High Stake Poker in Las Vegas
On Friday, December 19th The Golden Nugget in Las Vegas will act as a podium for the launch of the highly popularized televised poker cash game High Stake Poker. The show that boasts a $200,000 minimum buy-in will be filmed for three days commemorating the start of its fifth season. Among the attendants are names that will make you think twice before putting your money at stake. Peter Eastgate, 2008 World Series of Poker main Event Champion and eleven time bracelet winner Phil Hullmuth. The show’s price tag makes it the “largest buy-in for an entire run of a television series” states GSN, which airs High Stake Poker.
As the very first fraction of High Stake Poker was also filmed at to storied Las Vegas casino, the show is returning to its pedigree. Before this return the show had mover around to other milieus including the South Point Casino and The Palms. The Hosts that keep us entertained are”Welcome back kotter’s” star Gabe Kaplan as well as A.J. Benza.
Doyle Brunson, the idol of the industry, will be a part of High stake Poker Season five. Brunson owns 10 WSOP bracelets and pinned his most recent piece in 2005 in a $5000 No limit Hold’em shorthanded event and on top of that he was a WSOP Main even Champion for two consecutive years, 1976 and 1977. Play online poker against Doyle Brunson at Doyle’s Room.
Hellmuth being one of the key faces behind Ultimate Bet poker room will make a comeback to High Stake Poker for the new season. Also known as “the Poker brat” Hellmuth won his eleventh WSOP bracelet in a $ 1500 No Limit Hold’em Tournament in the year 2007, pocketing a whopping and unbelievable $ 637,000 in the process. Joining Hellmuth this season will be two other world-famous “Phils” namely, Phil Ivey, a proud owner of five WSOP champion and Phil Laak. Antonio Esfandiari, Laak’s Partner in crime, will also be heading out to Golden Nugget next Friday.
Get ready for a tug-of-war this season as Eastgate; the youngest WSOP Main Event Champion ever at only 22years of age seized a groundbreaking $9.1 million. The Danish Eastgate trampled over Hellmuths standing record by two years. As the saying goes keep your friends close and your enemies even closer, Eastgates Heads-up opponent in the 2008 WSOP Main Event Ian Demidov will also participate.
For the very first time Tom Dwan also known as “durrrr” in the online poker world will be joining Eastgate and Demidov in Las Vegas for this showdown. Successfully transitioning into the live world Dwan has competed on NBC’s “National Heads up Poker Championship” and “Poker after Dark”.
The Co- Creator of the popular animated television series “The Simpson’s” Sam Simon, who finished 329th in the 2007 WSOP Main event, along with Nick Cassavetes will also be heading out to the Golden Nugget. Daniel Negreanu, A crowd favorite, will also be seen at the Golden Nugget with his team Poker Stars Pro Member Barry Greenstein .
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The set at Golden Nugget will be closed to the general public. Only a few selected media correspondents are permitted to attend this event. The show will air on cable network GSN and the stations crew will film the event between 12:30 pm and 9:30 pm Next weekend. Poker programming on GSN presently airs on Sunday Nights.
