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The 7th year of High Stakes Poker will be demonstrated on GSN beginning this month, but sadly there have been some changes and very few of them are great. The show will have a new host as Gabe Kaplan who was on the 1st six seasons is gone. He is being replaced by former Saturday Night Live cast member Norm MacDonald. Kara Scott will still be on the show as a co-host.



Changes
GSN is making some other changes to the show also and they do not seem positive either. The show will now include a blend of professionals and amateur competitors. High Stakes Poker will still have some top competitors like Doyle Brunson and Johnny Chan but none of the members of Full Tilt will be on the show. That means many of the top poker competitors in the world won’t be on the show this year including Phil Ivey, Tom Dwan, Patrik Antonius, Eli Elezra and Gus Hansen. The show will still have Daniel Negreanu, Antonio Esfandiari and Phil Laak but the loss of top competitors will certainly be visible. It looks like High Stakes Poker will be sponsored by PokerStars and they did not want competitors wearing Full Tilt attire.

Bellagio
The 7th year of High Stakes Poker was shot at the Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas. The 3-hour episodes will be demonstrated on GSN beginning this month. You can even watch the shows in 3D if you have DirecTV although I have no clue the reasons you would want to watch poker in 3D.

Downhill
High Stakes Poker is not destined to be the same. Gabe Kaplan was an terrific host and was well respected in the poker community. He was greater in combo with A.J. Benza but he was still great. Norm MacDonald is a comedian who is not a poker expert. Kara Scott was great in her part but she is not an analyst. The days of getting insightful poker commentary seem to be over and that’s a shame. Gabe is a quite great poker competitor and understood the high stakes game. He’ll be missed. Now it is possible to just hit the mute button due to the fact you’re not going to hear anything insightful from MacDonald. The other issue for High Stakes Poker is the loss of each of the Full Tilt competitors. Dwan made the show worth viewing all by himself. He’ll be missed as will other top Full Tilt pros.


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