Poker After Dark returns this month

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NBC’s “Poker After Dark” series returns for a fourth season starting on Monday, July 14.

The first episode will feature online phenom Tom “durrrr” Dwan, Phil Hellmuth, Allen Cunningham, Cirque de Soleil CEO Guy Laliberte, and cash game veterans David “Viffer” Peat and Mike Baxter, according to pokernews.com:

PAD’s fourth season expands the show’s horizons. The debut episode of the upcoming season features high-stakes, no-limit cash game play as opposed to the series’ traditional freezeout format, wherein most of the weekly challenges offered a $120,000, winner-take-all prize to a single player.

The debut week’s new cash-game format has the players starting with blinds of $200/400, with, plenty of straddles and prop bets. The minimum buy-in is $100,000, the maximum $250,000, and the mimimum for rebuys is $50,000.

Whole thing here.

The first episode airs at at 2:05 a.m. Eastern on the evening of Monday, July 14 (technically starting on Tuesday morning).