Poker on TV
GGPoker making further live poker moves NSUS Group Inc., the parent company of online poker giant GGPoker and the World Series of Poker, has acquired an equity stake in High Stakes Poker Productions, the producer of the livestream poker cash game show Hustler Casino Live. In Wednesday’s announcement, High Stakes Poker Productions said that the… Read more »
Alan Keating is not shy when comes to putting gigantic sums of money on the line at the poker table, so last week’s Million Dollar Game on Hustler Casino Live (HCL) was right up his alley. And though he was down over a million bucks Friday night, he came through with a $2.4 million score… Read more »
We’re less than a month and a half away from the 2024 World Series of Poker in Las Vegas and as much as many of us would like to attend, that’s just not going to happen. But PokerGO is there to pick up the slack, announcing livestreaming coverage that will include over 300 hours of… Read more »
When I played online poker, I needed to take a break if I lost $20 in a hand. Such is the stress of a micro-roller. If I lost nearly a million dollars and did so in hand in which I was drawing nearly dead from the start? I’d probably launch myself to the planet Dr.… Read more »
Negreanu going for the title The next round of High Stakes Duel 4 is set. PokerGO announced on Tuesday that for Round 2, Daniel Negreanu will take on old nemesis Doug Polk. Both players will buy in for $100,000. There is no set date yet, but the match-up will take place some time in August… Read more »
When he was a 22-year-old internet poker sensation, Tom Dwan won the largest pot in televised poker history. In Season 5 of High Stakes Poker (filmed in late 2008, aired in 2009), he turned trip Queens to beat Barry Greenstein’s pocket Aces and win a $919,600 pot. Last night, Queens were his friend again as… Read more »
Ethan “Rampage” Yau knows that if you have air on the river, you’re only going to win the pot if you force your opponent to fold. Most of us get nervous trying to pull off a $20 bluff, but over the weekend, Rampage took little time to risk $628,000 with nothing but Ace high on… Read more »
Because I enjoy torturing myself, I often think about what it would be like to have so much money that I don’t care about losing large chunks of it. Buy a car and can’t find it in the parking lot? No matter, just leave it. Purchase an rare NFT and then get my wallet hacked?… Read more »
There have been many poker programs created since the “boom” of the Aughts. These programs, for the most part, usually take the show “on the road” to different casinos or, on the odd occasion, a studio setting. The brains behind the popular poker program Poker Night in America have come up with a concept that… Read more »
Negreanu gets on the scoreboard It was over two years in the making, but Daniel Negreanu finally did it. He finally won a match in High Stakes Duel, beating Eric Persson in the first round of High Stakes Duel 4 Monday night. Each man brought $50,000 to the table, so Negreanu pocketed a $100,000 prize.… Read more »
The PokerGO streaming program High Stakes Duel has captured the attention of a great deal of the poker world. There’s still room for some innovation with the program, however, as PokerGO proved on Friday night. In what was a precursor for the match on Monday evening, poker veteran Mike Matusow showed that he still has… Read more »
PokerGO has announced a special edition of its popular series High Stakes Poker. Scheduled for April 27, this will not be the usual pre-taped, edited episode, but rather a livestream. The episode will air on both the PokerGO subscription service and PokerGO’s YouTube channel, which also requires a paid subscription for much of its content.… Read more »
Dusting off the highlights You ever think you spotted something special, only to find out you were the last one to the party? That just happened to poker pro Allen “Chainsaw” Kessler this week. On Monday, Kessler posted a poll, asking the poker community who they thought was a better No-Limit Hold’em player: Phil Ivey… Read more »
Never say never It looks like poker pro Garrett Adelstein will not appear on Hustler Casino Live any time in the near future, or maybe ever. Adelstein, who famously lost a $269,000 to Robbi Jade Lew on the show six months ago and subsequently accused her of cheating because she made an insane call, has… Read more »
PokerGO has announced the return of its popular poker show, No Gamble, No Future, which will premiere next Wednesday, March 22, at 8:00pm ET. The Season 2 debut will actually feature two episodes, back-to-back. From there, the show will air every Wednesday night through May. Brent Hanks and Jeff Platt will once again man the… Read more »
Can’t blame her, but still hurts With all the different streaming services we feel obligated to subscribe to nowadays, it can be tough to commit to another, especially if it’s for such niche programming like poker. So as good as PokerGO’s content has gotten, it is understandable if fans of shows like High Stakes Poker… Read more »
Nosebleed stakes history You ever buy in to a home game with $100, leave with $150, and spring for dinner like it was the best night of your life? Damn right you have. Hell, if I won a $5 sit-and-go, I was riding high for at least a couple hours. If I won nearly $2… Read more »
PokerGo has hired professional poker player Nick Schulman as the new commentator for High Stakes Poker, replacing the legendary Gabe Kaplan, who retired from the show last week. “To join the show that started it all and replace the best to ever do it is a tremendous honor,” said Schulman in Tuesday’s press release. “Thank… Read more »
Poker royalty relinquishes his throne Famed actor and poker enthusiast Gabe Kaplan has retired as commentator on High Stakes Poker after one episode in Season 10. PokerGO announced Kaplan’s decision on Wednesday, saying that his replacement, to work with A.J. Benza, will be named when the second episode airs next week. Kaplan’s final episode was… Read more »
New year, new season PokerGO has announced that the tenth season of the ever-popular show High Stakes Poker will premiere in January 2023. As was the case for the past two seasons, all episodes will be shown PokerGO’s subscription streaming service. “High Stakes Poker is such a special, classic brand that has been the genesis… Read more »
PokerGO’s reach getting longer PokerGO has announced a new, expanded distribution partnership with YouTube, which could go a long way toward increasing the poker subscription streaming service’s visibility. In a Tuesday press release, PokerGO said that its content is now available on both YouTube TV and YouTube Primetime Channels. This does not mean that YouTube… Read more »
It seems that poker’s punch in the world of television and sports has taken a few steps backward. In a rather unimaginable fashion CBS Sports, the television broadcast outlet for the 2022 World Series of Poker, which completed action in mid-July, just can’t seem to find the ability to tell people that they are currently… Read more »
With the World Series of Poker’s conclusion last week, you might think that the airwaves would be a bit bereft of poker. PokerGO is looking to fill that void, however, with the introduction of a new program exclusive to the streaming channel. It should be something that entices the newcomers, low stakes players and those… Read more »
Who needs football on Sunday night? We know that it is World Series of Poker time, and as such, the World Poker Tour is taking a break, but that doesn’t mean that you can’t get your fill of WPT action. This past Sunday marked the first television episode of WPT Season XVIII. Broadcast on the… Read more »
If it were arguably anyone else, the poker world would be utterly amazed. Since it is 15-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner and Poker Hall of Famer Phil Hellmuth, however, people seem to continue to gloss over his heads-up dominance. Hellmuth continued to demonstrate his skill in that particular discipline on Wednesday, defeating FS1… Read more »
