Longtime poker fans have a soft spot for the old Poker After Dark and High Stakes Poker TV shows. One person who had a front row seat to almost all the action was Mary Gregorich, who dealt almost every season of those shows along with other high-profile TV poker shows.
In this exclusive interview, Mary reminisces about the good old days, sharing some fascinating behind-the-scenes stories. We also learn more about what she’s up to nowadays, running Ship It Poker Cruises.
In this poker blog post I share with you one of the most incredible bluffs I’ve even seen. The bluff was recorded on High Stakes Poker and we’ve got the clip so you can join in on the fun, watching two of the game’s greats, Phil Hellmuth and Mike Matusow, in a battle of wills.
High Stakes Poker will no longer be gracing our TV screens as of today. As one of the last great poker shows fades into the sunset, Cardplayer Lifestyle fills you in on the details.
What do Doyle Brunson, Phil Hellmuth, Phil Ivey, Johnny Chan, Erik Seidel, and President Barack Obama all have in common? They will all be playing in a special poker tournament on Air Force One today. Obama, an admitted poker fan, invited the top 5 all-time WSOP bracelet winners to join him for some 6-handed action on a flight from Las Vegas to Atlantic City this afternoon.
Just a shout out to all of our fans here at the Cardplayer Lifestyle poker blog… You’ll notice there’s no recap for this latest episode of High Stakes Poker. That’s because we’re busy working hard on a new feature that will totally change your viewing experience for all the poker videos you love to watch. One we get the technical glitches worked out, you’ll never want to watch poker videos anywhere else besides the Cardplayer Lifestyle website. Indeed, we can (hopefully) promise you a totally unique poker video viewing experience.
1st hand: Croak vs. Ruffin. Ruffin hits the nut straight and overbets $50k into a pot of $16k. Croak luckily hit a runner runner flush, and yet folded it! An absolutely horrible fold, as the only hand that could beat him would be 2 higher hearts; a practical impossibility. Makes me think the show should be called FSP: Fish Stakes Poker. And to think he even bragged about his fold to the rest of the table! Antonio’s reaction is priceless :-).