Poker After Dark

Poker on TV Update And Newsbites: Poker 2Nite and Face the Ace

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Logos are allowed High Stakes Poker for the first time in season 6, as you can see in a recent video.Greg Raymer says that he's invited to play on High Stakes Poker each season and explains why he doesn't play (not bankrolled for it). There was some drama at the recent Poker After Dark taping (sp...

Published Fri, Nov 13

ESPN's WSOP Monopoly Must End

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Film a cash game. The entire poker world is in Vegas during the WSOP each summer, and the biggest cash games are already taking place. Why not film one? There's plenty of evidence that cash games are more popular than tournaments (e.g. downloads, forum posts, poll, poll). The show could either b...

Published Mon, Nov 9

PokerStars Sponsors High Stakes Poker Season 6, Logos Allowed?

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High Stakes Poker will have a sponsor for the first time in season 6: PokerStars. Historically, PokerStars left US TV-show marketing mostly to Full Tilt Poker, but with Million Dollar Challenge, and now High Stakes Poker, it's clear that PokerStars has changed their strategy.

Published Thu, Nov 5

Kara Scott Reportedly New High Stakes Poker Hostess

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AJ Benza blogged twice (1, 2) lately about losing his High Stakes Poker gig. On the October 26 Mediocre Poker Radio podcast he added that Kara Scott will be the new hostess for High Stakes Poker season 6, doing interviews from the floor while Gabe Kaplan does commentary alone:

Published Tue, Oct 27

Poker on TV Update: WSOP To 9 PM, Million Dollar Challenge

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AJ Benza is claiming they might replace him with a female cohost on High Stakes Poker season 6. Pokerati has the satellite radio clip.ESPN will be airing the Caesars Cup and WSOP Europe in early February. It looks like two hours for the former and 8 hours for the latter.

Published Mon, Oct 5

Ante Up for Africa on CBS

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The next Poker After Dark is a tourney featuring Chris Ferguson, Howard Lederer, Doyle Brunson, Daniel Negreanu, Phil Ivey, and Phil Hellmuth. There is a new largest pot in TV poker history: $1.1 million. It happened during the filming of Million Dollar Cash Game season 4 (spoilers), which...

Published Fri, Sep 18

Blockbuster Poker After Dark Cash Game

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Poker After Dark returns next week with a blockbuster cash game featuring 4 of the most exciting players in the world, Tom "durrrr" Dwan, Patrik Antonius, Ilari "Ziigmund" Sahamies, and Phil Ivey, plus Howard Lederer and Eli Elezra. The game runs for two weeks at 2:05 AM Tuesday through Sa...

Published Thu, Sep 3

Eric Drache Talks About High Stakes Poker

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Eric Drache talked about High Stakes Poker season 6 on the latest 2+2 Pokercast. They start talking about TV 43 minutes into the show. A summary: They expect to tape at least 13 weeks of High Stakes Poker in the first week of November, right after taping Poker After Dark. Eric says he does more of...

Published Wed, Aug 26