Poker After Dark Launches Big Mixed Games with Doyle Brunson & Friends
It’s “Godfather” Week on Poker After Dark with live $1,500/$3,000 Mixed Games popping off Tuesday, Oct. 23 and Wednesday, Oct. 24. Needless to say, the players hopping in are well-established names in the game, headlined by the "Godfather of Poker" himself, Doyle Brunson.
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In the words of PokerGO, they’re bringing Bobby’s Room to PAD, and the cast of characters is reminiscent of the amazing Poker After Dark days of old. Joining Brunson will be the likes of Gus Hansen, Scott Seiver, Brian Rast, Daniel “Jungleman” Cates, Bryn Kenney, Nick Schulman and more.
Poker Central promises H.O.R.S.E. and 2-7 triple draw action, live streamed on PAD for the first time ever. With the ever-increasing popularity of mixed games spreading across the poker scene of late, the episodes should be a special treat for poker players and fans looking for some digression from tried-and-true hold’em.
Power Play Week Highlights
Looking back to the last edition of PAD, it was $100/$200 no-limit hold’em “Power Play” Week and Schulman was on the other side of the commentary booth, mixing it up and getting involved in lots of big pots. Fortunately for him, he won a big flip with ace-king suited against Daniel Negreanu’s pocket queens and ended the first night as the big winner, up $77,000.
Watch below as they run it twice after Justin Young folds the other two queens in the deck.
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Power Play Day 2 saw Schulman once again in some big pots, and it made for a swingy evening. Some highlights include the following hand where Schulman defended the big blind with ten-six offsuit, only to flop sixes full of tens against the pocket queens of Jeremy Ausmus. Somehow, it did not end well for Schulman:
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Schulman was able to recover from the big hit though later when he flopped middle set on J♠4♣2♠ in a six-way pot against Young’s top pair, top kicker and John Morgan’s flush draw.
Young bet $6,500 with his top-top and after Morgan called, Schulman bumped it up to $27,500, more than four times Young’s bet. Young thought better of it and got away, while Morgan stuck in the rest for $100,000 total.
Schulman made the call and suggested they run it twice, and while Morgan didn’t seem overly thrilled with doing so, he was happy to oblige. You can watch the hand in the clip below.
“This is a meaningful pot for Nick Schulman,” commentator Ali Nejad pointed out, mentioning Schulman was down $67,000 before the hand began. After two clean run-outs though, the entire $223,100 pot went Schulman’s way.
Schulman ended the night with $29,000 net profit to put him up over $100,000 for the two sessions, while Negreanu was the big winner of the week, finishing $140,000 in the black.
You can watch this week as Schulman tries to keep his PAD winning streak alive in some very big mixed games, kicking off at 6 p.m. ET on PokerGO.
