High Stakes Poker Returns for 6th Season

The Game Show Network has a special Valentine’s gift for poker fans everywhere. The sixth season of “High Stakes Poker” will premiere on Sunday and will feature an impressive lineup of players and a new look for the show.

There are no novices playing this season. Instead, it will feature an impressive lineup of professional poker players who can excite and educate viewers. The sixth season premieres with coverage from the Golden Nugget Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas. Kara Scott, the new co-host of the show and regular host Gabe Kaplan, will interview poker players about their strategy and about poker table dynamics.

The show airs at 8 p.m. ET on Sundays, with encore airings following at 11 p.m. and 2 a.m. ET. The premiere of the show will be preceded by an 8-hour “I LOVE POKER” marathon, beginning at noon ET on Sunday. The “I LOVE POKER” marathon features eight of the highlight episodes of High Stakes Poker from seasons 1 through 6.

Some of the pro players who will be shown playing during the sixth season of the show include:

* Doyle Brunson
* Eli Elezra
* Phil Hellmuth
* Phil Ivey
* Daniel Negreanu
* Patrik Antonius
* Barry Greenstein

Scoot was recently assigned the position of co-host. She might not be well known in the United States, but she is well known to European audiences as both a poker player and a journalist. She hosted television coverage of the European Poker Tour in 2007 and 2008. She finished second in the Irish Open in Dublin and was a successful player at both the 2007 and 2008 World Poker Tour Main Events.

Kaplan, who is a viewer favorite both thanks to his knowledge of poker and his ability to explain it to audiences, is returning to his sixth season of the show. Kaplan is best known as an actor; he was the teacher on the hit TV show “Welcome Back Kotter” in the 1970s and has appeared in a number of theater productions. Most recently, he has become a world-class poker player; he has appeared at the final table in six World Series of Poker main events. He has twice won the Super Bowl of Poker.