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Legendary Backgammon Club Returns for a TV Poker Show

The legendary New York City Mayfair Club, shut by the authorities in 2000, returns for a special high stake game in the TV show "Poker after Dark". Originally a backgammon club, the Mayfair Club was famous, or rather infamous, for hosting wild poker nights and breeding a new generation of avid poker pros since the late 80s.

Five of Mayfair's regular poker players - Jay Heimowitz, Howard Lederer, Mickey Appleman, Dan Harrington and Steve Zolotow – plus the club's former manger Mike Shichtman will try to relive the old days at a special NBC's "Poker after Dark". Together, the six Mayfair graduates will be creating a $120,000 prize pool, which will be given to the sole winner. Other famous poker figures attached to the Mayfair Club include backgammon player and author of Backgammon Paul Magriel, Eric Seidel, Stu Ungar, Noli Francisco and more.

In addition to playing the $120,000 televised poker game, the participants in NBC's special resurrection broadcast of Mayfair Club will be reminiscing from the golden days of the mythological gaming establishment, discussing the relations between backgammon and poker, gossiping about the late great Stu Unger, and sharing their general worldviews with the viewers and one another.