Best Damn Poker Show to air in November

Only Hellmuth knows what devious plan he has for the next season of the Best Damn Poker Show.

UltimateBet announced last week that the second season of Best Damn Poker Show will begin airing on FSN Oct. 27.

The show has begun filming already with a PokerListings regular, Tony "TheTonz" Wind, as one of the participants. Wind announced that he'd been chosen in the PokerListings forum.

He is one of 18 poker players taking part in the Best Damn Poker Show battling to be the last player standing. During the show Phil Hellmuth and Annie Duke will take players under their tutelage to try to prove which one is the better teacher, while the players try to prove they're the better player.

The players were chosen for the show through a contest hosted by UltimateBet. The players competed for a spot by creating and submitting an audition video that highlighted why they deserve to be on the poker reality series.

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The videos went up on YouTube where poker fans could take a peek and see who the potential participants would be for the second season of the Best Damn Poker Show.

UltimateBet also hosted some online qualifiers which paid out spots on the show.

For the second season, UltimateBet shook things up a bit by also hosting a live audition in Las Vegas during the World Series of Poker. It gave producers the opportunity to check out thousands of talented Texas Hold'em fans who were in town for the tournaments.

Now the players will battle it out while Hellmuth and Duke also clash on who is the better instructor. In the end, only one player can remain standing, and only one tutor will triumph.

If history repeats itself, the show's winner could end up with more than just a few moments of fame on TV as well. On Aug. 15, UltimateBet signed Tracy Scala, the winner of the first season of the Best Damn Poker Show tournament.

For more information about the show or to get in on some online poker action, visit Ultimate Bet.

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