Las Vegas, NV (PRWEB) November 22, 2010

Great news for poker fans! POKER PROductions is proud to announce that they have reached an agreement with NBC Universal that will extend Poker After Dark via the year 2014. They are also pleased to announce that the seventh season of the hit late night show lately concluded filming at the beautiful new Aria Resort and Casino at the multi-billion dollar City Center complicated in Las Vegas, and that The Aria will be the host venue for the show through 2013. The new season will begin airing on NBC the week of January 3, 2011.

In all, thirteen weeks of new shows will be presented over the course of 2011, and the emphasis will be on money games. Because money games had been introduced back in Season four, they have proven to be quite well-liked with viewers and this season will function a lot more money games than ever prior to. All of these games will take spot over a two-week period, and most will be no-limit hold’em. But two weeks will also be devoted to Pot-Limit Omaha, with a lineup that must make fans of that game ecstatic!

Two of the no-limit hold’em cash games will have a minimum $ 100,000 acquire in. Those playing in a single game will be Mike Matusow, Chris Ferguson, Michael Mizrachi, Brandon Adams, Peter Jetten, Jean-Robert Bellande, and Phil Hellmuth, even though Hellmuth, Andy Bloch, Huckleberry Seed, Antonio Esfandiari, Annette Obrestad, and Justin Smith will play in the other.

One of the other no-limit hold’em games will have a heftier buy-in of $ 150,000. Competing in this game will be Eli Elezra, David Peat, Olivier Busquet, Phil Laak, Greg Mueller, and Howard Lederer. The final no-limit hold’em game will be a $ 200,000 minimal get-in, and will see high-stakes money game pros Phil Ivey, Tom Dwan, Patrik Antonius, David Peat, Eli Elezra, and David Oppenheim each seeking to pad their bankrolls at the others’ expense.

The PLO game will have a $ 100,000 minimum acquire-in, and will feature Phil Ivey, Tom Dwan, Brandon Adams, Brian Hastings, Phil Galfond, Patrik Antonius and Jared Bleznick. Those familiar with the nuances of Pot-Limit Omaha may well suspect that with this lineup many rebuys could take place, and to that finish their suspicions would be right.

Because there are more cash games, there will only be three freezeouts this season. One particular is dubbed “Wish List,” where Mike Dappen of Redwood City, CA, who won the Howard and Suzie Lederer Charity Poker Tournament benefiting the Boys and Girls Clubs, plays against Phil Hellmuth, Mike Matusow, Jennifer Harman, Erica Schoenberg, and Chris Ferguson in a $ 20,000 acquire-in winner-take-all match.

Another freezeout is known as “Idol,” and will see the legendary Doyle Brunson compete against five of the greatest young players in Eric Baldwin, Andrew Lichtenberger, Annette Obrestad, Melanie Weisner, and Tom Dwan. This match attributes a $ 50,000 get-in resulting in a $ 300,000 very first prize.

Leading off the new season beginning on January three, 2011 will be “Large Heat,” a $ 100,000 purchase-in freezeout with $ 600,000 going to the winner. This match showcases six of poker’s biggest stars in John Juanda, Erick Lindgren, Phil Ivey, Huckleberry Seed, Tom Dwan, and Phil Galfond. Look for the action in each this match and in the “Idol” match to be particularly intense with so a lot income on the line.

The air dates for the remainder of this season’s action have not but been determined, but once they are, they will be posted at http://www.nbcsports.msnbc.com/poker. Complete player bios and previous PAD records of most of the players are posted there as nicely, and the remainder will be added in the quite close to future.

Leeann Tweeden will as soon as once more serve as the show’s host, and Ali Nejad will offer limited commentary. For the PLO game, Nejad will also be joined in the booth by a specific guest commentator.

As viewers of Poker Following Dark have come to anticipate, this season is filled with some great poker, high drama, a lot of laughs, established fan favorites, some intriguing and entertaining new players, and its share of eyebrow-raising behavior. Without having question, it is 1 of PAD’s very best seasons ever, and viewers will not want to miss it.

This press release was written by Dennis Oehring, who serves as the Public Relations Coordinator for the firm POKER PROductions

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