Fri, 04/22/2011 – 14:55 – PokerPages Staff

The week’s TV poker begins at 2.00AM on Monday morning with ESNPC’s coverage of the 2009 WSOPE Main Event in London (all times are EST).  Coverage continues at 2.00AM on April 26th and 27th, 1.30AM on Thursday 28th and Saturday 30th, and also at 2.30AM on April 30th.

If you want to see some of the biggest and best poker players on TV struggling to keep tells at bay and beads of sweat away from their brows, you just have to tune in to NBC’s superb high-stakes, winner-takes-all weekly tournament, Poker After Dark.  This week’s players are Patrik Antonius, Tom Dwan, Eli Elezra, Gabe Kaplan, David Peat and Alan Meltzer; the cards start to fly at 2.05AM on Tuesday 26th and again at the same time of April 27th and 28th.  At 1.01AM on Sunday May 1st, you can catch a wrap-up of the week.

For fans of another must-watch high-stakes poker tournament – High Stakes Poker on GSN –just tune in at your choice of shows starting every hour on the hour between 3.00PM and 11.00PM on Saturday April 30th, and between 7.00PM and 10.00PM on Sunday.  Like Poker After Dark, this show just has to rank as one of the very best of the week’s poker programming highlights – poker on TV just doesn’t get better than these first rate front-runners.  Watch the pros on High Stakes Poker put up hundreds of thousands of their own dollars every week; with big names like Daniel Negreanu, Doyle Brunson, Patrik Antonius and Tom Dwan taking part regularly, you won’t be disappointed.  

Put your feet up, study every nuance and move, and enjoy.

Wed, 04/20/2011 – 03:10 – PokerPages Staff

The latest episode of the High Stakes Poker game show aired on GSN on Saturday evening.

Team PokerStars Pros Jonathan Duhamel, Jason Mercier and Barry Greenstein featured alongside Mike Baxter, Julian Movsesian and Bill Perkins.

Perkins, who has dropped over $350,000 during the session thus far, got involved in the first notable hand of the evening after flopping top pair.

Movsesian led out for $18,800 with bottom pair and Perkins jammed all-in for $46,500 with his pair of queens.

Movsesian made the call but failed to find any salvation on the turn or river as Perkins shipped the $128,000 pot.

Baxter then got the better of Greenstein to the tune of $400,000 during two consecutive hands.

Greenstein re-raised to $15,000 post flop and called down bets of $35,000 and $75,000 on the turn and river with top two pair but Baxter tabled trip fours to win the $261,000 pot.

Baxter won another six figure pot after flopping trip nines. Greenstein eventually abandoned ship on the river with two pair after a final $65,000 bullet.

2010 World Series of Poker champion Jonathan Duhamel and Mercier were both involved in the final hand of the evening.

Mercier bet $2,300 pre flop with 10-9 suited and Baxter (Q-10s) and Duhamel (6-5s) both came along for the ride.

Mercier re-raised to $13,900 with top two pair post flop and Duhamel completed with a flush draw. Baxter folded top pair.

An Ace on the turn prompted a $44,000 check-raise from Duhamel but Mercier responded by moving his $183,000 stack into the middle. Duhamel went into the tank before folding.