Poker on TV
Sometimes in poker, as in life, you can’t overthink a situation. When I was a student, my mom would tell me that I was unsure about an answer on a test, my first instinct was usually the right one. In a World Poker Tour livestream this week, perhaps a player by the name of “QQQ”… Read more »
The streaming service PokerGO has delivered many a new “made for streaming” tournament series for poker fans. There seems to be one format, however, that PokerGO has not broached yet – a team competition. Here is a proposal for a team format that PokerGO might be able to get behind, and we’re going to name… Read more »
In what was likely the richest poker game ever publicly broadcast, Daniel “Jungleman” Cates beat Finland’s Ossi “Monarch” Ketola in a series of heads-up matches to profit an incredible €13 million ($15.1 million). Streamed on the Onyx Live YouTube channel as part of the Onyx Super High Roller Series Cyprus, the six one-on-one contests treated… Read more »
It didn’t take long for the bracket to be set for the $25,000 buy-in National Heads-Up Poker Championship (NHUPC) since the tournament’s revival was announced early this week. On Thursday night, the 64-player draw was held at the PokerGO Studio in Las Vegas, with the participants eagerly awaiting what their paths to the championship will… Read more »
Go get Peacock A fan-favorite poker show from the heyday of poker television is set to make its triumphant return. On Monday, PokerGO and PokerStars announced that they are bringing back the National Heads-Up Poker Championship (NHUPC), which went off the air more than a decade ago. The NHUPC will debut on the Peacock streaming… Read more »
Shuffle up and watch the deal Two rivals teaming up for the good of the people. Crazy, I know, but that’s what’s happening with GGPoker and PokerStars this summer. GGPoker, the world’s largest online poker room, owns the World Series of Poker. PokerGO is the exclusive broadcaster, via its subscription livestream service, of the 2025… Read more »
My oldest child has made her decision on where she is going to attend college, so the day I have to plunk down that first tuition (and more) payment is fast approaching. I am looking to save any dollar I can. High stakes poker players, on the other hand, happily risk multiple years of college… Read more »
Faded the flush High Stakes Poker’s popularity stems in part from, well, the high stakes for which the players play and the massive pots they can produce. And there has never been a bigger pot on the show than the one featured Monday night, when Alan Keating took down a cool $1,412,500 in a single… Read more »
GGPoker making further live poker moves NSUS Group Inc., the parent company of online poker giant GGPoker and the World Series of Poker, has acquired an equity stake in High Stakes Poker Productions, the producer of the livestream poker cash game show Hustler Casino Live. In Wednesday’s announcement, High Stakes Poker Productions said that the… Read more »
Alan Keating is not shy when comes to putting gigantic sums of money on the line at the poker table, so last week’s Million Dollar Game on Hustler Casino Live (HCL) was right up his alley. And though he was down over a million bucks Friday night, he came through with a $2.4 million score… Read more »
We’re less than a month and a half away from the 2024 World Series of Poker in Las Vegas and as much as many of us would like to attend, that’s just not going to happen. But PokerGO is there to pick up the slack, announcing livestreaming coverage that will include over 300 hours of… Read more »
When I played online poker, I needed to take a break if I lost $20 in a hand. Such is the stress of a micro-roller. If I lost nearly a million dollars and did so in hand in which I was drawing nearly dead from the start? I’d probably launch myself to the planet Dr.… Read more »
Negreanu going for the title The next round of High Stakes Duel 4 is set. PokerGO announced on Tuesday that for Round 2, Daniel Negreanu will take on old nemesis Doug Polk. Both players will buy in for $100,000. There is no set date yet, but the match-up will take place some time in August… Read more »
When he was a 22-year-old internet poker sensation, Tom Dwan won the largest pot in televised poker history. In Season 5 of High Stakes Poker (filmed in late 2008, aired in 2009), he turned trip Queens to beat Barry Greenstein’s pocket Aces and win a $919,600 pot. Last night, Queens were his friend again as… Read more »
Ethan “Rampage” Yau knows that if you have air on the river, you’re only going to win the pot if you force your opponent to fold. Most of us get nervous trying to pull off a $20 bluff, but over the weekend, Rampage took little time to risk $628,000 with nothing but Ace high on… Read more »
Because I enjoy torturing myself, I often think about what it would be like to have so much money that I don’t care about losing large chunks of it. Buy a car and can’t find it in the parking lot? No matter, just leave it. Purchase an rare NFT and then get my wallet hacked?… Read more »
There have been many poker programs created since the “boom” of the Aughts. These programs, for the most part, usually take the show “on the road” to different casinos or, on the odd occasion, a studio setting. The brains behind the popular poker program Poker Night in America have come up with a concept that… Read more »
Negreanu gets on the scoreboard It was over two years in the making, but Daniel Negreanu finally did it. He finally won a match in High Stakes Duel, beating Eric Persson in the first round of High Stakes Duel 4 Monday night. Each man brought $50,000 to the table, so Negreanu pocketed a $100,000 prize.… Read more »
The PokerGO streaming program High Stakes Duel has captured the attention of a great deal of the poker world. There’s still room for some innovation with the program, however, as PokerGO proved on Friday night. In what was a precursor for the match on Monday evening, poker veteran Mike Matusow showed that he still has… Read more »
PokerGO has announced a special edition of its popular series High Stakes Poker. Scheduled for April 27, this will not be the usual pre-taped, edited episode, but rather a livestream. The episode will air on both the PokerGO subscription service and PokerGO’s YouTube channel, which also requires a paid subscription for much of its content.… Read more »
Dusting off the highlights You ever think you spotted something special, only to find out you were the last one to the party? That just happened to poker pro Allen “Chainsaw” Kessler this week. On Monday, Kessler posted a poll, asking the poker community who they thought was a better No-Limit Hold’em player: Phil Ivey… Read more »
Never say never It looks like poker pro Garrett Adelstein will not appear on Hustler Casino Live any time in the near future, or maybe ever. Adelstein, who famously lost a $269,000 to Robbi Jade Lew on the show six months ago and subsequently accused her of cheating because she made an insane call, has… Read more »
PokerGO has announced the return of its popular poker show, No Gamble, No Future, which will premiere next Wednesday, March 22, at 8:00pm ET. The Season 2 debut will actually feature two episodes, back-to-back. From there, the show will air every Wednesday night through May. Brent Hanks and Jeff Platt will once again man the… Read more »
Can’t blame her, but still hurts With all the different streaming services we feel obligated to subscribe to nowadays, it can be tough to commit to another, especially if it’s for such niche programming like poker. So as good as PokerGO’s content has gotten, it is understandable if fans of shows like High Stakes Poker… Read more »
Nosebleed stakes history You ever buy in to a home game with $100, leave with $150, and spring for dinner like it was the best night of your life? Damn right you have. Hell, if I won a $5 sit-and-go, I was riding high for at least a couple hours. If I won nearly $2… Read more »
