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Ziigmund looks to crash PAD.If you practice good table selection, the cash game on NBC’s Poker After Dark this week is the last place on earth you’d want to be.

With Tom “durrrr” Dwan, Phil Ivey, Patrik Antonius, Ilari “Ziigmund” Sahamies, Eli Elezra and Howard Lederer all dumping down the $100,000 minimum buy-in, this year’s game should be one for the ages.

Players will find themselves confronted with $200/$400 blinds and a $100 ante to start, which should help produce a number of awe-inspiring monster pots.

This marks the second year that NBC has aired two weeks of cash game episodes on Poker After Dark.

Just like last year, players will draw for seats, but then redraw half-way through the game to give viewers a different table dynamic.

This is the first year that Finnish cash-game maniac Ziigmund will be making an appearance.

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Online poker room CelebPoker will be hosting their Elite VIP in London during January 2010. The event, the CelebPoker Invitational poker tournament, will be held at the Palm Beach Casino in London, where players will play in groups of twenty. Each group will compete for a individual prize pool of $40k with a $24k prize going to the winner. In addition to the tournament the online poker room will host a VIP party after the event reaches its conclusion. Players interested in playing in the Elite VIP in January should hit CelebPoker to qualify for the event.