Sunday, August 02, 2009

High Stakes Poker Season 6

High Stakes Poker season 6 will air on GSN starting February 14 at 8 PM...

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High Stakes Poker season 6 will film 13 episodes at the Golden Nugget from November 11th to 13th. They will air on GSN starting February 14 at 8 PM, with reruns at 11 PM and 2 AM. AJ Benza will be replaced by a female interviewer, reportedly Kara Scott. As in the past, blinds will be $400/$800 with a $200,000 minimum and $500,000 maximum buy-in and no prop bets will be allowed. Barry Greenstein will do another charitable fundraising drive where he says a popular poker phrase on the show, this time "bing, blang, blaow."

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Posted by Self Made at Sunday, August 02, 2009
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  1. Barry Greenstein is expected to do another charitable fundraiser based on him saying a phrase on High Stakes Poker. He says "I sent a link to the Bing Blang Blaow video to Mori Eskandani, the producer of HSP, letting him know what I might end up saying." Barry seems to know almost everyone in the poker industry, including High Stakes Poker producer Mori Eskandani, so the fact that he thinks there will be a next season would seem to be a pretty reliable indicator.

    What is Bing Blang Blaow?

    "legendary $.25/.50 heads up no limit player" (quote) ch3ckraise started a thread on 2+2 saying:

    This is what I copy & paste into the chat every time I stack someone @ 50 NL HU, which is about 50% of the time.

    ch3ckraise: BING BLANG BLAOW
    ch3ckraise: CH3CK RAISE IN THA HOUSE
    ch3ckraise: I JUST WON $50.00 FROM YOU
    ch3ckraise: U COULD HAVE USED IT TO BUY SOME FOOD
    ch3ckraise: BUT YOU CANT NOW
    ch3ckraise: CUZ IMMA CASH IT OUT
    ch3ckraise: AND RUB IT ON MY TITT1ES
    tilted1: wtf
    ....

    That thread has 285,000 views as I write this. A month later this video was posted on YouTube, and it really started taking off.

    What are the Barry Greenstein/High Stakes Poker fundraising drives?

    Poker players donated over $50,000 to Barry's favorite charity, Children Inc., in gratitude for him saying "lol donkaments" on High Stakes Poker. For the next season, there was a lot of discussion of what he should should say, and they agreed on "math is idiotic," a phrase made famous (read the last post) by his son Joe Sebok. It wasn't a great fundraising success, however. This time a movement started on 2+2 to get Barry to say Bing Blang Blaow, and he eventually responded.
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  2. High Stakes Poker season 6 is expected to film in October or November, according to producer Eric Drache. See Barry Greenstein talking about Bing Blang Blaow and that on his latest blogfessional, starting at 5:07.
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  3. On the latest Inside Deal Barry says High Stakes Poker season 6 should film about October and air in the January to March range.
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  4. They will tape at least 13 weeks in the first week of November according to Eric Drache, who was on the last 2+2 Pokercast. They start talking about TV at 43:15.
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  6. They will film 13 episodes of High Stakes Poker season 6 at the Golden Nugget starting Nov. 11, Poker Listings reports. Blinds will continue at $400/$800 with a $200,000 minimum/$500,000 maximum buy-in, and no prop bets allowed.
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  7. AJ Benza is claiming they might replace him with a female cohost. Pokerati has the satellite radio clip.
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  8. AJ Benza blogged about losing the HSP hosting gig to a female cohost. He wrote about having a conference call with some GSN executives and playing the guilt card with them by talking about the family he has to feed.
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  9. AJ Benza says Kara Scott will be doing floor interviews and Gabe Kaplan will be doing the commentary alone.
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  10. Poker News Daily says High Stakes Poker season 6 will premiere February 14.
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  11. From Poker News Daily:

    While waiting to head into the “High Stakes Poker” suite, Laak explained the stance of Executive Producer Mori Eskandani towards prop betting in Season 6: “The prop bets where people would guess on cards, for example, they’ve been trying to get rid of that. Mori is trying to steer towards less betting at all. The bottom line is that he doesn’t want viewers at home to be bogged down with players prop betting in addition to poker.” Prop bets during Season 5 revolved around push-ups, movie ratings, and hole cards.
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