Tue, 03/29/2011 – 00:58 – PokerPages Staff

Team PokerStars Pro Vanessa Selbst featured in the latest episode the High Stakes Poker game show which aired on GSN on Saturday.

Selbst was joined by  Doyle Brunson, Antonio Esfandiari, Andrew Robl, Bill Klein, David Peat and Johnny Chan for the final session from the first group of Season 7.

Selbst, who has been increasingly active during recent episodes, forced Esfandiari to fold the nut straight during the early exchanges.

Selbst had turned the nut flush and a three bet to $43,000 was enough for ‘The Magician’ to muck his made hand.

Poker Hall of Famer Doyle Brunson then locked horns with Selbst after meeting the 26 year-old Yale student’s re-raise to $14,000.

Brunson checked middle pair and a flush draw on an 8-K-2 board and Selbst resisted the urge to fire with top pair top kicker.

Another check from Brunson on the Jc turn prompted Selbst to fire a $17,400 bullet. Brunson responded by moving all of his chips into the middle and Selbst called him down.

Both players agreed to run the river twice and Brunson failed to find any salvation on either as Selbst snared the huge pot.

Brunson, who bought back in for $200,000, was also involved in the final notable hand of the evening.

Esfandiari opened for $2,500 pre-flop with A-K and Peat (Q-9) and Brunson (9-9) came along for the ride.

All three players checked the 4-5-6 flop. Esfandiari hit top pair on the turn and led out for $5,600. Brunson check raised to $22,600 and Esfandiari completed.

Brunson fired another $40,000 barrel on the river as a three hit the felt. Esfandiari went into the tank before folding in fear of the four card straight.

2010 World Series of Poker Main Event champion Jonathan Duhamel and Team PokerStars Pro Jason Mercier will feature in the new line up of pros on the next episode of High Stakes Poker this weekend.

Wed, 03/30/2011 – 01:37 – PokerPages Staff

FSN begins its coverage of the Festa Al Lago World Poker Tour stop on Monday 28th at 7.00pm. Further coverage can be caught at 9.30pm and 11.00pm on Wednesday 30th, 11.00pm on Saturday 2nd April and at 7.00, 8.00 and 11.00pm on Sunday. This is the kind of poker TV that helped ignite the worldwide poker boom – well worth a watch.

Fox brings you one of the week’s highlights every night from Tuesday 29th at 2.00am – PokerStars.Net’s “The Big Game.” Watch the biggest professional poker players on TV pit their skills against talented amateurs during this hour-long rollercoaster ride. Amateur Loose Cannon qualifiers have their $100,000 buy-in tab picked up courtesy of PokerStars – and they get to keep any profit they make. It’s justly billed as “the ultimate high-stakes TV cash show.”

NBC’s “Poker After Dark” begins just five minutes later on the same night – an annoying poker programming clash, which means you’ll have to record it or The Big Game if you want to see both. But it’s quintessentially excellent TV poker – a high-stakes, winner-takes-all tournament on every evening from Tuesday through to Saturday (with a weekly wrap-up on Sunday at 2.01am). This week, Las Vegas is the location where top poker pros compete for a $120,00 first prize. 

GSN’s “High Stakes Poker” begins every hour on the hour from 3.00pm to 11.00pm on Saturday 2nd April (and again on Sunday 03rd between 7.00pm and 10.pm), you get to see top pros gamble a minimum $100,000 of they’re own hard-won cash at a turbo-charged Texas Hold’em game. Regulars include top names like Daniel Negreanu, Doyle Brunson, Patrik Antonius and Tom Dwan.