America’s Game Show Network will commence airing the sixth season of its popular poker television programme from February 14.
Friday 5th February 2010
The sixth season of High Stakes Poker is set to premiere on America’s Game Show Network (GSN) on February 14 featuring a line-up of poker champions, cash game specialists and promising newcomers.
The latest series will see television personality and poker player Kara Scott join co-host Gabe Kaplan from 8pm New York time showcasing action from the Golden Nugget Hotel And Casino in Las Vegas with encore airings three and six hours later.
Featuring a minimum cash buy-in of $200,000, the new season of High Stakes Poker showcases some of the world's top players including Patrik Antonius, David Benyamine, Doyle Brunson, Tom Dwan, Eli Elezra, Antonio Esfandiari, Barry Greenstein, Phil Hellmuth, Andreas Hoivold, Phil Ivey, Mike Matusow, Daniel Negreanu, Dennis Phillips and Lex Veldhuis. Scott will be seen reporting from the High Stakes Poker suite, interviewing players about strategy and table dynamics while giving viewers first-hand feedback from players after significant hands.
GSN revealed that it would lead up to the new season of High Stakes Poker with its eight-hour I Love Poker marathon on Sunday. This will see eight of the best one-hour episodes from the previous seasons broadcast beginning from noon.
“New co-host Kara Scott is well-known to European audiences as a poker player and journalist, having been the television host of the European Poker Tour in 2007 and 2008,” read a statement from GSN.
“As a player, Scott was the only woman to finish in the money in both the 2008 and 2009 World Series Of Poker main events and only the second woman in history to do so in back-to-back years. She also finished second in the 2009 Irish Open in Dublin.”
