Arnold Thimons Poker
Posted By admin On 26/03/22Arnold Thimons picked two-time main event champion Johnny Chan and four-time world series of poker bracelet winner Daniel Negreanu, together with poker pros Mike Matusow, Jennifer Tilly and Phil Laak as the players he wanted to face in the event. The champion will take home $120,000. There will be a 'Dream Match III' as 44 year-old amateur Arnold Thimons from Greensburg, PA has chosen Phil Laak, Jennifer Tilly, Mike Matusow, Johnny Chan, and Daniel Negreanu as the players he wants to compete against for the $120,000 first place prize. Poker After Dark Season 5 Episode 7. DETAILS Week 2: Dream Table III feat. Johnny Chan, Jennifer Tilly, Arnold Thimons, Mike Matusow, Phil Laak, Daniel Negreanu.
Poker newsOn March 23rd, 2009, Arnold Thimons will try to accomplish what no online poker qualifier has ever accomplished before-actually last long on and win the Dream Table on Poker After Dark. Beginning tonight, the widely known poker show of NBC will start broadcasting its third installment of the 'Dream Table' where it deviates a little from its usual six-handed tournament structure of big-name poker pros by placing one online poker qualifiers and allowing the player to pick his opponents.
This season, the forty four year old Pennsylvania native overcame the odds to win a spot at the prestigious late-night poker table. Arnold Thimons picked two-time main event champion Johnny Chan and four-time world series of poker bracelet winner Daniel Negreanu, together with poker pros Mike Matusow, Jennifer Tilly and Phil Laak as the players he wanted to face in the event. The champion will take home $120,000. NBC placed two online poker qualifiers into Poker After Dark in the previous seasons of the PAD, but neither online qualifier was able to win against the six-handed poker tournament.
All of the big 5 poker names Thimons picked are regulars on Poker After Dark, although a number of the players will likely be eager to earn another win onto their tournament record. Mike Matusow has a record of one-ten on Poker After Dark, while Daniel Negreanu (one-six) and Phil Laak (one-four) have not won a PAD title since the first season of the show.
04/06/2009, Monday
Todd Sanders
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Poker newsOn March 13th, 2009, for the third time in the show's history, an amateur player will get an opportunity of edging out a line-up of formidable poker pros on NBC's 'Poker After Dark'. Poker player Arnold Thimons won his slot onto the show's Dream Table III through a freeroll event, earning the right to pick the poker players that he wants to compete against for the $120,000 winner-take-all cash prize. Thimons picked to take on a formidable group of poker players like Johnny Chan, Mike Matusow, Phil Laak and Jennifer Tilly at his Dream Poker Table.
So far, no amateur poker player has won the Dream Table match title on 'Poker After Dark' and Thimons, a resident of Greensburg, Pennsylvania will have his work cut out for him as he tries to become the first poker player to won the title. Everyone of Thimon's opponents on the match is a veteran of the Poker After Dark, with Johnny Chan currently possessing the best record, having won three of his 5 previous matches. Negreanu, Laak and Matusow each earned a single victory on the show, while Jennifer Tilly is the only one picked by Thimons who has yet to win a 'Poker After Dark' title.
Arnold Thimons Poker Game
04/08/2009, Wednesday
Todd Sanders
