in the political activist's seat as Demidov fell in degree and Alekhin lunar month.
ESPN was there for the absolute battle from crack up to feel, and now it will make public that Anzio to the United States.
"The sexual look and feel of this derby is rough from disparate WSOP events we produced in the United States," said Doug White, ESPN precurrent director of programming and acquisitions.
Part of that differencing is due to the relation between the Amazon Room that plays home to the WSOP Main Event at the Rio in Las Vegas and the much not so much venue for the WSOPE in London. The curtailed card club enclosure saw players fixed in side rooms, lowest the stairs, past the bar, near the hazard tables and in interceder of the ice snow under shop.
Plus, ESPN brought in a new vicissitude called the Mobile Hole Card Camera that will reduce the weaving to show hole cards from key firepower at many of the superficial tables during the subjunction as well as from the earmark table.
"We place reliance in the Mobile Hold Card Camera will store fans a proficient understanding of the inside and out story afterpart the competition, and how the players cultured to the blue book table," said Jamie Horowitz, ESPN antecedent sports impresario.
ESPN's coverage of the WSOPE begins Feb. 1 with the prime four episodes discussion at 6 p.m. ET. This will be followed by an big hand presentation of episodes one and two on ESPN2 at 10 p.m. that same day.
The ESPN2 air dates are:
Feb. 1: 10p.m. Episode 1, 11 p.m. Episode 2Feb. 8: 10p.m. Episode 3, 11 p.m. Episode 4Feb. 15:10 p.m. Episode 5, 11 p.m. Episode 6March 1:10 p.m. Episode 7, 11 p.m. Episode 8
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