High Stakes Poker Season 6

High Stakes Poker season 6 premieres on GSN Sunday, February 14 at 8 PM. Reruns will air at 11 PM and 2 AM. 13 episodes will air. Gabe Kaplan will do commentary (AJ Benza is gone) and Kara Scott will do interviews from the floor. Each episode will include a new segment called "Did You Know?" where Daniel Negreanu will give a brief lesson about the game, e.g. in the first episode he'll explain the origin of the term "Dead Man's Hand." Blinds will be $400/800 with a $200 ante and a $200,000 minimum to $500,000 maximum buyin. Prop bets will not be allowed.

We know the starting lineups from the three days of taping in November. Known replacement players are also mentioned below. The episodes will be shown in the same order.

Day 1:

• Phil Hellmuth
• Tom "durrrr" Dwan
• Phil Ivey
• Daniel Negreanu
• Gus Hansen
• Antonio Esfandiari
• Dario Minieri
• Andreas Hoivold

Eli Elezra, Jason Mercier, and Phil Laak replaced players later.

Day 2:

• Tom "durrrr" Dwan
• Phil Ivey
• Daniel Negreanu
• Patrik Antonius
• Barry Greenstein
• Dennis Phillips
• Lex Veldhuis
• Andrew "good2cu" Robl

Phil Laak replaced a player later.

Day 3:

• Phil Ivey
• Tom "durrrr" Dwan
• Daniel Negreanu
• Doyle Brunson
• Mike Matusow
• Bertrand "Elky" Grospellier
• David Benyamine
• Eli Elezra

Phil Galfond and Lex Veldhuis replaced players later.

There may be other replacement players that haven't been revealed. Dwan, Ivey, and Negreanu played all three days. 

More details on High Stakes Poker season 6:

• Gus Hansen, Phil Galfond, Lex Veldhuis, and Andrew "good2cu" Robl blogged about their experiences playing.
• Logos will be allowed for the first time. 
• PokerStars is reportedly sponsoring the show.
• Barry Greenstein is expected to do another one of his charitable fundraising drives for saying a poker phrase on the show. This time it's "bing blang blaow."
• Tom "durrrr" Dwan was going on little sleep at the day one taping, as he'd been busy losing millions to Isildur1 online just prior to filming.
  
• Greg Raymer talked about why he consistently refuses his invitations to play on High Stakes Poker (he's not bankrolled for the game).
• Card Player interviewed Kara Scott and Mori Eskandani at the day one taping (video). 

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