High Stakes Poker Season 6 Episode Guide & Spoilers
High Stakes Poker is a cash game poker television program which is broadcasted by the cable television network GSN in the United States. On February 14th, 2010 its 6th season was begun. Get information about Episode guide and Spoilers of High Stakes Poker Season 6.
As an analyst, Gabe Kaplan will return to host his sixth season of the show and Kara Scott will join for hosting duties to him. Scott finished in second place at the Irish Open in Dublin, and she has chased in the World Series of Poker main event in each of the last two years.
Once again, the top professional poker players in the world in a cash-game format will be featured by Season six and the minimum buy-in will be $200,000. At the Golden Nugget Hotel and Casino in Downtown Las Vegas, Season sixth’s premiere took place.
Kaplan (as a world class poker player for more than 30 years) is no stranger to high stakes games and tournaments. The final table in six World Series of Poker events has been made by him. The Super Bowl of Poker twice has been won and third in the WPT 2004 Mirage Poker Showdown has been finished by him. To date, in career tournament winnings, over one-million dollars has been earned by Kaplan.
Kara Scott a self-described massive poker geek and co-host of High Stakes Poker, is one of the top female poker players in the world and well-known TV personality and journalist. For the European Poker Tour in 2007 and 2008, Scott served as the television host. Scott was Born in northern Alberta, Canada and moved to the United Kingdom in 1999.
Players of High Stakes Poker Season 6:
Tom Dwan
The nickname of Tom Dwan is “durrrr” who has a huge following in the online community. In spite of his young age, he is a player of a high-stakes cash game with remarkable success. He is considered one of poker’s premier cash game players.
Eli Elezra
A native of Israel, Israeli army was served by Eli Elezra in a commando unit similar to the Green Berets in the United States. He won his 1st World Series bracelet in 2007 in 7-card stud hi/lo and he owns a WPT title too.
Antonio Esfandiari
“The Magician” is the nickname of Antonio Esfandiari because he was a professional magician before becoming a poker player. Career live tournament winnings in excess of $3.56 million.
Barry Greenstein
He was called “Robin Hood of Poker”. He donates his winnings to charity. He is the winner of three WSOP bracelets, the latest in the 2008 $1500 Razz event, and two WPT titles. In excess of $6.97 million as of 01/22/2010, career live tournament winnings, and ranks 25th on the all-time money list. A copy of his book Ace on the River is signed and given by him to any player who knocks him out of a tournament.
Gus Hansen
Gus Hansen Known as “The Great Dane” and “Gambling Gus”. He is the only player in history who have won 3 WPT open titles, and in the 2008, his 4th WPT Championship at Bellagio was won by him with 2nd position.
Phil Hellmuth
1989 World Champion, and his 11th World Series bracelet in 2007 was won by him and he is only one person in history to do so. The opportunity has been given by his fame to be involved in many businesses on the side, and he is highly acknowledged as the game’s best self-promoter.
Andreas Hoivold
He was born in Sunderland, England, a 37 year-old professional poker player but now hails from Kristiansand, Norway. He won the 2007 EPT Dortmund, good for $880,000. “Cartoon Collector” is the nickname and at one time owned the largest comic book collection in Norway.
Phil Ivey
He is the winner of seven WSOP bracelets. In excess of $12.26 million as of 01/22/2010, Career live tournament winnings, and his rank on the all-time money list is 2nd.
Phil Laak
He usually wears hooded sweatshirt and sunglasses so that his nickname is “The Unabomber”. He won the PartyPoker.com World Open V in London in October, 2009, good for $225,000 and holder of one WPT invitational title.
Jason Mercier
He lives in Ft. Lauderdale, FL and called “treysfull21″. The 2008 EPT European Poker Championships High Roller Event, good for $945,000 was won by him. In the 2009 WSOP, he had five cashes, including winning his first bracelet in a $1500 Pot-Limit Omaha event, totaling $729,000.
Dario Minieri
“Supermova” is the nickname of Dario Minieri who is the native of Rome, Italy. In 2008, he is winner of one WSOP bracelet in a $2500 no-limit hold’em event.
Daniel Negreanu
Daniel Negreanu is one of poker’s most likeable and recognizable personalities and Dubbed “Kid Poker”. He owns four WSOP bracelets, the latest in a 2008 WSOP $2000 limit hold’em event, and two WPT titles.
Patrik Antonius
Now he is living in Monte Carlo, native of Helsinki, Finland. He also has home in Las Vegas. He has a huge following in the Internet community and in the world, considered one of the best short-handed high-stakes cash game players. He is Cool, calm, and calculating at the tables, with a tendency to never go on tilt.
Dennis Phillips
Originally, he is from Cottage Hills, IL, but now lives in St. Louis; MO. He was a member of the 2008 WSOP November Nine, and finished 3rd in the Championship Event, good for $4.51 million. For a commercial trucking company, he worked as an account manager.
Andrew Robl
Andrew Robl nickname is”good2cu” and one of poker’s up-and-coming young guns. He moved to Las Vegas when he turned to pursue his career as a professional poker player and to play more tournaments but he is born and raised in East Lansing, MI. When he not at the tables, he enjoys lifting weights, clubbing, reading, and traveling.
Lex Veldhuis
Now he splits his time between Rotterdam and Las Vegas as a jet-setting pro. Currently he is woking in “multitables high-stakes cash games”, with screenname name “RaSZi,” and has topped the PokerStars Tournament Leader Board twice. A former gamer, his friend Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier (who made his first online deposit for him) encouraged.
David Benyamine
He is the native of France, but now lives in Las Vegas. One WPT open title and one WPT invitational title is owned and in the $10,000 Omaha Hi/Lo World Championship in 2008, his first WSOP bracelet was won by him. In his early career, he was a professional tennis player but had to retire because of shoulder pain.
Doyle Brunson
At the age of 76, he is the author of several books, including Super System and Super System II, perhaps the greatest player of all time. He had the WPT Five Diamond World Poker Classic renamed the Doyle Brunson Five Diamond World Poker Classic in his honor in 2007.
Phil Galfond
He was born in 1985 and resides in Madison, WI who is Full-time poker professional. Regularly, he is competing against the likes of durrrr, Ivey, Hansen, Benyamine, and others, considered one of the premier online high-stakes cash game players in the world.
Bertrand Grospellier
Bertrand Grospellier now resides in London who is a pro gamer and professional poker player from France, nicknamed “ElkY”. One WPT title and one EPT title is embraced and the WPT Player of the Year award for Season 7, clinching the honor with a 3rd place finish in the 2009 WPT Championship was won by him.
Mike Matusow
He is one of poker’s most recognizable players, and Known as “The Mouth” for trash talking at the tables. A $100,000 prop bet with Ted Forrest was won by him at the beginning of the 2008 WSOP by losing more than 50 pounds since the 2007 WSOP, weighing in at a svelte 179. In May 2009, autobiography was released by him entitled Check-Raising the Devil, a candid and revealing look at his life and the battles he’s faced with demons over the years.