As the World Series of Poker Main Event Gets Underway The Poker Show Talks to Triple Bracelet Winner Jeff Lisandro and Checks in on the Progress of its Friends at the Biggest Poker Game on Earth

This week The Poker Show goes World Series crazy as the main event gets underway. Jeff Lisandro will be dropping in to talk about what is arguably the feat of the Series - his triple-bracelet victory, while presenters Jesse May and Matt Broughton will check in with Neil Channing, Andy Ward, and Marty Smyth as well as many others playing the main event.

World Series of Poker Main Event champion and Team PokerStars Pro Peter Eastgate is set to take on his 2008 opponent, and fellow team member, Ivan Demidov in a heads-up charity tournament held online at PokerStars.

The two first clashed last November during a 15 hour tournament , the longest Main Event heads-up match in WSOP history, over a prize of $9 million. Now, two days before the 2009 Main Event kicks off, the two will face-off against each other again, only this time it’ll be for charity.

Phil Hellmuth, the World Series of Poker bracelet record holder, recently released a new book entitled Deal Me In. The book is considered a “must read” for any poker player due to its nature. Hellmuth gathered 20 of his professional poker playing friends to reveal all of their secrets.