Aussie Millions Cash Game Airs This Weekend

This weekend's Aussie Millions show is the first of the cash game episodes. It's a $500/$1000 no limit Texas hold 'em/pot limit Omaha rotation. The players are Tom Dwan, Patrik Antonius, Phil Laak, Chris Ferguson, Andrew Robl, Niki Jedlicka, and Jamie Pickering. See our taping updates if you can't wait for more details. It normally airs at 11 PM Saturday on Fox Sports Net, but, as always with Fox Sports, check a programming guide to find the time on your affiliate.

Poker After Dark is in rerun until May 4. Fox Sports is indeed running the Bellagio WPT tournament this week, though in at least one area it still hasn't aired in its entirety due to other shows running over.

This week's newsbites:

• Happy birthday to the poker boom! Six years ago last Monday the hole-card cam appeared in America with the first World Poker Tour broadcast. Poker started taking over the airwaves (notably on ESPN, which expanded its 2003 WSOP coverage in response), everyone started playing poker, and the so-called "fad" is still with us 6 years later.
  
• I wrote a micro-review of the 2009 Aussie Millions tournament coverage (much improved in my opinion).
  
• WPT insiders put their money where their mouth is: they own over 30% of the company's stock.
  

Updates to our online poker room reviews:

• Bodog (review), my personal ATM, added a no-download version (which even works on Macs) and their cashouts have been blazingly fast recently.
  
• Full Tilt Poker (review, rakeback) added stakes down to 1/2 cent NL hold 'em, lowered the rake at their lowest limits, cracked down on datamining, and got direct bank deposit/withdrawals working well.
  
• There's now a hand-history converter for the Merge Gaming Network (e.g. Carbon Poker; review, rakeback), which makes it one of my most-recommended places to play.
  

Check our poker on TV schedule for the list of shows regularly running new episodes.

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