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Poker Players Want AJ Benza Back On High Stakes Poker

Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010

Come Back AJ Benza

Come Back AJ Benza

The sixth season of one of the most popular poker TV shows, High Stakes Poker, is airing and we are seeing a great group of players on our TV screens. However it still seems like some of the poker players in the audience are not entirely satisfied with the how the show is carrying on now that co-commentator AJ Benza is out of the picture.

As we reported earlier, Kara Scott stepped in to co-host the show with Gabe Kaplan. Her role this season is fairly different from the one that AJ Benza used to play and the audience does not seem to have a problem with her being in the show (in fact, most of them love her being there), but they wish they had AJ Benza there again.

The audience of High Stakes Poker stated they feel as if the producers were trying to fix something that was not broken by taking Benza out of the show and have come together to create an online petition to bring AJ Benza back, and they have posted it on the 2+2 Forum.

At the time producers announced that Benza would not continue to be on the show, Benza himself was disappointed. The signatures are coming really fast and the petition is one of the hottest topics on the forum at the moment. Will it work?

High Stakes Poker Season 6, Episode 1

Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010

High Stakes Poker Season 6 - Episode 1

High Stakes Poker Season 6 - Episode 1

The most popular poker TV show is finally back with its sixth season airing on GSN. The first episode aired last night and it was full of exciting action as well as a great display of skill by all the players present.

On Sunday GSN ran a marathon of season 5 that brought so many memories to all of us as we were able to appreciate how good it was again. The sixth season promises to have a lot of fast play and interesting interactions between the players.

Phil Hellmuth, Phil Ivey, Andreas Hoivold, Daniel Negreanu, Gus Hansen, Tom Dwan, Antonio Esfandiari and Dario Mineri are all on the first table sitting left to right, respectively. Ivey and Dwan decided to bring $500,000 to the table and all the other players brought the required buy-in of $200,000. Some other faces that you should expect to see on the show are Barry Greenstein, Doyle Brunson, Sammy George, Daniel Negreanu, Jevgeny Timoshenko, among others.

Gabe Kaplan is back for the commentaries and he has brought Kara Scott as the new co-host for the show. The first episode is now available online and all of them will be right after the day they air on GSN.

High Stakes Poker Season 6 To Air In February

Tuesday, February 9th, 2010

Kara Scott to Host High Stakes Poker Season 6

Kara Scott to Host High Stakes Poker Season 6

The most popular TV poker show out there, High Stakes Poker, announced that they will be airing the sixth season starting on February 14th. They have a complete line-up of poker champions and cash game specialists and we get to watch all of the action on GSN.

The sixth season of High Stakes Poker will not feature novices, but one of the toughest line-ups of professional poker players ever seen, and they will be buying into the show for a minimum of $200,000 each. The pros attending this season are:

  • Patrik Antonius
  • David Benyamine
  • Doyle Brunson
  • Tom Dwan
  • Eli Elezra
  • Antonio Esfandiari
  • Barry Greenstein
  • Phil Hellmuth
  • Andreas Hoivold
  • Phil Ivey

Apart from the impressive list of players, High Stakes Poker has a new co-host. It is beautiful professional poker player Kara Scott who will be accompanying Gabe Kaplan in the hosting of the show.

This is a dream show for any poker fan; you get two smart hosts – one of them being outstandingly good looking – and you can also learn from all the poker pros. The first show will be airing on February 14th at 8:00pm (ET) and there will be encore airings Sundays at 11:00 PM and 2:00 AM (ET) on GSN.

Kara Scott Signs With Party Poker

Tuesday, January 26th, 2010

Kara Scott Teams Up With Party Poker

Kara Scott Teams Up With Party Poker

Online poker room PartyPoker recently announced the addition of Kara Scott to their repertoire of pro players. Kara Scott has been a professional poker player and poker TV shows host for a long time and she had not signed a sponsorship deal with any other poker room yet. Kara will be part of PartyPoker’s pro team.

Kara Scott was born in Canada but she has lived in the United Kingdom since 1999. She is the girlfriend of professional poker player Brian Townsend and they currently live together in the UK.

At the tables, Kara has had some outstanding performances during the past few years, such as her 2nd place finish at the Irish Poker Open, and she became the second woman ever to cash twice at the WSOP Series in 2009. Her poker career earnings are about $550,000.

From now on, Kara will represent PartyPoker in poker tournaments around the world and she will have her own blog on the poker room’s website. You can also catch Kara on High Stakes Poker this year as she will be co-hosting the show.  Kara is also a regular on the ‘On the Rail’ podcast.