Poker After Dark

[GoldBoar]

Well, after only two episodes, NBC's "Poker After Dark" is my new favourite poker show. It has a home game atmosphere, though it is a 6-seat winner-take-all freezeout, which is enhanced by the fact that the commentators mostly SHUT UP so that we viewers can hear what the players are saying. It's also a full game broken into 5 one-hour broadcasts, so most hands played go to air, with minimal editing.

Check it out, NBC weeknights at 2am EST (after Carson Daly where I live) and on Saturdays at 1am EST (after SNL).

10 weeks are already "in the can", here are the lineups:
Week of Jan. 1
Seat 1: Gus Hansen
Seat 2: Phil Hellmuth
Seat 3: Shawn Sheikhan
Seat 4: Annie Duke
Seat 5: Steve Zolotow
Seat 6: Huck Seed

Week of Jan. 8
Seat 1: Mike Matusow
Seat 2: Gabe Kaplan
Seat 3: David Grey
Seat 4: Doyle Brunson
Seat 5: Dr. Jerry Buss
Seat 6: Daniel Negreanu

World Champions' Week: Begins on Jan. 15
Seat 1: Chris Moneymaker
Seat 2: Jamie Gold
Seat 3: Johnny Chan
Seat 4: Chris Ferguson
Seat 5: Doyle Brunson
Seat 6: Carlos Mortensen

Week of Jan. 22 *** Personally, I can't wait to see this one -- Tony G, the Mouth and the Poker Brat at the same table!
Seat 1: Sam Farha
Seat 2: Tony G
Seat 3: Mike Matusow
Seat 4: Phil Hellmuth
Seat 5: Phil Ivey
Seat 6: Andy Bloch

Week of Jan. 29
Seat 1: Phil Hellmuth
Seat 2: Jennifer Harman
Seat 3: Phil Laak
Seat 4: Erik Seidel
Seat 5: Antonio Esfandia
Seat 6: Doyle Brunson

Poker Analysts' Week: Begins on Feb. 5
Seat 1: Michael Konik
Seat 2: Phil Gordon
Seat 3: Howard Lederer
Seat 4: Chad Brown
Seat 5: Gabe Kaplan
Seat 6: Mike Sexton

Week of Feb. 12
Seat 1: Chris Ferguson
Seat 2: Clonie Gowen
Seat 3: Sam Farha
Seat 4: Gus Hansen
Seat 5: Ted Forrest
Seat 6: Tony G

Week of Feb. 19
Seat 1: Phil Ivey
Seat 2: Erick Lindgren
Seat 3: Jennifer Tilly
Seat 4: Patrik Antonius
Seat 5: Jennifer Harman
Seat 6: Phil Gordon

Week of Feb. 26

Seat 1: Mike Matusow
Seat 2: Allen Cunningham
Seat 3: David Benyamine
Seat 4: Barry Greenstein
Seat 5: Shawn Sheikhan
Seat 6: John Juanda

Ladies' Week: Begins on March 5
Seat 1: Clonie Gowen
Seat 2: Evelyn Ng
Seat 3: Dee Luong
Seat 4: Vanessa Rousso
Seat 5: Jennifer Harman
Seat 6: Cyndy Violette

The NBC site http://www.nbcsports.com/poker/511047/detail.html says 10 more matches will be taped in 2007, but gives no hints about when they'll be aired.

Check it out; hope you like.

[Ean8]

Yes, outstanding show! Record it and watch during sane hours ;)

[drb61573]

Yes, outstanding show! Record it and watch during sane hours ;)


that ain't no kidding. comes on at 2 or 3 am here. watched the first week and didn't care for it. only exciting part was watching Phil and Shawn going at it. I would hate to have watched it if they had showed every hand played

[freakydd]

that ain't no kidding. comes on at 2 or 3 am here. watched the first week and didn't care for it. only exciting part was watching Phil and Shawn going at it. I would hate to have watched it if they had showed every hand played

You might learn something if you watched every hand played. Get a TiVo!! Makes recording this show a lot easier :waytogo:

[drb61573]

You might learn something if you watched every hand played. Get a TiVo!! Makes recording this show a lot easier :waytogo:


i only wish i could afford tivo. I've ended up watching almost every show anyway.

I know more than anyone I need to learn how to better my play but I personally believe that the only way I'm going to learn more is actually play. I do enjoy watching most of these shows as I've watched repeats of almost every WSOP and US PC on espn and whatever other show out there that I can see. But that doesn't do much good when I can't question someone on a move that another made. Anyway hope you're enjoying the shows. I am as far as an entertainment perspective.

[--HONEY--]

I watched it the other night at 2 am got right to the H2H and ran out of time.. Whats with that? SO? who won?

GEEZ!! come now!

[Ean8]

Your pal, Daniel N, won, of course! It's a rerun of one from weeks back, BTW.

You can always watch on line at:
http://www.nbcsports.com/poker/feature1.html

[freakydd]

I watched it the other night at 2 am got right to the H2H and ran out of time.. Whats with that? SO? who won?

GEEZ!! come now!

It is on five mornings a week. Maybe if you would have watched the next episode you would have seen Daniel win.

Like I told another person in this thread, TiVo it!!! It makes things a lot easier :waytogo: