ShareFans of televised poker are in for a treat when season 9 of High Stakes Poker hits the screens, Daniel Negreanu, Phil Ivey, Tom Dwan and Jennifer Tilly among the star-studded line-up in the big-money cash game...
One example lineup for you all to see when the shows are released… https://t.co/4XcDidT84Y
— Daniel Negreanu (@RealKidPoker) December 5, 2021
Negreanu tweeted out to his almost 500k followers: “I will be appearing on High Stakes Poker this season and you will all be very excited to see some of these lineups!”
When quizzed as to whether it was a livestreamed show, he answered: “No. Old school where it’s edited and made into a great show commentated by Gabe and AJ.”
Gabe Kaplan and AJ Benza, that is, who hosted this year’s season 8, as well as the first 5 seasons of the iconic poker show.
According to the leaked line-ups, season 9 is also an old-school revival of the players, with Tilly’s pic featuring Tom Dwan and Phil Ivey side-by-side, and Dwan tweeting out a pic which seems to show the granddaddy of poker, Doyle Brunson, to his immediate left.
Real cash bundles can be seen – a definite flavour of the good old days when High Stakes poker first hit the screens back in January of 2006.
Almost 16 years later and it looks like another great season is on the cards, with Garrett “G-Man” Adelstein in the mix and loving it...
Surreal week playing on High Stakes Poker, easily my favorite hour of the week as a viewer for years. Even in my most ambitious of fantasies, I never envisioned I could land here. Somehow the stakes only get bigger the rest of the week, so inevitably I will run very very hot ☀️
— Garrett Adelstein (@GmanPoker) December 4, 2021
Meanwhile, Daniel Negreanu let us all in on a little secret, answering a question that has crossed the mind or lips of every fan of the game.
“I have precisely 100% of myself,” Kid Poker revealed, so when he passes bricks of cash back and forth you can be sure it’s all his own.
Bryn Kenney, who was toppled from his throne in the all-time tournament moneywinners list this week by Justin Bonomo is another huge name we’ll see, and Jean-Robert Bellande will be hoping he doesn’t live up to his “broke living” moniker.
Season 9 is due to premiere in February on PokerGO and we’ll be bringing you the best of the action when it does, right here on HighStakesDB.
High Stakes Poker History
HSP was a ground-breaking show when it first appeared back in January 2006, with Daniel Negreanu buying into the minimum $100k cash game with a cool $1million.The next two years saw 4 series filmed and broadcast from the Golden Nugget (Series 1), Palms (Series 2) and then South Point casinos (series 3 and 4) in Las Vegas, before returning to the Golden Nugget for seasons 5 and 6, then on to the Bellagio for season 7.
That seventh and “final” season, which coincided with poker’s Black Friday, was sponsored by PokerStars and was thus missing the Full Tilt pros who had previously appeared, including Dwan, Ivey, Jennifer Harman, Patrik Antonius, Eli Elezra and Mike Matusow.
The highly-anticipated revival of the show last year was filmed at pokerGO’s studios in the Aria resort and Casino and featured the likes of Phil Hellmuth, Rick Salomon, Jason Koon, Bryn Kenney, Brandon Adams, Nick Petrangelo, and Doug Polk, battling it out along with HSP stalwarts Dwan and Ivey.
High stakes poker coming back guys. Hope I run as good as last time pic.twitter.com/m8auOjG2ic
— Tom Dwan (@TomDwan) October 27, 2020
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