This week, for the upcoming five nights, you can become a witness of one of the most exciting televised poker events – Arnold Thimins, the 44-year-old poker player will be living the dream. Having won at a FullTilt Poker freeroll poker tournament, he built his way to NBC’s Poker After dark.

Timins had to choose the five opponents at his table in the weekly $120,000 winner-take-all Texas Holdem Tournament. Although such choice is pretty difficult, Timins finally decided to chose the following players: Jennifer Tilly, Mike Matusow, Phil Laak, Daniel Negreany and the former world poker champion Johnny Chan. The televised episodes featuring Timins and his five opponents will start airing late night Monday and will then air each night until Firday on NBC. However, besides of the tournament itself, there will be a director’s cut airing late night Saturday. This episode will show some highlights of the entire tournament followed by commentary from Timins and his five opponents.

This will be a fascinating poker event with five players, all except Jennifer Tilly, having previous victories on Poker After Dark. Jennifer is a former actress that became a poker player and then turned actress again, as a famous poker player failed to gain a victory during her both previous attempts on this thrilling poker show. At the same time Johnny Chan stands at the other end of this poker team – he scores three Poker After Dark victories in five appearances on this show, besides of two World Series of Poker Main Event wins. The rest of Thimins’s opponents – Mike Matusow, Phil Laak and Daniel Negreanu score one win on the Poker After Dark each.

In case if Arnold Timins will be able to withstand these sharks and win the tournament, he will become the first Poker After Dark winner qualified through a freeroll. Both previous qualifiers, Paul Featherstone and Ken Light failed to grab $120,000 first place tournament prize.

Also recommended:

1. Table Image: Tight Play
2. Table Image: Introduction
3. Single-Table No-Limit Texas Holdem Tournaments