2005 WSOP Tournament of Champions

Did you catch ESPN’s telecast of the 2005 WSOP Tournament of Champions on Christmas Eve? This is some great television for the poker fan. Crank up the TIVO and grab the next showing. ESPN is running the entire 3 hour telecast here and there, and also individual 1 hour blocks of coverage. Final table action included Hellmuth and Matusow, and they were in prime form, both in terms of their play and their antics. I can’t stand these guys for their behavior, but for some reason I always seem to end up rooting for them to win. Hoyt Corkins was also in the final mix, and since he and Hellmuth already shared some bad blood, that just added more fuel to the final table fire. Check out Cardplayer magazine’s coverage of the tournament, as well as some of the controversy away from the felt.