Unless you’ve been living in a cave with no wifi you’ll know that High Stakes Poker is making a comeback.
PokerGo bought the rights to the show and have been busy at work making this comeback season 8 a huge hit.
First of all, Gabe Kaplan and AJ Benza are back in the commentary booth, much to the joy of every poker player out there. When season 7 took to the air with Norm McDonald taking up Gabe’s< role, no one was too happy.
High Stakes Poker Season 8 Line Up
This is an all-star cast, with players even popping out of retirement to play in this juicy game.
We see legends from earlier seasons like Phil Ivey, Tom Dwan, Phil Hellmuth return to the felt as well as top pros like Brandon Stevens, Nick Petrangelo, James Bord, Lynne Ji, Jason Koon, Jake Daniels and Doug Polk and then the reason they are all there, we have some VIPs in the mix like Facebooks senior executive Chamath Palihapitiya, Phillies Pitcher and businessman Michael Schwimer and self-proclaimed game starter and 5 high all-in expert Jean-Robert Bellande.
Check out the Teaser here
The Stakes are high
Shot over a few different days, the cash games started at $200/$400 and then the action got kicked up to a cool $400/$800 with an ante in play.
With a minimum buy-in of $200,000 you can expect to see some huge pots and with the teaser hinting to a few sick coolers and a 3 way all-in featuring Tom Dwan we are super excited to see this game.
From the Best Poker Producer
Mori Eskandani has let us wait 9 years for this exciting come back and the now Poker Hall of Famer has done so much for poker through the years.
Mori, who was originally a Poker Pro himself took to producing some of the first-ever Poker TV shows like Poker Superstars. This was a Sit’n Go type formula where the players would gather points and the best players would progress to a final.
This early Poker show included the skills of Phil Ivey, Gus Hansen, Phil Hellmuth, Chip Reese and loads of other poker legends.
Check out this epic compilation of Phil Hellmuth on blind tilt against Freddy Deeb.
How can we watch this?
High Stakes Poker returns to our screens on PokerGO on Wednesday, December 16th at 8p.m. ET.
So if you like me haven’t yet signed up for PokerGo, maybe it’s worth treating yourself this holiday season and watching some of the biggest action in some time!
If you don’t have the extra $14.99 a month to subscribe, don’t worry, we are going to bring you some of the best of the action, right here at New Online Poker!