High Stakes Poker Gabe Kaplan
The reboot of the popular poker show, High Stakes Poker, will in fact include the old show’s commentators — Gabe Kaplan and AJ Benza.New episodes, which have already been filmed, begin Dec. 16 exclusively on the PokerGo app.
There have been some great poker shows on television. Poker After Dark was a classic, a great enough format it has since been revived on PokerGO. The NBC Heads-Up shows were always good for some interesting confrontations, partypoker's The Big Game has delivered endless classics, and a plethora of live streams have left poker fans with an almost endless library of poker content to watch.
But there's no greater poker show than High Stakes Poker, many poker fans believe. The cash game television show premiered on January 16th, 2006 and ran for seven seasons, broadcasting for the last time May 21, 2011.
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- He is best known for his role as Gabe Kotter in the 1970s sitcom Welcome Back, Kotter but has become more visible in recent years in relation to the popularity of poker, particularly as host/commentator on High Stakes Poker on GSN. While he was actively involved in his acting career, Kaplan also became involved in financial markets and poker.
The show, which ran on GSN in the United States and found its way to poker fans all over the world, had AJ Benza and Gabe Kaplan in the commentary booth for the first five seasons before Kaplan did a solo job commentating in season six. In the final season, Kaplan was replaced by Norm Macdonald. Kara Scott conducted interviews with the players from the floor in the last two seasons.
While not new to the show, PokerStars signed on as the official sponsor in season seven, which resulted in a boycott from the Full Tilt Poker-sponsored players. The final season was not as popular as previous seasons but still made for some interesting poker tv.
High Stakes Poker is a cash game poker television program which was broadcast by the cable television network GSN in the United States. The poker variant played on the show is no limit Texas hold. Kaplan, who became famous in the 1970s for his starring role as Gabe Kotter on the hit sitcom “Welcome Back Kotter,” was the perfect color commentator for “High Stakes Poker.” He has a goofy.
While High Stakes Episodes appeared on YouTube before on numerous occasions, they usually received GSN takedown requests within days of publishing. Just last March, Doug Polk was forced to take down his analysis videos of High Stakes Poker. Some months before the takedown request, in January of this year, GSN had uploaded all the episodes to its official YouTube channel, but they were removed not much later. Now, last August, they reappeared online, now uploaded to a YouTube Channel simply called High Stakes Poker. They have since racked up hundreds of thousands of views and are all uploaded in great quality. The most popular episode is Season 6 - Episode 1 (featuring Hellmuth versus Esfandiari in flush-over-flush and Hellmuth versus Ivey in flush-over-flush) with 217,000 views. Season 4 - Episode 3 is the least popular with just 7,400 views.
Over in the PokerNews Strategy Section, we published a review of High Stakes Poker Season 1 - Episode 1 highlighting some of the strategic concepts of the first installment.
High Stakes Poker Season 1
| Casino: | Golden Nugget |
| Episodes: | 13 |
| Different players: | 18 |
High Stakes Poker Season 1 Players
| Amir Nasseri | Daniel Negreanu | Jennifer Harman | Sammy Farha |
| Antonio Esfandiari | Doyle Brunson | Jerry Buss | Shawn Sheikhan |
| Barry Greenstein | Eli Elezra | Johnny Chan | Ted Forrest |
| Bob Stupak | Fred Chamanara | Mimi Tran | Todd Brunson |
| Daniel Alaei | Freddy Deeb | Phil Hellmuth |
High Stakes Poker Season 2
High Stakes Poker Season 2 Players
| Amnon Filippi | Daniel Negreanu | Gus Hansen | Phil Laak |
| Antonio Esfandiari | David Grey | Jennifer Harman | Sammy Farha |
| Barry Greenstein | Doyle Brunson | John Juanda | Shawn Sheikhan |
| Brad Booth | Eli Elezra | Michael Mizrachi | Ted Forrest |
| Cory Zeidman | Erick Lindgren | Mike Matusow | Todd Brunson |
| Daniel Alaei | Fred Chamanara | Minh Ly |
High Stakes Poker Season 3
High Stakes Poker Season 3 Players
| Antonio Esfandiari | Dan Shak | Erick Lindgren | Paul Wasicka |
| Barry Greenstein | Daniel Alaei | Gabe Kaplan | Phil Ivey |
| Bill Chen | Daniel Negreanu | Ilya Trincher | Phil Laak |
| Brad Booth | David Benyamine | Jamie Gold | Sammy Farha |
| Brian Townsend | David Williams | Jennifer Harman | Shawn Sheikhan |
| Chris Ferguson | Doyle Brunson | John D'Agostino | Todd Brunson |
| Dan Harmetz | Eli Elezra | Patrik Antonius | Victor Ramdin |
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High Stakes Poker Season 4 Players
| Antonio Esfandiari | David Benyamine | Jennifer Harman | Phil Laak |
| Antonio Salorio | Doyle Brunson | Mike Baxter | Sammy Farha |
| Barry Greenstein | Eli Elezra | Mike Matusow | Todd Brunson |
| Bob Safai | Guy Laliberté | Patrik Antonius | |
| Brandon Adams | Haralabos Voulgaris | Phil Galfond | |
| Daniel Negreanu | Jamie Gold | Phil Hellmuth |
High Stakes Poker Season 5
High Stakes Poker Season 5 Players
| Casino: | Golden Nugget |
| Episodes: | 13 |
| Different players: | 19 |
| Alan Meltzer | David Benyamine | Ilari Sahamies | Peter Eastgate |
| Antonio Esfandiari | David Peat | Joe Hachem | Phil Laak |
| Barry Greenstein | Doyle Brunson | Mike Baxter | Sam Simon |
| Daniel Negreanu | Eli Elezra | Nick Cassavetes | Tom Dwan |
| Dario Minieri | Howard Lederer | Patrik Antonius |
High Stakes Poker Season 6
High Stakes Poker Season 6 Players
| Casino: | Golden Nugget |
| Episodes: | 13 |
| Different players: | 21 |
| Andreas Høivold | Dario Minieri | Jason Mercier | Phil Ivey |
| Andrew Robl | David Benyamine | Lex Veldhuis | Phil Laak |
| Antonio Esfandiari | Dennis Phillips | Mike Matusow | Tom Dwan |
| Barry Greenstein | Doyle Brunson | Patrik Antonius | |
| Bertrand Grospellier | Eli Elezra | Phil Galfond | |
| Daniel Negreanu | Gus Hansen | Phil Hellmuth |
High Stakes Poker Season 7
High Stakes Poker Season 7 Players
| Andrew Robl | Daniel Negreanu | Johnny Chan | Phil Ruffin |
| Antonio Esfandiari | David Peat | Jonathan Duhamel | Robert Croak |
| Barry Greenstein | Doyle Brunson | Mike Baxter | Vanessa Selbst |
| Bill Klein | Haralabos Voulgaris | Phil Galfond | |
| Bill Perkins | Jason Mercier | Phil Laak |
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