High Stakes Poker was great – what poker fan didnโt love watching the worldโs most famous players and celebrities playing for enormous, life-changing sums of money?
Earlier this month, Poker Central announced that it had acquired the rights to the High Stakes Poker show, which means two things:
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We decided to reach out to some of the showโs prior participants and a few top poker pros who have made names for themselves since the last episode aired in 2011.
We asked each pro the same question: โAre you interested in participating in an upcoming season of High Stakes Poker?โ Most of them ignored us. But here were the responses we received:
Mike Matusow: โIโll play if I find backers – wanna put me in?โ
Brad Booth: โIโll play if I find backers – wanna put me in?โ
Barry Greenstein: โIโll play if I find backers – wanna put me in?โ
Erick Lindgren: โI donโt suppose Full Tilt is still paying the buy-ins?โ
Phil Laak: โIโll play if Jennifer lets me.โ
Howard Lederer: โF*ck off.โ
Jamie Gold: โIโm not falling for this again.โ
Guy Laliberte: โMaybe if they make the game bigger so they respect my raises.โ
Doug Polk: โYou think those guys will play with me?โ
Chris Ferguson: โHoward warned me youโd be reaching out. Seriously, f*ck off.โ
Daniel Negreanu: โSure Iโll play, but can we talk politics at the table?โ
Phil Galfond: โIf I have any money left after this f*cking challenge.โ
Venividi: โIโm in.โ
We were unable to get in touch with Tom Dwan, Phil Ivey, John Juanda, or Patrik Antonius directly, but one of their assistants said these players will โonly play games where the currency is Chinese Yuan.โ
We showed these responses to Mori Eskandani, who produced the original series and is involved with its return. His response:
“High stakes is a subjective term – weโll play at whatever stakes most of the original cast can still afford. Who says 1/2 NL isnโt high stakes, anyway?”
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