High Stakes Poker

While the likes of the PokerStars Million Dollar Challenge and Full Tilt’s Face the Ace might be good for the industry, real poker fans will enjoy nothing more than the news that High Stakes Poker is due to start filming Season 6 next week. There have been some big changes since we last visited the [continue]

Do you remember Men In Black? Specifially, when Will Smith asked the officer why the lot were summoned, the officer replied: “Well, because you are the best of the best of the best!” This expression truly applies to last night’s event, the 2009 PokerStars World Championship of Online Poker event #10: $10,300 High Rollers.
Why so [continue]

Last week’s episode saw the end of a four-week series of shows where the poker playing, for the most part, left a lot to be desired in the eyes of most aficionados. Particularly after the great first 5 episodes and some of the great hands that were played. This week brought a new cast to [continue]

By now just about everyone who might care already knows about the durrrr $1 million heads-up challenge.  However, another top online player has issued an open challenge for anyone willing to accept it for $1 million, “from Tiger Woods to Phil Ivey”.  This one has a bit of a twist, though, for sure.
Dusty  Schmidt, known [continue]

Beginning this Sunday and continuing for the next five Sundays, NBC will be airing the 2009 National Heads-Up Poker Challenge, starting at noon each week.  The event was recorded last month at Caesar’s Palace in Las Vegas and features a field of 64 players, including some of the best tournament and heads-up players in the [continue]

Daniel Negreanu, Peter Eastgate, Doyle Brunson, Eli Elezra, Tom Dwan, Illari Shahmies, Barry Greenstein and David Benyamine were all at the table once again this week on High Stakes Poker.
In the second hand of the night, a double straddle was placed by Eastgate and Brunson. Greenstein made it $15,000 with AJss. Eastgate called with K7ss [continue]

Daniel Negreanu, Peter Eastgate, Doyle Brunson, Eli Elezra, Tom Dwan, Illari Shahmies, Barry Greenstein and David Benyamine were all at the table once again this week on High Stakes Poker.
There were several massive pots in this week’s episode. In the first, Negreanu raised to $3,000 with 9Tcc and was called by Dwan, who had 87o. [continue]

Daniel Negreanu, Peter Eastgate, Doyle Brunson, Eli Elezra, Tom Dwan, Illari Shahmies, Barry Greenstein and David Benyamine were all at the table once again this week on High Stakes Poker.
In the first interesting hand of the session, Eastgate raises Q8o and Barry re-raises to $12,000 on the button with J9hh. Dwan wakes up with AA [continue]

Daniel Negreanu, Peter Eastgate, Doyle Brunson, Eli Elezra, Tom Dwan, Illari Shahmies, Barry Greenstein and David Benyamine were all at the table once again this week on High Stakes Poker.
In the first hand, Daniel Negreanu raised it to $2,500 Ad7d.  Doyle Brunson, for the third week in a row, woke up with a big pocket [continue]

Sunday, March 8th brought episode two of High Stakes Poker on GSN. There was plenty of action on this week, with Tom “durrrr” Dwan and Peter Eastgate being involved in some of the biggest pots once again.
This week’s episode featured the same players as episode one: Daniel Negreanu, Peter Eastgate, Doyle Brunson, Eli Elezra, Tom [continue]