High Stakes Poker Season 3

peeko

source: http://www.bluffmagazine.com/news/newsArticle.asp?newsID=1101427

The third season of HIGH STAKES POKER (“HSP 3”) premieres on Monday, January 15 at 9 PM ET/8 PM CT from the South Point Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada.

HSP 3 newcomer Jamie Gold is one of 14 new players who will be making their debut this season on HSP 3, which features the toughest field of players ever.

As in the past two seasons, HSP 3 features the players buying in with at least $100,000 and up to $1 million of cash to play no limit Texas hold ‘em.

“HIGH STAKES POKER is a hit for GSN. Poker continues to gain momentum with a record number of players participating in the World Series. In addition, major films including ‘Casino Royale,’ have featured high stakes games,” said Rich Cronin, President and CEO of GSN. “We have put together an all-star line up of players who brought more money to the table than ever before. With the NFL regular season and college bowl games over on January 8th, viewers will enjoy the new season of HIGH STAKES POKER action on Monday nights beginning January 15th.”

Once again Gabe Kaplan and AJ Benza call the action on HIGH STAKES POKER. In an unprecedented move, Kaplan, a renowned poker player himself, will play this season. Kaplan will take a seat at the table on a couple of episodes and one of the players will switch places take over the analyst role on the broadcast.

Joining Kaplan and Gold is a star studded line up of newcomers including 2006 WSOP runner-up Paul Wasicka, Phil Ivey, Chris Ferguson, Patrick Antonius, David Benyamine, John D’Agostino, Victor Ramdin, David Williams, Bill Chen, Dan Harmetz, Dan Shak, Illya Trincher and Brian Townsend.

The star players who made HIGH STAKES POKER a smash in the first two seasons also return for more action. The line-up features:

Daniel Alaei
Brad Booth
Doyle Brunson
Todd Brunson
Eli Elezra
Antonio Esfandiari
Sam Farha
Barry Greenstein
Jennifer Harman
Phil “The Unabomber” Laak
Erick Lindgren
Mike “The Mouth” Matusow
Daniel “Kid Poker” Negreanu
Shawn Sheikhan

The second season brought high drama, intensity and the largest pot in the history of HSP. It included Daniel Negreanu losing a pot of $575,000 when his full house was defeated by Gus Hansen’s four-of-a-kind. That hand topped the first season’s record pot of over $350,000 when Sam Farha’s pocket kings beat Barry Greenstein’s pocket aces when a king appeared on the flop.

Lafortezza

Can't wait for this. The new season was apparently split into 2 tables of players with one table getting the donkeys and gamblers and lesser known internet players, and the 2nd table getting Antonius/Ivey/etc.

Lafortezza

Also, do not link to websites where you can view/download poker shows. It can get boards in trouble and then I might not have anything to surf when bored in work, which would be a disaster.

ianmc38

I'm looking forward to watching brian townsend(aba20) on the show though I hear he lost 100k. Apparently the lineup on each table was semi-rigged and all the bad players (Eli, Matusow etc) were put on one table while Ivey, Antonius, Benyamine, JDags, Aba, Brad Booth and Esfandiari were placed on the other.

Flipper

Mel Judah told me an hilarious story from the first episode. Jamie Gold makes it about $100k to go pre-flop and confidently, Doyle Brunson looks at him and says "son, this isn't a tournament... you can't push us around like that". He then makes it $500k!!! Gold folds. Brilliant

valor

i hope that is true

jimbling

Flipper wrote:

Mel Judah told me an hilarious story from the first episode. Jamie Gold makes it about $100k to go pre-flop and confidently, Doyle Brunson looks at him and says "son, this isn't a tournament... you can't push us around like that". He then makes it $500k!!! Gold folds. Brilliant

lmao.... absolute quality.

AKQJ10

blinds 300/600, brunson makes it 10k with kk, gold repops to 100k with AQ , doyle then says this isnt a tourney and makes it 500k. and gold folds

Macspower

Any sign of Negraneau?

robinlacey

yeah i'm looking forward to seeing sbrugby on this,to be honest i'm much more interested in seeing the internet players than the name pros,although watching the tourney pros playing does give me great encouragement!

Mr. Flibble

A 'best of' episode with new footage was released to tide us over until S3. Happy hunting.

peeko

good lad flibble

NickyOD

I want to see Gold ripped to ****ing shreds!!!

That is all.

Killme00

NickyOD wrote:

I want to see Gold ripped to ****ing shreds!!!

That is all.

Get him an invite to the Irish Open then!!!!!!!!!

NickyOD

Killme00 wrote:

Get him an invite to the Irish Open then!!!!!!!!!

lol! Has he even played in a tournament since the WSOP?

If he was at my table in Dublin it would be a dream come true. One of us would have to get hurt and there's a 50/50 chance it would be him.

phantom_lord

AKQJ10 wrote:

blinds 300/600, brunson makes it 10k with kk, gold repops to 100k with AQ , doyle then says this isnt a tourney and makes it 500k. and gold folds

Anyone have any idea of how much they were buying in for? seems alot deepeer that last year,




please say gold bought in for 6m....

Orizio

Flipper wrote:

Mel Judah told me an hilarious story from the first episode. Jamie Gold makes it about $100k to go pre-flop and confidently, Doyle Brunson looks at him and says "son, this isn't a tournament... you can't push us around like that". He then makes it $500k!!! Gold folds. Brilliant

Fantastic.JG truly irratates the hell out of me.

I wasn't aware Antonius was such a strong and successful player.

Mr E

For the file hunters: There is a WSOP Final Table episode with Jamie Gold giving hand by hand commentary on how well he was playing. :rolleyes:

Came out in the last week or two. Hasn't changed my opinion of him.

delanec8

TmB wrote:

For the file hunters: There is a WSOP Final Table episode with Jamie Gold giving hand by hand commentary on how well he was playing. :rolleyes:

Came out in the last week or two. Hasn't changed my opinion of him.

If anything it really shows how little he knows about poker. When Raymer did his commentary you could tell he was a good player

Mr. Flibble

http://youtube.com/watch?v=oNBrgISZijI

J Gold, "I should have brought a million dollars". Lol, can't wait.

peeko

Good Add! Very Full Tilty.

phantom_lord

Mr. Flibble wrote:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=oNBrgISZijI

J Gold, "I should have brought a million dollars". Lol, can't wait.

that's one weird looking promo.

peeko

This should be out there soon enough. Air's in the states tonight.

DeadParrot

Poker after Dark is where its at for me at the mo.

Sheiky and Phil going after each other and Phil crying then blowing up.


Quality tv

Rb

peeko wrote:

This should be out there soon enough. Air's in the states tonight.

Fantastic, the cousins in the states should have it ready to send tomorrow or the next day I hope.

Mr E

I'm watching P.A.D. - the Sheiky/Phil blowout was fun, but the show itself isn't great. I dunno, it just lacks something.... Its like HSP-lite.

Macspower

can we see this on telly? what channel?

Rb

Macspower wrote:

can we see this on telly? what channel?

Nope. You have to get it elsewhere.

Mellor

phantom_lord wrote:

Anyone have any idea of how much they were buying in for? seems alot deepeer that last year,




please say gold bought in for 6m....

We'd all love to see Gold fleeched, but its 1 mil max

The_Chopper

My cousin has just sent me something nice - enjoy

Rb

The_Chopper wrote:

My cousin has just sent me something nice - enjoy

Cheers for the headsup, its on its way to me as we speak

mdwexford

excellent, been looking forward to this for months

Rb

Brilliant, Golds in it, fingers crossed he gets felted a few times.

Rb

Btw, if anyone else is looking for this and needs an address drop me a pm.

Rb

Kicked off season 3 pretty well, glad its back and we're not stuck with Poker After Dark for any longer.

bigslick

just finished watching this. a pretty good episode it must be said with a few big hands. cant wait to see more of jamie gold in next episode.

peeko

Started watching poker after dark last night. Looks entertaining, but not very poker filled.

Rb

Have just woken up so only got to reply to those pm's now. You've to register on that place but its quick and free(and well worth it if you have a browse around the place).

peeko wrote:

Started watching poker after dark last night. Looks entertaining, but not very poker filled.

Watched a few episodes of P.A.D. It's alright, but it seems as though theres something missing. Its good being able to see the majority of the hands and hear the majority of their conversations, but for some reason its just not that great.
The commentary is crap, sure enough its a bare minimum but he throws in crap lines here and there rather than actual commentary. Shana Hiatt is a good point to the show though

insafehands

Could you PM me any favourites links of yours rb, as we have a lot in common and I'm sure I will like whatever you send.

Rb

insafehands wrote:

Could you PM me any favourites links of yours rb, as we have a lot in common and I'm sure I will like whatever you send.

PM Sent.

Washout

rb_ie wrote:

PM Sent.

me too rb

cheers

Rb

Washout wrote:

me too rb

cheers

Done.

jimbling

Flipper wrote:

Mel Judah told me an hilarious story from the first episode. Jamie Gold makes it about $100k to go pre-flop and confidently, Doyle Brunson looks at him and says "son, this isn't a tournament... you can't push us around like that". He then makes it $500k!!! Gold folds. Brilliant

watched it last night.... not quite this extravagant, but still quite funny.

NewsEvents

rb_ie wrote:

Done.

me too, please.

Cheers.

Rb

NewsEvents wrote:

me too, please.

Cheers.

Sent.

Mr. Flibble

Does anyone know anything about the new faces at the table? Are they well known net players?

Silver-Tiger

RB
could you please PM me the link
Cheers

Tar.Aldarion

Ah, enjoyed the episode.

B U B B L E

can you pm me the link too please rb? ty

insafehands

It's available on YouTube now.

opr

Few others you might enjoy.

Cash poker is another new show that came out this week. They have 3 tables going at once and concentrate on just one. The stakes are not as high as HSP but its still better than most of the other poker shows.

The full tilt million dollar cash game that is being aired on sky showed the 3rd episode this week and its well worth a watch this week much better than the other two. . How does Gus do it !!!!

They are both available through cousins.

Another one i am interested in but have not seen yet is Live At The Bike. Cousins are coming over in a while with a few episodes.

Read some good things about it.

"Live at the Bike is one of the most informative poker shows around. You get to see every hand played during a 3 hour webcast from a high stakes live cash table from The Bicycle Casino in Southern California"

"If you're looking for poker entertainment, then this isn't for you. High Stakes Poker from GSN is probably more your cup of tea (or WPT, WSOP, etc.). This is more raw, uncut and educational than it is entertaining."

I'll let you know what i think. Anyone seen it ??

Opr