Windy City Poker Championship returns to your television set this Sunday, April 8, 2012 at 7pm CDT with the first of four new episodes. We begin with a Heads Up Match featuring 2007 WSOP Main Event Champion Jerry Yang versus 2010 WPT Player of the Year, Faraz Jaka.
Following the head's up match, we'll jump into the $1500 buy-in Winner Take All event, featuring professional poker player Chad Brown, high stakes cash game player Rick Rahim, WPT Boot Camp instructor Nick Brancato, local players Paul Fisher and Meg Bertini, TV and Radio personality Richard Roeper, WGN and CSN Chicago's David Kaplan, Bust Out Poker Wear's Nikki Griffith, and Yang and Jaka return to the felt.
If you're in Chicago, or get Comcast SportsNet on your local provider (including national broadcast on DirecTv and Dish Network) you can tune in this Sunday night at 7PM Central. The show will also be broadcast on regional sports networks in the Washington D.C. area, the Mississippi gulf coast region, the West Coast, and in Florida. Check your local listings. The show will be available here as well, to stream over the interwebs.
Another sneak peak after the break...
Episodes 2-4 feature the the single-table Winner Take All, the deep stack Main Event final table, and a made-for-TV head's up match - WCPC Executive Producer Kirk Fallah versus Brancato, with live - at the table - commentary from yours truly.
Here's a sneak peak o' the Winner Take All:
Episodes will be available here, at the online home of Windy City Poker Championship - ChicagoPokerClub.net.
Comcast SportsNet can be found on the following channels (WCPC is broadcast in HD):
CSN |
CSN-HD |
|
AT&T Uverse |
741 | 1741 |
Comcast (Chicagoland) |
37 | 200 |
DIRECTV | 665 | 665-1 |
Dish Network |
429 | 429 |
WOW! | 38/65 |
220 |
RCN | 370 | 685 |