The filming of Season 7 of GSN’s High Stakes Poker has begun. This season is sure to bring more exciting cash game action as familiar and new faces join the cast of players this season.
High Stakes Poker is GSN’s wildly popular cash-game poker show. The show, now sponsored by PokerStars is in its seventh season and is as popular as ever. Usually filmed at The Golden Nugget in downtown Las Vegas, this season is being filmed at The Bellagio on the Las Vegas Strip. Fans of the show love it because of the crazy action the show has, including a $919,000 pot between Tom Dwan and Barry Greenstein.
While an official list of this season’s players has not been released, fans of the show are finding other ways to identify who will be surrounding the felt this season. Andrew “good2cu” Robl’s twitter read “On set for high stakes poker. Going to be quite a season!” Haralabos “Haralabob” Voulgaris made a twitter post yesterday stating “On my way to Las Vegas to play in GSN’s High Stakes Poker. Haven’t played live poker since July, should be fun.” Others with twitter posts about playing on the show were: Barry Greenstein, WSOP 2010 Main Event winner Jonathan Duhamel, Doyle Brunson, Antonio Esfandiari, Phil Laak, Jason Mercier and Phil Galfond, who’s twitter post simply said “HSP!”
As we reported earlier, the most noticeable names missing from the list are Tom Dwan, Phil Ivey and other Team Full Tilt members. Barry Greenstein, a PokerStars Team Pro member, reportedly spoke with Howard Lederer about the decision and while the show is still welcoming Full Tilt Pros to play, Full Tilt does not feel comfortable having its players on the show that is now sponsored by PokerStars.
Regardless, the show is sure to produce lots of action and will surely keep railbirds everywhere entertained. The show is set to air in February 2011 during its normal Sunday night time slot.