Once again, F U Phil Ivey's wallet.
Interesting thread over at 2+2 on the top winning and losing players in high stakes online games.
The list isn’t totally accurate and is more of a recent history, but still gives a good take on who is crushing and being crushed.
No real shocker, but Phil Ivey topped the list with almost $13M in winnings. Phil ‘OMGClayAiken’ Galfond was second with over $7.6M. Patrik Antonius was third with over $7.2M but actually might be closer to first as he has about $5M from other screen names and websites not accounted for in this list. Also in the top 10 was Mark Vos, a ginger, with almost $3M.
Not in the top 50? Tom ‘durrrr’ Dwan. He’s been running bad lately. So good timing on his Full Tilt deal by him.
The bottom 10 was dominated by Cirque founder Guy Laliberté, who had four of the top five losing accounts totaling around $20M. Gus Hansen was down around $5.5M.
Look at the full thread here.
Tagged as: Durrrr, Gus Hansen, Guy Laliberte, high stakes poker, Mark Vos, OMGClayAiken, Online Poker, Phil Ivey
Watch Top 5 Super Sexy Halloween Costumes of 2009 on RawVegas.tv
The above vid is
RawVegas.tv’s annual top 5 sexy Halloween costumes feature. It’s amazing how similar “Beer Wench” and “French Maid” are when you really get down to thinking about it. Anyway, to view some of their other
Peabody Award winning sexy Halloween vids, go
here here and
here. On with the links…
:: Ante Up for Africa gets the CNN spotlight. [link]
:: Kara Scott to replace AJ Benza on High Stakes Poker? [link]
:: Jim McManus tells the story of poker. Does this mean he’ll have the top two best poker books off all-time? [link]
:: The never-ending “durrrr Challenge” continued…only seven billion more hands to go. [link]
:: Not sure when exactly people will learn, but this is why you don’t list your home games on websites. [link]
:: Proof that poker is a fad…and has been since 1847. [link]
Tagged as: Durrrr Challenge, high stakes poker, Natasha Wicks, Sexy Halloween Outfits
Brandon Adams, who could give Scott Clements a run for his money in a staring contest, is one of the pros featured on High Stakes Poker.
More good news for people who like to watch people play poker on television.
While a few months ago it looked like certain death for the popular poker TV show High Stakes Poker, just the other day GSN reps confirmed that they are picking up the option on the 5th season of High Stakes Poker.
Read about it here.
Our story on HSN possibly getting 86′d last May here.
Watch our pilot episode for a show we’re pitching GSN called “Jeff Madsen’s Human Bowling and Other Stupid Things He’ll Do for a Few Bucks or Just for the Hell of It Cause He’s Drunk” here.
Video of hot chicks in bikinis handling fresh meat here.
Tagged as: GSN, high stakes poker, poker
The gang over at Pokerati is reporting that it looks like GSN’s once-top-rated poker show “High Stakes Poker” is being dropped from the network after not filming a new season for 2008. The Gabe Kaplan and AJ Benza hosted program featured some of today’s biggest pros putting up $100k or more each in a televised cash game and was somehow super popular with poker fans despite not having some super hot chick on the show.
Scratching our heads.
AJ Benza (playing Alec Baldwin in Team America above?) is apparenty chapped at GSN, saying:
“Far as Gabe and I know….the show isnt coming back. Apparently…the network is going to go in a different direction and that aint good news for our show, especially since we skew a higher-aged audiuence. Never mind that we’re the network’s No. 1 show. Still and all, no one calls us from the network to say squat. Only Kevin Bellincoff checks in periodically, but it just don’t seem like good news. If you ask me…they’re treating us like shit. All we ever did was make them a bunch of money.
Oliver Tse (at right) sheds some of his usual light on the story in a Pokerati comment (excerpt below):
HSP *** WAS *** GSN’s #1 show until WPT managed to draw over TWICE as many viewers compared to HSP, on the same day of the week in the same time slot (Mondays at 9pm Eastern/Pacific).
Once WPT posted its ratings numbers (which were good enough for WPT to collect the first tier of ratings bonus, but is certainly not good enough for WPT to continue to sell itself as a “sport” due to the older audience skew), I suspected immediately that HSP would NOT be renewed.
The big question: will GSN renew WPT by the June 1, 2008 deadline?
For the complete discussion on the above, including good commentary from Tse, KevMath and California Jen, go here.
For video example of how to spice up any television show with low ratings go here.
Watch all of Season IV of High Stakes Poker here.
Tagged as: AJ Benza, gabe kaplan, GSN, high stakes poker, wpt
Gabe Kaplan, the poker player most famous for captaining ABC’s Battle of the Network Stars team throughout the late ’70s, which included groovy hot ladies like Kristy McNichol, Suzanne Somers, Cheryl Tiegs and the Official Wicked Chops Poker Girl of 1978, Cheryl Ladd (at right), can be kind of a dick as co-host of GSN’s “High Stakes Poker.”
During last week’s season finale, Kaplan’s HSP sidekick A.J. Benza, a man who doesn’t know crap about poker, was once again upset with Kaplan’s constant ribbing of him, complaining on air to Kaplan, “You can’t be nice? We’re this close to being over for the season.”
Kaplan replied, or maybe he retorted, we’re not sure, “Let me say what I feel honestly, … I don’t think you know anything about poker. I don’t think you belong on this show.”
TVWeek.com reports however that “the hostility is somewhat disingenuous,” quoting GSN prez Rich Cronin as saying, “Gabe brings his successful professional poker-playing experience and background as a comedian to ‘High Stakes Poker.’ Along with his co-host, A.J. Benza, they mirror the good-natured ribbing that occurs between the players on the telecasts.”
“High Stakes Poker” will return for its fourth season this year, with filming getting underway this May at the South Point Hotel, Casino and Spa in Las Vegas.
Tagged as: gabe kaplan, high stakes poker
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