Poker fans who missed the Season 3 launch of NBC’s Poker After Dark — featuring the first-ever true amateur on the show — get another viewing opportunity starting Monday night (March 3).

Ken Light, a micro-stakes online player who’s a grad student at Rutgers University, battles to the end against a super-strong lineup of Phil Hellmuth, Scotty Nguyen, Daniel Negreanu, Jennifer Harman and Mike Matusow.

When the show aired the first week of January, Light blogged the six episodes practically in real time exclusively on this Web site. His posts, describing strategy points and behind-the-scenes experiences, generated quite a response.

Those original posts and comments have been reorganized here for easy one-click reading all week long during the encore showing. Your fresh comments about the show are welcome!

– Russ Scott

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NEWS RELEASE

PHOTOS BELOW of Jerry Yang, Shannon Elizabeth, Don Cheadle, Jennifer Tilly, Daniel Negreanu, Mike Matusow and Scotty Nguyen

LAS VEGAS, NEV. (Feb. 20, 2008) – A field of 64 poker players, including top professionals and skilled celebrities, will converge on Las Vegas Feb. 28 – March 2 for the 4th annual National Heads-Up Poker Championship.

The event will be staged at the Caesars Palace Poker Room with pros and celebrities competing for a total prize purse of $1.5 million.
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NEWS RELEASE:

GSN, THE NEW NETWORK HOME OF THE WORLD POKER TOUR®,
ANNOUNCES SEASON VI TELECAST SCHEDULE

New Hostess Layla Kayleigh Joins Mike Sexton, Vince Van Patten
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LOS ANGELES (Tuesday, Feb. 12, 2008) — WPT Enterprises Inc. and its new network partner GSN announced today the sixth season television schedule featuring 23 two-hour World Poker Tour® (WPT) episodes.

The season premieres in its new time slot on Game Show Network on Monday, March 24 at 9 PM ET/PT kicking off with the Mirage Poker Showdown.
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Check out the two latest LuckyDog Poker columns, won’t you?

One tells how a college wrestler from Michigan who’s been selling insurance was able to defeat a pro-laden final table last month at the World Poker Open in Tunica, Ms. There’s a photo of winner Brett Faustman there, too.

The other answers readers questions about the impact of table image, getting started playing online, and, my favorite, what happened to Shana Hiatt on Poker After Dark. And yes, there are pics of Shana and her replacement, Marianela!

Enjoy!

As always, your poker questions and comments are invited for possible use in future columns. Just send them to russ@luckydogpoker.com.

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