The changing of the guard on the commentary team of High Stakes Poker is no small thing. Gabe Kaplan’s retirement from the highly rated show shocked many when it happened, but having been replaced by Nick Schulman, will we miss Kaplan more than we currently think, or has he foreseen the future of poker broadcasting […]

FIVE THINGS is a column, written by PocketFives President and Editor in Chief, Lance Bradley that covers pressing topics and current events in the poker world today. It appears periodically at PocketFives.com. When Poker Central announced two weeks ago that they had acquired the rights to the High Stakes Poker brand and archive from GSN, […]

Poker Central has acquired the brand and assets for High Stakes Poker, the company announced on Tuesday, and will begin streaming episodes of the show on the PokerGO platform in the coming months. Additionally, Poker Central is said to have future plans for the series, including new episodes.

Between 2006 and 2011, cable station GSN aired seven seasons of “High Stakes Poker.” The poker show is probably this author’s favorite in the genre, a high-takes cash game featuring some of the top players in the game including the likes of Phil Ivey, Daniel Negreanu, Tom Dwan, Patrik Antonius, and Doyle Brunson. It contained […]