Poker on TV Update: Million Dollar Challenge Today, Face the Ace Saturday

The last Million Dollar Challenge airs at 4:30 on Fox today. Note that it may run late as it's on after football. They're already running qualifiers for the next season.

The last Face the Ace runs on Saturday the 2nd at 2:30 PM on NBC.

The next season of Poker After Dark begins Monday the 4th with a tourney called Commentators featuring Howard Lederer, Gabe Kaplan, Joe Sebok, Ali Nejad, Mark Gregorich, and Kara Scott. New episodes will be in HD. The show airs at 2:05 AM on NBC.

CNBC has been running a special called CNBC Investigates: The Big Business of Illegal Gambling. Upcoming airings are Friday the 1st at 9 PM and Sunday the 3rd at 11 PM. It's also available for downloading or streaming from the usual places. The mainstream media rarely does a decent job with gambling, but you may find the middle and later parts of it worth watching. They include Jay Cohen at the 26-minute mark, the WTO decision at 33 minutes, the Absolute Poker/UltimateBet scandals at 40, and the prohibition vs. regulation debate at 50 minutes.

This week's newsbites:

• Montel Williams and his International Team Poker League are being sued by an investor.
  
• Poker After Dark was voted the 9th best show of the year by Baltimore City Paper.
  

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

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