Poker and other shows Monday 9/20 through Sun 9/26

[Easy E]

Man, you people are getting spoiled!

USA television schedule results below are based on Eastern Daily Savings Time (EDT)- filtered from the TV Guide listings. Check your local provider to make sure you will actually get these at the times listed.
Shows may be followed by their Comcast channel (East Coast) and then the station letters.
"PDT??" means Yahoo listed this time as Pacific Daylight Savings time, but it's not always accurate. Just ??? means I adjusted from the PDT time.

I am marking the "new" poker shows with asterisks *** in front- I didn't have time to pretty things up this week (i'm tired!)

SPECIAL ESPN RERUN WARNING- Other than Tuesday night's original broadcast of the WSOP tournaments, all reruns posted are subject to change at ESPN's whim. Plan accordingly. Here is the current planned original run schedule: http://espn.go.com/eoe/wsop/schedule.html

WEEK'S HIGHLIGHTS- The Poker Superstars Invitational Tournament show has the first half of Tournament #2 branch, Round 1 on Sunday 9/19
ESPN shows a new tournament that occurred post-2004 WSOP- The Tournament of Champions. Additionally, on ESPN Classic, they start showing some of the old WSOP shows from the 90's (thanks, kevmath, for detailing this in your post) See the WSOP before there were lipstick cameras… or fabricated hands! Not to mention the antics....
Also, they are replaying the $10K championship shows in consecutive blocks between The Deuce and ESPN, starting Monday afternoon at 4:00.

The Ultimate Poker Challenge continues with their preliminary tournaments

Non-poker: Las Vegas (with James Caan) is back with their new season. [ Didn't have time for much else, sorry]

POKER SHOWS

Sunday 9/19
(whoops, missed it!)

Monday 9/20

4:00 PM World Series of Poker: Main Event ESPN2
Repeat of #3
4:00 PM??? Poker Superstars Invitational Tournament FOXW2
Repeat of Sunday's Semi-Final #1, second half
5:00 PM World Series of Poker: Main Event ESPN2
Repeat of #4
6:00 PM World Series of Poker: Main Event ESPN2
Repeat of #5
7:00 PM World Series of Poker: Main Event ESPN2
Repeat of #6
8:00 PM World Series of Poker: Main Event ESPN2
Repeat of #7
9:00 PM World Series of Poker: Main Event ESPN
Repeat of #8
10:00 PM World Series of Poker ESPN
Repeat of #9
11:00 PM World Series of Poker ESPN
Repeat of #10 (final table)


Tuesday 9/21

** 12:00 AM 1993 WSOP ESPNC
The first in a run of early WSOP shows (so I’m marking them as "new")
12:00 AM PDT??? Poker Superstars Invitational Tournament FOXW2
SF1, second half again?
6:00 AM PDT?? Poker Superstars Invitational Tournament FSW
6:30 AM Riding High WAM!e
"…Meanwhile, Ingrid gets mad when she finds Max playing poker with the guests"
11:00 AM World Series of Poker ESPN2
Repeat of Part #9
12:00 PM World Series of Poker ESPN2
Repeat of Part #10
1:00 PM World Series of Poker ESPN
Repeat of Part #8
2:00 PM World Series of Poker ESPN
Repeat of Part #9
3:00 PM World Series of Poker ESPN
Repeat of Part #10
6:00 PM??? Poker Superstars Invitational Tournament FSW

**** 8:10 PM World Series of Poker: Tournament of Champions ESPN
[The super-secret 10-player invitational freeroll tournament for $2 million, winner-take-all. Now we can finally discover if it was the butler with the candlestick in the parlor….]
[ Get THIS respect for our favorite tournament winner: Included: Doyle, Howard, Johnny, Daniel, Annie, Phil I, TJ, Phil H, "and the 2004 Main Event champ" (!!!). And we have a mystery player-to-be-allowed-to-announce, evidently…. Spooky stuff! ]

11:00 PM Malcolm in the Middle: Poker WTXF
"Malcolm strategizes with his dad in a poker showdown" (strategizes?!?!? Such a high falooten word for use in a poker game)


Wednesday 9/22

**12:00 AM 1994 WSOP ESPNC
11:00 AM World Series of Poker: Main Event ESPN2
Repeat of show #7
12:00 PM World Series of Poker: Main Event ESPN2
Repeat of show #8
1:30 PM World Series of Poker: Tournament of Champions ESPN
Repeat of Tuesday's show
9:00 PM World Poker Tour TRAVEL
Repeat of 2004's San Jose's Bay 101 Shooting Stars of Poker


Thursday 9/23

12:00 AM World Poker Tour TRAVEL
Repeat of Shooting Stars of Poker
*** 12:00 AM 1995 WSOP ESPNC
11:00 AM World Series of Poker ESPN2
Repeat of show #9
12:00 PM World Series of Poker ESPN2
Repeat of the final table
6:00 PM World Series of Poker ESPN2
The final table again
7:00 PM Gambling Games---Beating the House DSC
"Examining games of chance, including poker [casino poker games, or POKER?!?] for strategies… also, interviews with professional poker players…"
9:00 PM Celebrity Poker Showdown: Winner's Round 2 BRAVO
Repeat of the second 2004 "championship" table


Friday 9/24
12:00 AM World Series of Poker ESPN2
Repeat of the final table
12:00 AM Celebrity Poker Showdown: Winner's Round 2 BRAVO
Repeating Thursday's repeat
2:00 AM Gambling Games---Beating the House DSC
11:00 AM World Series of Poker: Main Event ESPN2
Show #6
12:00 PM World Series of Poker: Main Event ESPN2
Show #7
1:00 PM World Series of Poker: Tournament of Champions ESPN
Repeated again
2:00 PM Poker Superstars Invitational Tournament CSN
Repeat of Sunday's semi-final finish?

Saturday 9/25
12:00 AM Celebrity Poker Showdown: Game 3 BRAVO
Repeat of 2004 show with Michael Ian Black, Star Jones, Norm Macdonald and others
1:00 AM Home Improvement: Luck Be a Taylor Tonight WPHL
" Jill's sister's marital problems disrupt Tim's poker game"
6:00 AM ?? Poker Superstars Invitational Tournament FSW
12:00 PM World Poker Tour: Storming Los Angeles TRAVEL
Repeat of 2003 show- Gus going for second WPT title
2:00 PM Celebrity Poker Showdown BRAVO
[I have NO idea what show this is, nor does Yahoo! TV show this listing- only TV Guide]
3:00 PM Celebrity Poker Showdown: Winner's Round 2 BRAVO
Repeat of this week's repeat
4:00 PM Poker Superstars Invitational Tournament CSN
Repeat of Tournament 1, semi-final #1, second half?
6:00 PM World Poker Tour: San Jose's Bay TRAVEL
[It's the week of Pete and Re-pete!]
6:00 PM Maverick FX
8:00 PM Honeymoon in Vegas CMT
The story-defining poker game between Nick Cage and James Caan

*** 11:00 PM Ultimate Poker Challenge WPSG
Tournament #5? of 23 preliminary tournaments.
NOTE that times vary by area and may change (a local baseball game pre-empted my viewing of last week's show)

11:00 PM ?? Poker Superstars Invitational Tournament FSW


Sunday 9/26

12:00 AM ?? Poker Superstars Invitational Tournament FOXW2
1:00 PM World Series of Poker ESPN2
Repeat of Show #1 of the $10K championship?
1:00 PM Maverick FX
2:00 PM ?? Poker Superstars Invitational Tournament FSW
3:00 PM Honeymoon in Vegas CMT
5:00 PM ?? Poker Superstars Invitational Tournament FSW

*** 9:00 PM Poker Superstars Invitational Tournament CSN
Tournament branch #2, Round #1, part one- everyone's back to the same stacks again, trying to "win" bonus chips for the second semi-final.


GAMBLING-RELATED SHOWS

Monday 9/20
*** 9:00 PM Las Vegas: The Count of Montecito NBC
The new season's premiere.

Wednesday 9/22

5:00 PM New York, New York Hotel and Casino TRAVEL
5:15 PM Owning Mahowny HBO2w
Canadian banker embezzles funds for his gambling problem, spends it in Atlantic City?
6:00 PM Rio Hotel---Las Vegas 26 TRAVEL
11:00 PM Vegas Challenge III TRAVEL
4 gambling pros compete on rotating casino table games


Friday 9/24
** 10:00 PM Dr. Vegas KYW
Pilot episode- Rob Lowe is a Las Vegas casino doctor


Sunday 9/26
4:00 PM Casino USA

[Kevmath]

Just a couple non-gambling show notes:

Las Vegas started their season last week (I forgot about it myself) and at 3:30 pm today on TLC, A Makeover Story: "Up the Ante" A poker player helps her friend, who's recovering from surgeries and four childbirths.

Kevin...

[Easy E]

<font color="green">Las Vegas started their season last week (I forgot about it myself) </font>
Hmmm... I thought the TV ad I saw said it premiered this week... oh well.

<font color="green">and at 3:30 pm today on TLC, A Makeover Story: "Up the Ante" A poker player helps her friend, who's recovering from surgeries and four childbirths. </font>

I saw that, edited it out. I didn't get the impression that the poker reference meant much of anything. Now, if someone watches it and it's someone famous....

[Kevmath]

n/m

[eyekast]

easy thanks for doing this you make life soooo much easier:)

[Easy E]

of course, ask the people in the Paul Phillips thread if they have the same opinion... /images/graemlins/grin.gif

[Easy E]

why they didn't use her name, I don't know... uncertainty makes it more likely for us to watch?

[Kevmath]

I'd think that the TLC audience isn't exactly the same audience that watches poker. Although when I saw the description for the show, the first person I thought of was Annie.

Kevin...

[rjc199]

Is it Annie who gets the makeover or her friend?

[Kevmath]

They both got a makeover.

Kevin...

[rjc199]

What were the results? How do you compare before and after?

[Easy E]

n/m

[Easy E]

assuming ESPN doesn't move it