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GSN’s High Stakes Poker Back for a Second Season

The second season of High Stakes Poker starts in June on GSN, featuring contestants from the first season (Doyle Brunson, Johnny Chan, Daniel Negreanu, Barry Greenstein, Sam Farha and Phil Hellmuth) as well as newcomers including Phil “The Unabomber” Laak, Mike Matusow, Michael Mizrachi, Erick Lindgren, John Juanda, Amnon Filippi, David Grey, Minh Ly, and Gus Hansen.

The show has proven to be one of the more popular poker broadcasts, largely because of it’s unique format. Instead of tournament play, each player is buying in and playing for real money, with a minimum buy-in of $100,000. Instead of seeing millions of tournament chips get passed around, viewers get a unique look into what a big cash game is really like, as the pots are for real money, with literally millions of dollars potentially won and lost in a single night.