Poker After Dark

PokerStars Sponsors High Stakes Poker Season 6, Logos Allowed?

source: Poker on TV

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

source: Poker on TV

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

Doyle Brunson Hates the Poker-Based Game Shows

source: Poker on TV

Doyle has said he's a poker purist, and I am too. One of my favorite Doyle quotes was when he said, while playing a tournament on Poker After Dark, that he preferred real poker (by which he meant cash games) to tournaments. On a different episode of that show Patrik Antonius also said he preferr...

Published Wed, Oct 21

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

source: Poker on TV

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

source: Poker on TV

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

Eric Drache Talks About High Stakes Poker

source: Poker on TV

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

WSOP Ante Up for Africa Celebrities Announced

source: Poker News Daily

Bodog Beat  NV Lederer owns over $1.2 million in earnings from WSOP felts and has battled on televised poker programming like GSN's “High Stakes Poker” and NBC's “Poker After Dark.” Former MIT Blackjack Team member and current Team Full Tilt pro Andy Bloch will also ...

Published Wed, May 13

Full Tilt Introduces New Software Featuring Synchronized Breaks

source: PokerSoftware.com

 Costa Rica - Dan Cypra, Dan Cypra The Full Tilt Poker website proudly boasts, “This is the same game type that pros such as Phil Ivey, Gus Hansen, and Patrik Antonius play at the Big Game in Las Vegas, or on television shows such as ‘Poker After Dark' and ‘High Stakes Poker. ...

Published Fri, May 1