World Series of Poker Announces 2016 ESPN Television Schedule
The final hand of summertime to the 2016 World Series of Poker was coped only over a month ago at the Rio in Las Vegas and now we’re only weeks away in a position to relive all the excitement of this year’s biggest championship as ESPN starts its coverage of the WSOP on September 6 having back-to-back hours of the WSOP Circuit Global Casino Championship beginning at 10 p.m. eastern on ESPN2.
Coverage of the WSOP main event starts at 8:30 PM eastern on Sept. 11. The next installment highlighting this season ‘s poker world championship will start in 10 pm that nighttime. Episodes will mostly broadcast on Sundays, even though the program will change around a little, but each week there’ll be seven consecutive weeks comprising two episodes totaling two-and-a-half hours of policy. ESPN2 will sponsor the before all else six episodes, together with policy changing into the flagship station at on Oct. 2.
Monday, Oct. 31 the live coverage (using a 30-minute delay) of this last table will start at 8 pm on ESPN2. This night the rest players will reunite at 9 p.m. about the ESPN flagship station to perform down to a winner.
As has been the situation after all 2003, Norman Chad and Lon McEachern will maintain the commentary booth calling the actions for each the WSOP policy. They’ll be joined by Kara Scott, a veteran of this policy for many decades now herself, in addition to program analysts Antonio Esfandiari and Phil Laak.
Here is a look at the complete schedule:
| Date | Time (Eastern) | Event | Network |
| Tuesday, Sept. 6 | 10 p.m. | Global Casino Championship Episode 1 | ESPN2 |
| Tuesday, Sept. 6 | 11 p.m. | Global Casino Championship Episode 2 | ESPN2 |
| Sunday, Sept. 11 | 8:30 p.m. | Main Event Episode 1 | ESPN2 |
| Sunday, Sept. 11 | 10 p.m. | Main Event Episode 2 | ESPN2 |
| Sunday, Sept. 18 | 10:30 p.m. | Main Event Episode 3 | ESPN2 |
| Monday, Sept. 19 | 12 a.m. | Main Event Episode 4 | ESPN2 |
| Sunday, Sept. 25 | 8:30 p.m. | Main Event Episode 5 | ESPN2 |
| Sunday, Sept. 25 | 10 p.m. | Main Event Episode 6 | ESPN2 |
| Sunday, Oct. 2 | 8:30 p.m. | Main Event Episode 7 | ESPN |
| Sunday, Oct. 2 | 10 p.m. | Main Event Episode 8 | ESPN |
| Sunday, Oct. 9 | 8:30 p.m. | Main Event Episode 9 | ESPN |
| Sunday, Oct. 9 | 10 p.m. | Main Event Episode 10 | ESPN |
| Sunday, Oct. 16 | 8:30 p.m. | Main Event Episode 11 | ESPN |
| Sunday, Oct. 16 | 10 p.m. | Main Event Episode 12 | ESPN |
| Sunday, Oct. 23 | 8:30 p.m. | Main Event Episode 13 | ESPN |
| Sunday, Oct. 23 | 10 p.m. | Main Event Episode 14 | ESPN |
| Sunday, Oct. 30 | 8:30 p.m. | Main Event Final Table | ESPN |
| Sunday, Oct. 30 | 11 p.m. | Main Event Final Table | ESPN2 |
| Monday, Oct. 31 | 8 p.m. | Main Event Final Table | ESPN2 |
| Tuesday, Nov. 1 | 9 p.m. | Main Event Final Table | ESPN |
| Sunday, Nov. 20 | 9 p.m | Main Event Final Table Encore | ESPN |
