‘Poker After Dark’ Cash Style

Poker After Dark is NBC’s fashionable late night poker series. Poker After Dark is a hit with the fans and usually consists of a tournament that has $120,000 in prize money. They take some of the world’s best player’s and then add some of biggest personalities and put them in a six person winner take all tournament. It is an invitation only event that happens every week in Las Vegas. Shana Hiatt is the usual host of the show and she follows the action and talks to the players. But this week they are changing the format and having a high stakes cash game. They tried it once before and are going to try it again. The minimum buy-in for this week’s game is $100,000 and the blinds are set at $200/$400 in a no-limit cash game.

There is quite the line up for this week’s cash game. In fact, it is one of the strongest line ups so far for the show. The six players are Howard Lederer, Patrik Antonius, Gabe Kaplan, Eli Elezra, Dee Tiller and the father of poker – Doyle Brunson. Dee Tiller is the only amateur at the table but a veteran at high stakes cash poker games. He is a Texas business man who calls himself “The Ten Pound Bass”. The other five are also regular high stake poker players who veterans of the largest cash games in Las Vegas including Bobby’s Room at the Bellagio.

The episodes will are at 2:05 am ET/PT on Tuesday and continue for the next five nights. Saturday will air the special directors cut following Saturday night live (actually Sunday morning 1am). The interviewer/hostess will be Leeann Tweeden.