PAD - Hellmuth Bashing, hehehe

Here's a good reason to stay up until 3:05 am !

This week's Poker After Dark sched says:

Week of May 4
(Hellmuth Bash Cash Game I)
Phil Hellmuth, Kenny Tran, Phil Laak,
Antonio Esfandiari, Tom Dwan, Bob Safai

The following week it's Hellmuth Bash II

New TV Show - Face the Ace

from www.bluffmagazine.com

The company that produces NBC’s
Poker After Dark will mix everyone’s
favorite game with reality television
when Face The Ace premiers this summer.

Poker Productions, the company responsible
for the late night hit for NBC, is betting
that poker fans nationwide will tune in to
Face The Ace when the poker reality show
debuts in August. Hosted by Steve Schirripa
(”The Sopranos”), the show will center on
contestants drawn from online qualifying
tournaments who play heads-up no limit
hold’em against poker pros.

Each contestant will start off by choosing
one of four doors, behind each of which lies
a pro player. If the contestant wins his
match against the first pro, he’ll have to
make a choice: take the money and run, or
let it ride and play against another pro?
Beating three pros in a row will be worth
$1 million, but a loss means a trip home
empty-handed.

NBC Universal TV executive VP Jerry Petry
told Variety that the network had picked up
an initial run of seven episodes, with the
option of ordering more if the show succeeds
in its Saturday afternoon time slot.

“There’s nothing like it on the air right now,”
Petry said. “This will attract the core poker
fans who watch it on our network but will
also open it up to a new audience of people
who like game shows and aren’t necessarily
poker fans going in.”

In addition to a different format - the players
will play against pros, not other amateurs -
Face The Ace will also have the benefit of
being one of the big four television networks
with its national audience. Poker fans will
get their first taste of the show on
Saturday, August 1, at 9 p.m. ET

You can take a shot at qualifiing for the
show by entering freeroll tournaments at
Full Tilt. Look in the SIT N GO section
(not in Tournaments like 90% of the stories say).
They are tan coloured freerolls with 180
or 360 players.

In case you missed it, Joan Rivers

Here's a quick video of Joan Rivers
telling what she thinks of Annie Duke
and ALL other poker players on
Celebrity Apprentice.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fAevP8aZVs

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