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Poker After Dark Filming at Golden Nugget Casino

August 18, 2008

NBC announced today that their popular poker show, Poker After Dark is going to be filming their new 2009 season at the Golden Nugget Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas. The Golden Nugget Casino is located on Fremont street in what most people call ‘Old Vegas’. This part Of Las Vegas has remained mostly unchanged and the casinos in this area have been struggling because most of the tourists are a few miles away on Las Vegas Blvd.

Pokerstars Banner But it appears as if the Golden Nugget has no plans of going under and is coming up with ways to draw gamblers to them. They have recently held several news making major tournaments, including the Continental Airlines sponsored tournament where the winner received 21 million frequent flyer miles for taking first place and now the Poker After Dark show is going to be filmed in their new events center.

Filming is going to start on October 26th and finish on November 5th. Host of the show, Leeann Tweeden will be returning for another 60 new episodes. They are going to stay with their traditional format for the show of a six handed $20,000 dollar buy in winner take all but with more cash games.

The fifth season is going to begin airing on December 29th at 2:05am and each week’s tournament will air Tuesday through Saturday at the same time. The special one hour “Director’s Cut” episodes are still going to be recapping the week’s action and you can watch them on Sundays at 1am.

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    Written by Rebecca Rosales · Filed Under Casino News, Poker News, Poker on TV 

    Charles Barkley Scheduled to Play Charity Poker Tournament

    June 20, 2008

    Just a month ago Charles Barkley vowed not to gamble again, yet he is again headed to the poker tables. Barkley, a former NBA league MVP, Had Pledged not to gamble for the next couple of years, after being sued for not repaying $400,000 in gambling markers to Wynn Las Vegas casino.

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    Jason Kidd, point guard for the Dallas Mavericks, told reporters that Barkley is keeping to his word. “We were at a casino and he said he was on the wagon” Kidd said “He’s strong. He didn’t gamble.” This time however it is for charity.

    On July 2nd, during the 2008 World Series of Poker, Charles Barkley will be joining other celebrities in the “Ante Up for Africa” event.

    The event will raise money and awareness for the Darfur region of Sudan. Since the beginning of ethnic warfare in 2003 more than 2.5 million people have been displaced and 300,000 people have died.

    The buy-in for this tournament $5000 and players donate at least half their winnings to one of the two designated charities.

    Last year the tournament raised more than $500,000. The top two winners agreed to pool their $350,000 winnings and donate it to the cause. Barkley has promised to donate all his winnings this year.

    online poker Players Opinions:

    1. Is it really gambling if you don’t win? Or is it at this point just a donation to charity?
    2. Should the organization allow Barkley to play after having just made such a public declaration?

      Written by Cristina Lakey · Filed Under Celebrity Poker Gossip, Full Tilt Poker, High Stakes Poker, Online Gambling News, Poker News, Poker on TV, PokerStars 

      NBC Changes ‘National Heads-Up Championship’ Rules Of Auto-Invitation

      May 6, 2008

      In terms on televised poker events, the NBC National Heads-Up Championship is the current front-runner in regards to viewer-ship. With four years of success under their belt, the Heads-Up Poker Championship is changing up the rules as to who will be cordially invited to participate in next year’s premier poker tournament.

      The NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship attributes its phenomenal viewer-based success on the appearance and participation of some of the hottest names in the professional poker world. Top stars thus far include Phil Hellmuth (2005 champion), Ted Forrest (2006 champion), Paul Wasicka (2007 champion), and Chris Ferguson (2008 champion).

      NBC released a statement all past viewers of the tournament should be pleased to hear. The 2009 NBC National Heads-Up Championship will present an increased number of big names by changing up the automatic-invitational line up to include the prolific skills of the following top poker players:

      -Previous 5 National Heads-Up Poker Champions
      -Previous 2 National Heads-Up runners-up
      -Defending National Heads-Up semifinalists
      -Any player who has cashed at least once in each of the past 4 years of the National Heads-Up Poker Championship
      -Previous 3 World Series of Poker Main Event Champions
      -Defending World Series of Poker Main Event runner-up
      -Any player who wins multiple Bracelets in a single WSOP year (starting with 2008 WSOP)
      -Defending World Series of Poker Player of the Year
      -Defending World Series of Poker Heads-Up Champion
      -Defending World Series of Poker Europe Main Event Champion (21 or older)
      -Reigning World Poker Tour Player of the Year
      -Reigning Monte Carlo European Poker Tour Grand Final Champion (21 or older)
      -Reigning Card Player magazine Player of the Year
      -Reigning Bluff magazine Player of the Year
      -Reigning ALL IN magazine Player of the Year
      -Online and NBC qualifiers (1-3) (must be 21 or older)
      -2 x host venue qualifiers (2)

      Players who receive an automatic invite to the NBC National Heads-Up Championship do not get a free ride. They will still be required to pay the respective buy-in to enter the tournament. The only way to avoid entry fees is to win a seat via online poker qualifiers.

        Written by Donna Norman · Filed Under High Stakes Poker, Poker News, Poker on TV 

        Poker After Dark Jam Up Week Made History

        March 31, 2008

        Poker After Dark: David WilliamsJam Up week at Poker After Dark ended with two young guns heads up and it also started with a big bang by making a little history. This week featured 6 aggressive pro poker players, David Williams, Howard Lederer, Mike Matusow, Barry Greenstein, Antonio Esfandiari, and Eli Elezra taking a seat for the $120,000 winner-take-all tournament.

        All that was quick to change though as in the very first hand, Eli Elezra moved all in with “big slick” (AK) and was called by Howard Lederer who looked down and saw pocket aces. Lederer’s aces held and set off a chain of events that made this event even more unique.

        First, this elimination set an unbreakable record of fastest elimination taking that distinction away from Gus Hansen (6 hands). The second decision was announced that if Eli wanted back in he could “re-buy” for $20,000. Eli did and so this week’s tournament became a winner-take-all for $140,000.

        Another bit of history was made as Barry Greenstein; short stacked, moved all in with pocket jacks and was called by Antonio Esfandiari who had AK. A king on the flop put Barry in a hole that he couldn’t get out of and was eliminated in 6th place which ended Mike Matusow streak of four consecutive 6th place finishes. No worries though, Mike would start another streak.

        There was a bright spot for Mike the Mouth, as he won a side bet with Esfandiari. Howard Lederer re-raised a pot from the big blind and Antonio said it was a steal. Matusow said no and bet $5000 that it was not a steal. The two settled on $1000 and Lederer showed AK netting Mike a quick $1000.

        Then a Mikey blow up. He raises with pocket nines and gets re-raised by Eli Elezra with A8 suited. Flop comes 6h 8c 2c and Elezra bets - Matusow raises - Eli just calls. The turn brings the 2h and Mike bets again. Eli throws in a $10,000 bundle not saying a word. Mike FOLDS. Eli says why, I just called?

        After much chastising from everyone at the table, even asking the dealer what he thought, in which he said it was just a call since no raise was announced, Mike went down hill from there, eventually going out in 5th place.

        Later Mike professed that, “I am not blaming anybody, it’s my own fault and that was a big pot early in this thing and it really set the tone.”

        The tournament came down to two of the younger poker pros in the game, David Williams and Antonio Esfandiari aka “The Magician”. David had almost $115,000 chips versus Antonio with 25,000 when Esfandiari found AK and raised. David had Ad7d and put Antonio all in. David flopped a 7 but Esfandiari turned a king and was right back in the game.

        A few hands later though, it was Antonio all in with Ad5s and Williams calling with pocket sevens. The flopped gave Williams a set but Esfandiari a straight draw. David avoided the straight and won his first Poker After Dark event and $140,000.

          Written by Steve Vaughan · Filed Under Poker on TV 

          Full Tilt Fires Jonathan “Fieryjustice” Little For Violating T&C’s

          March 4, 2008

          Jonathan Little FiredWhat could have started with a simple question at poketfives.com forum involving Jonathan Little, known on Full Tilt Poker as Fieryjustice quickly escalated into a whole lot more, and eventually, the loss of his poker pro status at Full tilt.

          The man has 1227 SNGs played this month, it’s been 7 freaking days…..Is he on a mission to break all records for SNGs on FTP?????

          The inevitable conclusion:

          I don’t mean to make a big deal about nothing, but if this is true, then wouldn’t that qualify as Jonathan Little cheating?? I mean if people are playing someone in a 5K heads up match and they are not playing the person they think they are, that is totally unfair.

          In this case, it would be to their advantage assuming this buddy you speak of is a lot worse than Little. However, this would mean Little could also be playing under a friend’s account and people would have no idea who they are up against.

          Also, for people not aware of who Jonathan Little is, if they were to look up his pokerstars name on sharkscope, they would see he is down $115,000. Who wouldn’t want to take that match-up? Having a friend play, thus making you look like a totally fish, is definitely a form of cheating as well.

          Was followed up with the firing of Jonathan Little (“Fieryjustice”) as noted in a small locked forum post at the Full Tilt Forum by administrator TilterRick. In the post, Full Tilt states:

          Despite having a great year on the WPT, Jonathan Little is no longer affiliated with Full Tilt Poker. He violated the terms and conditions of Full Tilt Poker by allowing other players to play his account. While we encourage our pros to play as much as they can, we do not allow them to share their account with any other players…

          The online community is a buzz with a mixture of opinions from “he got what he had coming” to “he should be given another chance”. Many claim that it is common practice for Full Tilt pros to have friends playing on their accounts.

          So far there has been no word from Jonathan Little himself. After much online success, Jonathan won the 2007 WPT Mirage Poker Championship. He went on to have a very successful year in WPT events and has over $2 million in WPT cashes alone. He most recently made it to the quarter finals of the NBC National Heads Up Challenge before being eliminated by eventual champion, Chris Ferguson.

            Written by Steve Vaughan · Filed Under Full Tilt Poker, Online Gambling News, Poker on TV 

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