Most Watched Television Show

Poker After Dark is a hugely talented game show organized by NBC (National Broadcasting Company) television network. After "high stakes poker", "Poker After Dark" is recognized as the best TV show. The format of this show is basically a 20 thousand dollars buy-in. This is a 6 player no limit Holdem tournament. Poker After Dark in brief is known as "PAD". This show is totally different from all other shows, because of two reasons: This show shows every hand played and it shows the blind structure.

When players get to know about every hand played by the other player, viewers will come to know about game play. Viewers who watch this television show can understand moves of poker players, and learn poker from them. Learning by watching is an extremely well versed practice. This is the reason why PAD has gained demand. Viewers who watch this television show will come to know, how players change their strategy in every stage of the game.

Blind starts with a 100xBB deep. This is the starting stage, and from this level the blind goes up. Free movement of blind shows there is plenty of room for players to play, turn/post-flop/river in early stages of the game. In weekend "poker after break" show reviews its previous five days game play. The winner of the pot will explain about strategy implied for winning the game. Even though Poker After Dark is a big hit, this show has one disadvantage. Sometimes poker players playing on this show take much time for deciding their hand. It's a slow paced show, so, only interested poker lovers would watch it late night.

Poker After Dark shows a new approach to viewers. It allows them to know about game play strategies of top poker players. First blind starts at 100 dollars and it slowly escalates. The commentary is taken care of by Ali Nejad's, and it's limited. This show was a great success in USA. Recently this show has got the award for the most viewed TV show.

The dream table is played by six players: Jennifer Harman, Mike Matusow, Phil Hellmuth, Daniel Negreanu, Scotty Nguyen and Ken Light.

Jennifer is the only woman who won the World Series of poker bracelet in 2000. She played Deuce to Seven No-Limit game. She has won her second bracelet in 2002 in a $5K Limit Hold'em game. Mike Matusow is a two time WSOP (World Series of Poker) bracelet winner. He won the first bracelet in 1999 and won the game again in 2005.

If there is any controversial poker personality then it's none other than Phil Hellmuth. He is the youngest WSOP winner. He has won 12 bracelets. Daniel Negreanu has won two world poker tour titles, and three bracelets of WSOP. He is known for taking a second chance in the poker game.

Scotty Nguyen has won four bracelets in WSOP. He was a main event winner in 1998. Ken Light has won in Poker After Dark after playing in fulltiltpoker.net. He is an amateur player. This poker show is ideal to watch at night. It starts at 1.05 am ET/PT and continues till 2.05 am. It's a late night show, but very interesting.

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