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New Poker Show to Debut

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Today is Tuesday August 3rd, which means that a new poker show will debut from ESPN. The show will only air on ESPN.com and is titled “Inside Deal.” Bernard Lee is the host of the program and the series premiere of the show will feature 2003 World Series of Poker Main Event Champion Chris Moneymaker.

Andrew Feldman, the ESPN.com Poker Editor, and Laura Lane, the ESPN The Magazine columnist will also be a part of the program with Lee. Lee is overly excited about the debut of the show saying “This is a show that is needed in the industry and it’s unique in its time. It’s going to be a solid show with ESPN production value. It’s really going to start setting the standard for poker shows.”

The show will air each week on Tuesdays on ESPN.com for three months and will end with the final table of the World Series of Poker Main Event in November. The viewers of the show will be able to submit questions and comments to the show’s hosts and the show’s guests via email, Twitter, and Facebook while the show is airing.

The show is really the first of its kind, especially for ESPN.com, since they haven’t aired a poker-only show on their website before. They have aired live poker events on their network and fictional poker television shows on their network before but never on the ESPN.com website.

“With everything that goes on in poker, there is news every week. During the WSOP and leading up to the November Nine, there’s absolutely a market for this to be on television. There is an audience out there. Look at how many people watched last year’s Main Event. A live poker series would be a good lead-in to future ESPN shows,” Lee said.

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