Notable poker pros will be meeting up with some of the top cash game players in the world to play $10/$20 each weeknight on Cake. (Image Courtesy CardPlayer)

Some of the biggest names in poker will be sitting down for regular $5/$10 and $10/$20 NL Texas Holdem cash games each night starting at 7pm ET. Regular turnouts for the ring game battle will include: Doyle Brunson, Hoyt Corkins, Mike Caro and more.

If you’re looking to test yourself against some of the most well-known poker players in the world at $5/$10 or $10/$20, log on and jump in. Anyone is welcome at the poker pro tables.

The action starts Tuesday, October 6, and will run nightly. Download the free poker software if you haven’t already and click on the Ring Game tab and then the Real Money, Texas Holdem and No Limit buttons. You will find the tables packed with pros highlighted in blue.

Liam Flood and Doyle Brunson at the English Poker Open. (Cake Poker Blog Image)

We caught a quintessential poker moment here at the English Poker Open today as European poker legend, Liam Flood, sat down with North American poker legend, Doyle Brunson. Without these two fine gentelmen it's unlikely that poker would have risen even close to the level of global popularity that it currently enjoys.

We have live video coverage of the EPO here on the Cake Poker Blog. Double click on the streaming video in the upper right section of the blog for full screen poker action from the Dusk Till Dawn Casino (pictured below) in Nottingham, England.

The 3-Day $5,300 NL Holdem tournament started today. Expect more updates as play continues from our own Lee Jones on the ground at the 2009 EPO.

The Dusk Till Dawn Casino plays host to the English Poker Open. (Cake Poker Blog Image)

Doyle Brunson will be showing young whipper-snappers around the world how it's done in the WSOP Champions Invitational on ESPN tonight. (Image Courtesy PokerRoad.com)

We completely understand why ESPN would choose the first-ever WSOP Champions Invitational to be one of the four 2009 WSOP tournaments that they covered this year. With a field composed of nothing but poker players who own a WSOP Main Event bracelet, how could the Final Table be anything but exciting?

The action starts at 8p.m. ET tonight with a pretty interesting final table including: Phil Hellmuth, Doyle Brunson, Carlos Mortenson, Robert Varkonyi, Jim Bechtel, Berry Johnston, Tom McEvoy and Huck Seed.

For those of you who didn’t follow the WSOP when it was happening live, we don’t want to spoil anything by revealing too much about it, but we will say this, the final three aren’t exactly dynamos of poker excitement. Good guys perhaps, but will they make for exciting TV? We’re a little skeptical. But then again, sometimes good poker itself is entertainment enough.

While you need one to get in, the WSOP Champion Invitational isn’t a bracelet event. The winner received a 1970 Corvette Stingray and the Binion’s Cup in honor of Jack Binion, the man credited with making the WSOP the richest poker tournament in the world.

For upcoming ESPN WSOP coverage we’ve got the complete 2009 WSOP TV schedule for your perusal.