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.

Tue, 04/12/2011 – 01:20 – PokerPages Staff

Team PokerStars Pros Jonathan Duhamel and Jason Mercier featured in the latest episode of High Stakes Poker which aired on GSN on Saturday.

Duhamel, who booked a $100,000 profit during the first session, was involved in the first notable hand of the evening after meeting Phil Laak’s $4,200 raise with pocket queens. Bill Perkins also came along for the ride.

Perkins’ 6-5 hole cards had post flop potential and he hit a gut-shot straight draw on the 2-3-9 board.

Duhamel fired a $7,000 bullet with his overpair only for Perkins to make it $27,000 to go. Laak managed to lay down pocket rockets and Duhamel also surrendered as Perkins dragged down the pot.

Perkins was becoming increasingly active during the early exchanges and he met a check-raise all-in call from Julian Movsesian post flop.

Perkins (A-Q) was in bad shape with top pair to Movsesian’s (A-7) top two pair and the turn and river failed to help him as the $180,000 pot went Movsesian’s way.

Perkins would go on to lose $353,000 after Haralabos Voulgaris shipped a $253,000 pot with an overpair of aces.

2010 World Series of Poker Main Event champion, Duhamel then finally locked horns with Mercier.

Mercier three bet Duhamel pre flop with J-9 and led out for $14,800 on a 10-8-2 board.

Duhamel (T-9) called with top pair before Mercier fired another $36,300 bullet when a 3 hit the felt on the turn.

Duhamel obliged for the second time but was forced to muck his hand after another $71,000 bet from Mercier on the river.