Poker news tagged with 'high stakes poker'

Gus Hansen is one of the few high-stakes poker pros who give us a glimpse of what goes on behind the doors of Bobby's Room at the Bellagio in Las Vegas.

Even though he failed to cash a significant amount that befits a super high-stakes player during the 50th year anniversary of the WSOP (he won $20,200 for placing 689th at the 2019 WSOP Event #73: $10,000 Main Event), Hansen was able to accumulate a stack that reached seven figures at Bobby's Room, which he proceeded to cash out.

Read more » Gus Hansen cashes out Seven-Figure Stack at Bobby's Room

There are many great and interesting poker TV shows like Poker After Dark (on PokerGO), NBC National Heads-UP Poker Championship, partypoker's The Big Game, Celebrity Poker Show, Poker Night in America, Late Night Poker, and many more. However, for most fans of the game, the one show that is mostly talked about in poker history and perhaps the one that garners the most respect among the amateurs and pros alike is High Stakes Poker.

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Just a few minutes ago, American poker pro Erick Lindgren (a well-known figure from the classic televised cash game High Stakes Poker) took down Event #32: No-Limit Hold'em (Six Handed) after a very interesting heads-up against Lee Markholt, who was looking to win his first bracelet.

Lindgren brought a massive lead to heads-up play, but Markholt gave him a good fight. It didn't take long before Markholt doubled up with a flopped straight vs KK of Lindgren. After that he went on a winning streak to bring the stacks to about even. However, Lindgren never let go of the lead and proved too strong for Markholt who received $374,960 for finishing runner-up after losing several big pots. Lindgren received $606,317 in prize money and now has 2 WSOP bracelets under his belt!

American poker profile Gerald Hatten "Jerry" Buss has passed on. In 2012, Buss was in hospital for several months with an undisclosed intestinal problem. After being hospitalised at Cedars-Sinai Medical Centre with an undisclosed form of cancer, he died of kidney failure at 5:55 a.m. on February 18, 2013, aged 80.

Read more » High Stakes Poker Icon Dies At 80

It's a fact that David "Viffer" Peat and Shawn "Sheikh" Sheikhan (both well-known from GSN's High Stakes Poker) don't like each other. About 2 years ago the two created headlines when they started fighting during a tournament in Las Vegas. Now history has repeated itself...

Read more » Wild Fight Between Poker Pros At Los Angeles Casino

A few months ago poker player and music mogul Alan Meltzer passed away. Two days ago, the New York Post wrote what Melzer repaid faithful workers who gave him a shoulder to cry on - by making them rich after his death. One of them is upper East Side doorman Chamil Demiraj, who received $500,000, and the other one his chauffeur Jean Laborde, who received $1,000,000.

"I appreciate it," Demiraj said. "He was a generous guy. He was a really good friend of mine, and I was a good friend of his. It's a surprise. Peace and rest to him. That's all I can say."

"He was always joking. He never looked down on anybody,'' said Laborde, a 54-year-old father of five from Irvington, NJ. "He was such a nice guy. He left me money, but it's not a good deal for me because it means he's no longer here.''

Read more » Meltzer's will: $500k to the doorman. $1 million to the driver.

For 6 years, High Stakes Poker has been one of the most popular cash games on television. There have been 8 seasons of High Stakes Poker since they started broadcasting the show on GSN in January 2006, and since the very beginning the biggest names in the poker world have taken part and lost/won millions of dollars.

This year, however, the show's viewer ratings have been been extremely poor and many have stopped watching the show. In fact, the low viewer base of High Stakes Poker might mean the end of the show as GSN won't continue broadcasting the show next year. And it remains unclear whether or not any other TV channel wants to continue broadcasting the show. In other words, season 8 might be the last season of High Stakes Poker.

According to many poker experts, Tom Dwan and Phil Ivey are two of the best cash game players in history. There are plenty of clips on youtube and other video sites where one can see Tom Dwan and Phil Ivey showing their skills at the poker tables. 

However it's not very common that they face each other in huge pots, and especially not when neither of them have anything and decide to bluff. Below is a video with two of their best bluffs against each other. Enjoy!

Read more » Tom Dwan vs Phil Ivey - 2 insane bluffs!

About 2 months ago we wrote about Tobey Maguire, best known from the Spider-Man movies, and that he was sued for $300,000 for taking part in illegal poker games where Bradley Ruderman, a Beverly Hills hedge fund manager, played for his clients money. Maguire was not the only one who took part in these illegal games. Gabe Kaplan, Leonardo di Caprio, Matt Damon, Ben Affleck are also said to have taken part in these exclusive home games.

Read more » Ex-High Stakes Poker host pays back money won from illegal home game

High Stakes Poker has since it started back in 2006 been one of the most popular televised poker cash games, and the show is still going strong today after 7 seasons with another one on the way.

Team PokerStars Pro Daniel Negreanu is one of the biggest names in High Stakes Poker, and he has been on the show since the very beginning. But even though Negreanu is second on the all time money list, his results in High Stakes Poker is a disaster. In fact, Daniel Negreanu has lost $2,182,850 and is by far the biggest loser in High Stakes Poker history.

Read more » Negreanu's disaster results in High Stakes Poker

The first episode of the 7th season of High Stakes Poker was released a few days ago. A lot has changed in the new season of the very popular poker show. For example, Gabe Kaplan has been replace with the comedian Norm MacDonald and the game is now taking place at the Bellagio Casino. However, the biggest news (and saddest) is that no Full Tilt Poker pros will take part.

The main reason for this is that PokerStars is the sponsor of the show and also because they have bought the HSP achieves. In the early season of HSP, the players didn't wear logos and Full Tilt is concerned that the viewers will be confused by their affiliation when the shows will be available on, for example, pokerstars.tv

Read more » High Stakes Poker Season 7: The first episode is out!

In an episode in season 6 of High Stakes Poker, Gus Hansen, the Full Tilt Pro, tried to buy a pot from Eli Elezra with some really bad bluffing from begin to end. What makes it even worse is the fact that Gus Hansen had absolutely no draws or anything and still he couldn't lay down his hand. The bluff costed Gus Hansen around $100,000! However, its for sure not the last time we see Gus Hansen make a crazy play like this one.

Gus Hansen was after the show interviewed by the host Kara Scott. Kara was of course very interested to know what Gus had to say about the bluff which failed. 

"I like my bets on flop and turn, but I hate the ace on the river. And still I decide to make another big bet, which really seemed like an obvious bluff. This is probably the worst bluff I have made in my entire poker career."

Read more » Video: Gus Hansen's worst bluff ever

For 5 years AJ Benza has been the host and commentator for the TV show High Stakes Poker on GSN. The show has been a big success and also the show on GSN with the most viewers. Now the managers at GSN have decided that the show needs a new host and therefore AJ Benza has been fired. The new host is according to different rumors going to be the hottest female poker player right now, Vanessa Rousso. But this is still rumors and nothing has been confirmed by GSN.

When Benza got to know that they were going to replace him after 5 years, he had a big fight with his managers and also wrote about it in his blog...

Read more » High Stakes Poker : AJ Benza to be replaced by Vanessa Rousso?

In episode 7 of High Stakes Poker, season 5, four new players joined the poker table together with pros like Antonio Esfandiari, Phil Laak, Daniel Negreanu, Patrik Antonius etc. The 4 new players were Sam Simon & Nick Cassavetes, the creators of the simpsons. The other 2 players were poker pros Howard Lederer and Joe Hachem, these two played the most interesting hand of the night.
Read more » HighStakes poker: The creators of The Simpsons joins the show

Patrik Antonius, the Finnish pokerpro, is doing great at the moment on Full Tilt's high stake tables. Only this year he has already won over $3,000,000 from playing poker online. How much money he has made from live cash games and tournaments we can only speculate in.
Read more » HighStakes: Antonius is the king of high stakes

Daniel Negreanu keeps on losing big money in the popular TV show High Stakes Poker. In the last episode of high stakes poker he lost everything he had on the table so he had to re-buy for another $200,000 to stay in the high stakes game with blinds of $400/$800.

Read more » High Stakes poker: Famous pokerstar keeps on losing money