Aug 20, '18 - Aug 26, '18. Each week celebrities will go all-in at The Gardens Casino in Los Angeles, CA playing for a live TV audience. Poker players compete in a series of tournaments at casinos around the world. Warren Lush files the first of two reports from sunny Cardiff I am just back from a week in Cardiff, Wales, where next year’s Late Night Poker was being filmed. Suffice to say the tournament is expected to be broadcast in January, so I will not be revealing any results. But having a lot ofRead More.

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Late Night Poker is a British television series that helped popularize poker in the 2000s. It used 'under the table' cameras that enabled the viewer to see each player's cards.

The show originally ran for six series between 1999 and 2002. After a couple of spin-off series, Late Night Poker Ace and Late Night Poker Masters, it returned in 2008.

Late Night Poker 2011[edit]

The series returned to Channel 4 for its 10th series in 2011. Sponsored by Gala Coral Group, 32 players competed for the $150,000 first prize. Commentary on the series was provided by two of the UK's top poker professionals, Victoria Coren and James Akenhead.

Some of the top players in action were Luke Schwartz, Roberto Romanello, Vanessa Selbst, Jake Cody, James Bord and Liv Boeree. The field contained five former Late Night Poker champions, Dave Ulliott (also known as Devilfish), Simon Trumper, Padraig Parkinson, Peter Costa and John Duthie.

The series was broadcast on Tuesday nights after midnight from 3 October – 6 December 2011.

History[edit]

Back in 1999, the Cardiff-based television production company Presentable approached Channel 4 with the idea of producing a series in the form of a poker tournament. At the time, poker had never been shown on UK TV. Channel 4 commissioned the series and Late Night Poker was born.

The first series aired in July 1999 and very quickly built a cult audience. Viewers were captivated by the dark, smoky, intimate studio atmosphere and the quirky characters of the professional poker players sat around the table. The variation of poker they were playing was No Limit Texas Hold'Em, a variation relatively unknown in the UK at the time. Mcphillips casino hours good friday.

The first series was won by Dave Ulliott who became the UK's first poker celebrity. Other players who became regulars on the series included Series 2 winner, Simon Trumper, Surinder Sunar, Liam Flood, Dave Colclough, Kourosh and the 4 players known collectively as the Hendon Mob, Joe Beevers, Barny Boatman, Ross Boatman and Ram Vaswani.

A celebrity version of the show was produced on 12 October 2000, featuring (in finishing order from 1st to 7th place) Anthony Holden, Al Alvarez, Martin Amis, Victoria Coren, Patrick Marber, Stephen Fry and Ricky Gervais. This led into the creation of spin-off series Celebrity Poker Club on Challenge in 2003.

Late Night Poker ran for six series from 1999 until 2002. A couple of spin-off series, Late Night Poker Ace and Late Night Poker Masters were aired between 2005 and 2007. In 2008, Late Night Poker returned for its 7th series and continued annually until 2011.

Crew[edit]

An integral part of the series were the tournament referee and dealers. From the very start of Late Night Poker, experienced referee, Austrian Thomas Kremser has presided over the action. In the early series, he was accompanied by dealers Marina Kremser and Peter Schmid, and, later on, Stevie Pollak, who replaced Schmid.

The commentary on Late Night Poker has at times created as much interest as the action on the table. In the first few series, the commentators were Jesse May and Nic Szeremeta. Jesse actually appeared in the first series as a player under the pseudonym 'Mickey Dane'.

Other commentators in the series have included Barny Boatman, Lucy Rokach, Victoria Coren, Gary Jones and Richard Orford. For the 10th series, the commentators were Victoria Coren and James Akenhead.

Format[edit]

In the 10th series, there were four heats of eight players with the players finishing 1st and 2nd in each heat qualifying for the final. Black is best jack olsen 2017. The winners of each heat started the final with 50,000 in chips, while the runners-up started with 30,000 in chips. Each of the heats and final was shown across 2x 60 minute programmes - 10 programmes in total.

Most of the previous series of Late Night Poker consisted of 9 programmes - 7 heats, one semi-final, and the final. Each heat had seven players. The seven winners of the heats progressed straight to the final, and the runners-up went to the semi-final, where one additional player progresses, for a final table of 8 players.

(NB: The first series featured five heats, with the players finishing 1st and 2nd in each progressing to the final. The players who qualified by finishing first in their heat started the final with twice as many chips as the heat runners-up.)

Although the precise sums of money involved have varied, the typical buy-in has been in the region of £1,500, with a first prize of between £40,000 and £60,000. In recent years, the buy-in had considerably increased. In the 10th series, the buy-in was $10,000 creating a prize pot of $320,000 with the winner banking $150,000.

Under-the-table cameras[edit]

Late Night Poker's success is largely attributable to its 'under-the-table' cameras (later known as hole cams) which allowed the viewers and commentators to see the players' cards through the transparent table. It is doubtful poker could succeed as a spectator sport otherwise, but American broadcasters have subsequently used a similar technique in programmes such as World Poker Tour.

Nevertheless, in contrast to most Poker shows, in its early series, Late Night Poker tended to use these cameras in a rather minimalist way. For example, in a two-way pot, often only one player's cards were shown, with the commentators trying to infer from the other player's actions what cards he or she held, and how the first player should act. Because of this, the commentary often mirrored the actual decision-making process of a Poker player. Only late in the hand, at the time of a critical decision, would the other player's cards be shown, possibly revealing a startling bluff or an unexpectedly strong hand.

Sponsors[edit]

The original 6 series of Late Night Poker did not have a sponsor. However, with the creation of online poker came online poker companies and sponsored players, by the mid 2000s, most TV poker shows were sponsored by one of these online companies.

The Late Night Poker spin-off series, Late Night Poker Ace and Late Night Poker Masters and Series 7 of Late Night Poker were sponsored by PartyPoker. Series 8 and 9 of Late Night Poker were sponsored by Full Tilt Poker. Series 10 was sponsored by Coral.

Results[edit]

External links[edit]

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Another year is gone, and 2018 has arrived. Seven days are in the books already, but it's a long year ahead, so it's time to break out the PokerNews crystal ball and try to figure out what's going to happen in the coming year.

With that in mind, I have once again taken my shot and posted five predictions for the coming year in poker. First, though, let's take a look at last year's calls and see how I did.

• Forget what you know about consuming the WSOP — Got 'em. OK, I admit that I had a tiny bit of a hint in the form of a cryptic comment from a Caesars employee. But I had nothing concrete to back this up and PokerGO was months away from being revealed. This certainly came true though, as PokerGO and ESPN unveiled a totally revamped coverage strategy and scrapped the long-running November Nine concept.
• David Peters will repeat as GPI POY — Nope. I tabbed Peters as the favorite due to his strong combination of results and volume. After cashing for $7.5 million in 2016, he hit for 'only' $3.5 million last year. Peters certainly fulfilled the volume part of this as he ranked 20th in number of cashes, best among those who regularly play the world's highest buy-in tournaments. However, the GPI formula only spit out enough points for him to get 13th (?!), while Adrian Mateoswon the honors.
• Nobody will cash for $8.4 million --NEARLY nailed this one. I tried betting against the trend of continued poker inflation, and Bryn Kenney was the lone soul to surpass this number. He cashed for $8,505,898, the lowest world-leading total since Ryan Riess in 2013. A win in spirit but another L for the kid.
• We'll see two states legalize online poker — Went mega-bold on this one and came somewhat close to being rewarded as Pennsylvania came through, becoming the first state to legalize online poker in several years. There was also other legislative progress and several states pushed bills with various levels of success.
• Phil Ivey makes his presence felt at the WSOP — Whoops. Ivey, of course, did not record a single cash this summer or at all in 2017, and his only notable Las Vegas appearance was popping into the high-stakes cash game at Bellagio.

Let's go. On to 2018.

1. Two Players Will Join the Elusive Seven-Bracelet Club

Bracelet inflation continues, with a whopping 78 events announced on this year's schedule. So, the value of a single bracelet has never been lower. I mean, even LFG Podcast host Chad Holloway has one, for crying out loud.

With that said, take a look at the list of players who have gathered up eight pieces of WSOP gold.

Pretty short list. And Nguyen was the last to join in 2010, with Ivey preceding him in 2009. Several players have been knocking on the door for the last few years, chief among them Daniel Negreanu.

Negreanu himself set his sights on merely one bracelet this year after several years of lofty multiple-bracelet goals. He hasn't won one since 2013, but it hasn't been for a lack of results as he has posted a number of top-three finishes in the last few years.

Whether due to variance or equally sharp opponents outfoxing him late, 'Kid Poker' just hasn't quite finished like he did back in the day.

Still, he seems primed to break through, particularly with the extra time he has dedicated to his no-limit game in recent years and the addition of even more smaller field high roller events in this summer's WSOP. His mixed game prowess goes without saying, particularly after last year's heartbreaking final day collapse in the Poker Players Championship.

If Negreanu can get me halfway home on this one, a number of players could close it out for me. At six bracelets we have active grinders Chris Ferguson (to the chagrin of many), Ted Forrest and Jeff Lisandro. Hell, even Layne Flack and TJ Cloutier have made it halfway deep in a few events in recent years. Longer shots at five would be Jason Mercier, David Chiu, John Juanda, Scotty Nguyen and Allen Cunningham. It certainly wouldn't shock if Mercier added another pair, especially if he piles on the bracelet bets again.

2. Alex Foxen Cashes for $1.5 Million and Wins a Major Title

We always like to predict a player to post a huge year, and Alex Foxen gets to carry the burden of PokerNews expectations, at least from this writer, in 2018.

Foxen was so good in 2017, with $1.7 million in cashes and a runner-up finish at WPT Five Diamond, that I figured for this to qualify as a bold prediction I'd have to make it a two-pronged one with a money goal and a major title. For major, we're likely looking at either his first bracelet, first World Poker Tour title or a win on the resurrected European Poker Tour.

I first covered Foxen in 2016, and it's clear from looking at his recent results that he's on a sharp upward trend to possibly becoming one of the next stars of the game. He cashed for $133K in 2015, $339K in 2016 and then broke out in a big way with $1.7 million this year.

I just love the way this guy plays poker, plain and simple. He's just a beast with a combination of old-fashioned aggression and new-school GTO trickery. He knows how to run the table over when he has chips and how to grind his way through cold stretches with 20 big blinds, as he did heading into that Five Diamond final table.

Plus, he's got the grind mentality that you need to post a big year in terms of cashes without necessarily any monster results. After that Five Diamond final table, instead of relaxing at home in the U.S. and enjoying the fruits of his career year, he saddled up for a flight to Europe, registered late for PokerStars Championship Prague and shook off the jet lag for a 10th-place finish.

That's an easy player to bet on. No pressure, Alex.

3. Poker Legislation Stalls Out

Last year's bold call aside, I've definitely learned to be a pessimist when it comes to watching online poker bills move — or more accurately, crawl — through the legislative process in various U.S. states.

Few were more excited for the 2017 progress than the PokerNews staff, as we ranked that the fifth-biggest story of the year, but 2018 looks to have a unique variable on the horizon that could impact whether poker continues to move forward. I'm looking at impending sports betting legislation, and I'm wondering whether that could have online poker on the backburner.

New Jersey's widely-publicized case against the U.S. government looks like it will be resolved in the coming months. The state has long pushed for a repeal of PASPA, a dated 1992 federal law that essentially confined sports betting to Nevada. According to industry expert David Payne Purdum of ESPN, New Jersey has consistently looked more likely than not to win the case.

If that does happen, sports betting would immediately jump to the top of the docket for any state considering gambling legislation or gambling expansion. The nationwide sports betting market is obviously not totally clear, but most estimates place it north of $100 billion, with NBA commissioner Adam Silver throwing out the number $400 billion in his famous editorial from 2014.

Needless to say, that dwarfs the online poker market by orders of magnitude. Now, it's possible that states push monster gambling expansion 'omnibus' laws that include everything from online poker to DFS to sports betting. In that case, which you can read more about here from Online Poker Report, PASPA repeal would help online poker.

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But, it seems more likely that the online poker can is kicked down the road in favor of this far more pressing gambling expansion.

4. Less Than 30 Players Will Cash for $3 Million

I'll cut right to the chase: I'm basically trying to predict that the global high roller scene will scale back a bit or at least plateau in 2018.

Here's the number of players to hit this mark each year since 2012, the first year that the Big One for One Drop was held: 13 (2012), 13 (2013), 16 (2014), 14 (2015), 20 (2016) and 32 (2017). Clearly, it's steadily rising as the poker economy inflates with more and more high roller events.

However, there's a double whammy here where poker tournament schedules continue to expand into one another's territory and the number of players willing to consistently fire away in super high rollers seems to be declining.

On the first point, take a look at the upcoming schedules for Aussie Millions and the debuting U.S. Poker Open. They mash right into each other with the $100K Challenge in Melbourne overlapping with the first few USPO events. And it's a lot to ask of players, particularly the recreational players, to go right from firing the big Aussie events into a series full of $25K and $50K events in the U.S.

On the second point, players like Juha Helppi have observed that the super high roller fields are getting tougher and smaller. As liquidity in these drops, there's less incentive for both pros with bankrolls on the border and recreational players to keep firing. Even guys like Scott Seiver and Connor Drinan who were mainstays in these things a couple of years ago have picked their spots more or focused their time and energy on other ventures like cash games and cryptocurrencies.

It feels like climate change could be coming, which means less players posting inflated cashing totals.

5. Chris Moneymaker Makes the Poker Hall of Fame

While the Poker Hall of Fame has its flaws, it's still the biggest lifetime achievement award our industry has, so we in the media all pay it some mind every year whether we are involved in the voting process or not.

Chris Moneymaker has been one of the most talked-about candidates in recent years. The 2003 World Series of Poker Main Event champion does not fulfill some of the officially recognized criteria for candidacy. Most obviously, he has not been playing for high stakes or 'stood the test of time' in the sense of continually adding titles and accomplishments to his poker legacy.

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Obviously, Moneymaker's legacy is all about one thing: helping to usher in the poker boom. It was the right story at the right time in the right event in poker history. He passes in spades the Poker HoF 'builder' criterium of 'contributing to the overall growth and success of the game of poker' and has been one of its best ambassadors for over a decade now.

Having interacted with Moneymaker and covered him at a number of events, I can say that this guy is a poker fan's dream. He will take pictures with you, talk to you and even play in late night $2/5 cash games with you.

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Thing is, that 'builder' criterium cited above is reserved specifically for 'non-players.'

However, David 'Devilfish' Ulliott made it into the Hall posthumously this year. The main argument I kept hearing for his inclusion was he did a ton for the advancement of poker in Europe. So, it seems even if there isn't officially going to be a hybrid player/builder category, the individuals voting folks in have unofficially created one.

If Devilfish is in, Moneymaker should be in also, and I think he will get enough support if he's on the ballot again in 2018.

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