NBC's Poker After Dark began its fourth season this week. This time, however, the show featured high-stakes cash games with $200/$400 blinds a minimum buy-in of $100k and a maximum of $250k instead of a "winner take all" tournament.The first table included 21-year-old Tom "durrrr" Dwan, Phil Hellmuth, high-stakes player Mike Baxter, Allen Cunningham, Cirque du Soleil CEO Guy Laliberté and cash-game pro David "Viffer" Peat. Apperantly NBC wanted to recreate the fireworks shared between Dwan and Hellmuth during the National Heads-Up Championship when Dwan's pair of 10's cracked Hellmuth's Aces sending the 11 time braclet winner of on a Phi11-like tantrum.
Leeann Tweeden (pictured above..ouch!), made her debut as the program's new host. Tweeden's career highlights include being a Playboy lingerie model, an FHM cover girl, a longtime correspondent on the The Best Damn Sports Show Period and the honor of being named among the top Hooters Girls of all time.
The new format was inspired by GSN's High Stakes Poker which was pulled off the air due to incredibly high ratings for the network. Thank goodness now GSN can show more episodes of the low rated Press Your Luck and Card Sharks instead. Good job GSN it's not like ratings mean anything. (Idiots)
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