$100K Minimum Buy In For New TV Poker Game
Published: Sunday, December 11, 2005 Online-Casinos.com
$100.000 MINIMUM BUY IN FOR NEW TV POKER GAME
GSN's High Stakes Poker is just that....
U.S. poker fans who enjoy the excitment of high value poker games on television are in for a treat from the GSN network early in the new year.
Viewers will see the first true cash game of poker on television with a $100,000 minimum buy-in.
Unlike other poker shows where the most players can lose is their initial buy-in of up to $10,000, the stars on GSN’s newest series, High Stakes Poker, have millions of their own cash at stake and can win... or lose.... several hundred thousand dollars.
The show premieres Monday, January 16 at 9 PM ET/PT.
“The TV show High Stakes Poker is groundbreaking in that it is the first-ever look into the biggest private no limit Hold ’em cash games in town,” said Rich Cronin, President and CEO of GSN. “This show is intense because poker players are winning and losing hundreds of thousands of their own dollars on single hands.”
The new hour long series features poker players from diverse backgrounds from all over the world. From the legends, to cash game players, to the young superstars that have been featured on “The World Series of Poker,” the new GSN show claims it is going to be the first ever cash game where viewers see the ‘true’ game of poker.
Legends of the poker world are joined by elite poker playing businessmen in the 13-episode series recently taped at the Golden Nugget Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada.
The all-star line up features Doyle Brunson, Johnny Chan, Barry Greenstein, Phil Hellmuth, Daniel Negreanu, Dr. Jerry Buss (Los Angeles Lakers owner) Jennifer Harman, Ted Forrest, Bob Stupak, Antonio Esfandiari, Eli Elezra, Todd Brunson, Dr. Amir Nasiri, Freddy Deeb, Daniel Alaei, Mimi Tran, Fred Chamanara and Sam Farha.
Players are allowed to buy-in and continue playing with more money if they lose their initial buy-in of $100,000. The chips on the table represent actual dollars compared to chips in a tournament that don’t equal the actual value of what is bet.
Henry Orenstein, the executive producer of the series says: “For the first time in the history of poker on television, viewers will see players playing with very large amounts of their own money. This is what makes it exciting, the players can win huge pots that are worth nearly a half million dollars on a single card.”
In addition to the play at the tables, High Stakes Poker will also feature behind the scenes footage on the poker players and their lifestyles.
