ESPN Announces 2007 World Series Of Poker Coverage (WSOP)

ESPN has announced a tentative schedule of World Series of Poker (WSOP) events to be filmed for later television broadcast.

The WSOP event itself will begin June 1 at the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas Nevada and will run through July 17 (click here to see a full schedule of events).

"We're delighted that ESPN is bringing even more depth to its already superb coverage of the WSOP," said Jeffrey Pollack, Commissioner of the World Series of Poker. "No one produces poker better than ESPN, and its powerful audience of sports fans will see all of the thrills, drama and excitement that make us so unique."

There will be more events and more broadcast days aired than were shown in 2006. There is also some flexibility built into the schedule. Currently the schedule shows thirty-two hours, which is ten hour more hours than in 2006.

Although the final schedule is subject to change, ESPN announced plans to expand its televised coverage of the WSOP Main Event to 16 hours.

There will also be 10 one-hour programs covering other bracelet events. The $50,000 HORSE mixed-game Championship will receive six hours of airtime and the format of the final table will include all five games of HORSE.

The schedule of events that ESPN plans to cover includes:

June 1, Event No. 1: Mixed Hold'Em World Championship, $5,000 buy-in.

June 2, Event No. 3: No-Limit Hold'Em, $1,500 buy-in.

June 3, Event No. 4: Pot-Limit Hold'Em, $1,500 buy-in.

OR

June 4, Event No. 7: Pot-Limit Omaha, $5,000 buy-in.

June 5, Event No. 8: No-Limit Hold'Em, $1,000 buy-in with re-buys.

June 8, Event No. 13: Pot-Limit Hold'Em, $5,000 buy-in.

June 17, Event No. 28: No-Limit Hold'Em, $3,000 buy-in.

June 18, Event No. 30: No-Limit Hold'Em Six-Handed, $2,500 buy-in.

June 19, Event No. 31: No-Limit Hold'Em Heads Up, $5,000 buy-in

OR

June 20, Event No. 33: Pot-Limit Omaha with Re-buys, $1,500 buy-in.

June 24, Event No. 39: HORSE World Championship, $50,000 buy-in.

July 1, Event No. 50: Pot-Limit Omaha World Championship, $10,000 buy-in.

July 6, Event No. 55: No-Limit Hold'Em Main Event, $10,000 buy-in.

PokerPages will have updated information about ESPN coverage of the 2007 World Series of Poker as more information becomes available in the coming months.

More information on the tournament is available at www.worldseriesofpoker.com.

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