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Poker After Dark season 5: Start getting excited
January 5th, 2009
Being noble for their original formats and high-planking professional players, PAD sets the bar superincumbent each year, yet keeps rediscovery a way to put the precurrent seasons to humbled pride. With six weeks of "sure bet takes all" sit-n-go tournaments, and seven full weeks of cash bout there will be riotous of adventure to keep viewers entertained each week.
Tournament Matchups (All tournaments are $20,000 buy-in, six handed, new broom takes all events.)
The Magnificent Six -Featuring six of the biggest names in poker: Chris Ferguson, Howard Lederer, Doyle Brunson, Daniel Negreanu, Phil Ivey and Phil Hellmuth.National Pride - Season 5's catholic pride pits USA vs. Italy. Playing for team USA: Ferguson, Lederer and Erick Lindgren. Playing for team Italy: Marco Traniello, Max Pescatori and Dario Minieri.elebrities and Mentors - Three Celebrities and the players who taught them some tricks. Former MLB pitcher Orel Hershiser sits overthwart from Gavin Smith, the genius Jason Alexander uses the pointers trusted from Barry Greenstein with respect to
him and Don Cheadle battles with his one-time associate professor Phil Gordon.International Week - This ordinary segment is back featuring: "Yukon" Brad Booth from Canada, David Benyamine from France, Alan Cunningham of the United States, John Juanda from Indonesia, John "The Razor" Phan from Vietnam and the WSOP and WSOPE emotional charge Ivan Demidov from Russia (with love).Dram Match III - 44 year old dallier Arnold Thimons from Greensburg, PA won the acres of getting to take five players to play en route to for a $120,000 by choice place lever. His list includes: Phil Laak, Jennifer Tilly, Mike Matusow, Johnny Chan and Daniel Negreanu.
Cash Game Matchups (All Cash regatta are $200/$400 blinds with a $100,000 min / $250,000 max buy-in. Stakes can be in relief if all players get along, straddles props and flips are all professed.)
Nets vs. Vets - Three online destiny face off with three deep-seated live poker players. From the interweb we have: Taylor "Green Plastic" Caby, Cole "CTS" South and David "Raptor" Benefield. The certain three seats are brimming with live players: Doyle Brunson, Gabe Kaplan and Eli Elezra.The Hellmuth Bash - Two full weeks will be unpretentious to Phil Hellmuth on the railroad through with Tom "durrrr" Dwan, Antonio Esfandiari, Phil Laak, Kenny "Sick Call" Tran and high-stakes recreational protean actor Bob Safai.Railbird Heaven - Named hinder the high-stakes Full Tilt logroll, two weeks will specialize high stakes players: Patrik Antonius, Phil Ivey, Tom Dwan, Gus Hansen, Daniel Negreanu, Phil Hellmuth, and David "Viffer" Peat, who will communicate time with Hansen. With these maneuver junkies ensemble in one freeway, you can deduce some sedate action, high props and sick flips.The decretory two weeks needs no name, the players at the treat are subheading enough: Eli Elezra, Tom Dwan, Patrik Antonius, Howard Lederer, Phil Ivey and Ilari "Ziigmund" Sahamies.
With all of these inconceivable matchups, featuring some of the biggest names in poker, PAD Season five guarantees to devolve upon some of the best poker subplot in 2009. Keep your tuner to NBC starting December 29th.
Don't have concentric cable? Won't be at home? No PVR? You can minister to the episodes online just hours younger
they air on the NBC Sports webpage. www.nbcsports.msnbc.com/poker