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Poker pro Gavin Smith has joined the table for this weeks episodes of Poker After Dark on NBC. (Bodog Beat Image)

The popular poker show Poker After Dark has added two new faces for this week's episodes, poker pro Gavin Smith and noted high stakes cash game player David Oppenheim. Only, instead of the intense discussion of poker strategy that one might expect, the table talk turns almost exclusively to golf. Why? You may ask. Well, Smith joins fellow golfing enthusiasts Phil Ivey, Daniel Negreanu, Doyle Brunson and Erick Lindgren at the table and they share stories of their prop bet golfing exploits over the summer during the WSOP.

One of those prop bets involved Smith, Ivey and Negreanu betting Lindgren that he could not finish four back-to-back rounds of golf and shoot under 100 for each round with no caddy or cart. Needless to say, he completed the feat – in 120 degree Las Vegas summer heat – and reportedly won more than $300,000.

But it doesn't stop there, those same players (minus Ivey) also played a fiercely competitive round of golf in Las Vegas for a show on RawVegas.tv called High Stakes Golf, in which they gambled ridiculously large sums of money on each hole of the round. Then, replace Smith with poker legend Doyle Brunson, and that cast of characters competed in much the same style for ESPN's High Stakes Entertainment Golf Tour.

All golf aside, the six poker players at the table will each put up $20,000 of their own money and vie for the chance to take home the winner-take-all $120,000 grand prize. Episodes are airing at 2:05am in the morning. Insomniacs enjoy, the rest of us will catch it on DVR at a more civilized hour of the day.

Meanwhile, check out this video from over the summer of Lindgren's marathon golf prop bet: