When I’m in Las Vegas, I rarely head downtown. However, when my friend Lisa Wheeler asked me to host at the WSOB & (Phil) Budding Ivey Foundation Charity Event at the Golden Nugget’s Shark Tank, I was so there for the more-than-fun function. I knew the Nugget’s renovations would be nice since (this will be confusing) it’s owned by…. Landry’s Restaurants, which is owned by Tillman Fertitta… until he went public… but has since been buying up the stock… so now Landry’s is private again. I only know these things because Fertitta lives here in Houston and I read the Houston Business Journal (when I have breaks from watching Sponge Bob Square Pants).
The Golden Nugget announced today they will be hosting NBC’s Poker After Dark which will start dealing cards in October and airing in December. NBC’s Poker After Dark has secured NBC for their network. Again.
According to the Press Release:
The program will feature the world’s top pros, such as Phil Ivey, Daniel Negreanu, Doyle Brunson, Howard Lederer, Chris Ferguson, Erick Lindgren, Jennifer Harman, Gus Hansen and Phil Hellmuth fighting it out for poker supremacy in a mix of 6-handed, winner-take-all freezeouts and high-stakes cash games
Unless of course, Ivey, Lindgren and Negreanu get stuck on the golf course.
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