Season Five of High Stakes Poker is underway

The fifth season of High Stakes Poker made its debut last night on GSN.

The show is quite popular and is well known to be on of the best poker shows currently on television. As most viewers know, there was a short time when we thought that GSN wasn’t going to renew the option to broadcast another season.

GSN announced late last year that they indeed had signed the show for another season, and the poker world was ecstatic.

There are, however, a few changes to this new season. High Stakes Poker is now being filmed at the Golden Nugget and the minimum buy-in is now $200,000. The blinds are now $400/$800 with a $200 ante.



Here was the line-up for the first episode of season five:

Tom "durrrr" Dwan
Ilari "Ziigmund" Sahamies
Peter Eastgate
Daniel Negreanu
Doyle Brunson
David Benyamine
Eli Elezra
Barry Greenstein




Tom Dwan was the center of the action in the first episode, as well as being the center of most of the conversations.

David Benyamine looked as though he had played a 96 hour session prior to arriving at the table.

The first pot of the new season was a 77k pot that was won by Tom Dwan.

The biggest pot of this episode came in a hand between Tom Dwan and Peter Eastgate.

The board read 6-5-3-6-K. Dwan bet nearly $60k on the river holding 7-6, and Eastgate chose just to call with A-6. Dwan couldn't believe that Eastgate had just called with A-6, and Eastgate was shipped the $175k pot.

The final hand of the episode was a sizable pot that involved Daniel Negreanu and Peter Eastgate.

The board read 2-2-K-J-8. Negreanu held J-2 for a full house, while Eastgate held A-K for Kings and Twos.

Eastgate led out with a bet on the river and Negreanu check-raised him. Eastgate decided to throw his hand away, and Negreanu took down the pot.

Benyamine and Negreanu both won a few decent-sized pots.

Sahamies was involved in one medium-sized pot, which came in a hand against Tom Dwan.

Dwan flopped a set of twos on a flop of 3-2-Q, while "Ziigmund" held 6-3 offsuit. After a sizable river bet from Dwan, "Ziigmund" folded his hand.

Doyle Brunson, Barry Greenstein and Eli Elezra didn't really get involved in any big hands in the first episode. However, word is out that Greenstein gets involved in a couple of monster pots this season.

News Added: 02 March, 2009

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