Poker After Dark Season 7: Big Names, Big Buy-Ins, and Big Drama

The seventh season of Poker After Dark will start in January 2011 with some of the biggest names in poker. Doyle Brunson, Phil Ivey, Tom Dwan, Melanie Weisner, and five episodes of cash games will be featured.

The show will air on NBC until 2014 and was filmed at the Aria casino. The seventh season of Poker After Dark was filmed at the Aria casino. The show was originally conceived as single-table 6-max tournaments with a $20,000 buy-in, but has since evolved to include high-stakes cash games and tournaments with buy-ins up to $200,000.

The season will open with a $100,000 buy-in tournament on TV on January 3, 2011. The most expensive tournament in the show's history will be contested by Phil Ivey, Tom Dwan, Phil Galfond, John Juanda, Huck Seed, and Erik Lindgren. The episode with a $50,000 buy-in is titled “Idol” and will feature Doyle Brunson against Erik Baldwin, Annette Obrestad, Andrew Lichtenberger, Melanie Weisner, and Tom Dwan. Five episodes of cash games will be featured, with four in no-limit hold'em and one in pot-limit Omaha. The buy-ins for the cash games will vary, with two episodes at $100,000, and two others at $150,000 and $200,000.