Players for High Stakes Poker Second Season Announced
 

From the "latest news" section of ALL IN magazine's website, posted Monday, April 10:

High Stakes Poker Season Two Participants Announced
Author: Eric Raskin

On the same day that the finale of the first season of the highly popular High Stakes Poker airs (check it out at 9 p.m. EST tonight on GSN, with exciting new cash-game action plus recaps from the entire season of play), the second season of HSP gets underway at the Palms Casino. At noon Vegas-time today, the first of two days of filming will commence, and allinmag.com has exclusive access to the complete list of names confirmed to play over the course of the next two days.

Returning from Season One:
Daniel Alaei
Doyle Brunson
Todd Brunson
Freddy Chamanara
Eli Elezra
Antonio Esfandiari
Sam Farha
Jennifer Harman
Daniel Negreanu
Shawn Sheikhan
Mimi Tran

New to the action for Season Two:
Amnon Filippi
David Grey
Phil Laak
Erick Lindgren
Minh Ly
Mike Matusow
Mike Mizrachi
Corey Zeidman

And our inside sources at High Stakes Poker tell us to look for a few surprise players to jump into the action in addition to the 19 names listed above. Stay tuned to allinmag.com for updates on who those players are and on all other breaking news regarding High Stakes Poker.

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Cunningham and Ivey, I hope anyway

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I was just talking to the Grinder about that...he says they just starting taping this week and he did pretty well that first day.

Good Luck Michael!

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Sweet, no Johnny Chan! He fully sucked the life out of every hand he was in.

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Mike Matusow vs sheikie anyone?

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Doyle Brunson


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Mike Mizrachi


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lord oh mighty lord

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this is gonna be good

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New to the action for Season Two:
Amnon Filippi

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This is my reason for watching...

btw...I have no idea who this guy is, ROFL.

The list looks good though. Thanks for the post.

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Nice list, curious about Minh. Would like to see Forrest again.

Battle between Sheiky and Matusow hehe [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

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I'm really going to miss Greenstein and Forrest.

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Where is IVEY?

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What? No Hellmuth? I don't get to watch "the world's best poker player" getting owned again? Please, tell me this is wrong!

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I'm really going to miss Greenstein and Forrest.

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Totally. Forrest was one of the handful of players there from whom I felt I could really learn something from just by watching the few hands he was in.

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lol agreed, Chan was a real drag to the show and a total nit.

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Weres Freddy Did he head south [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

Get rid of Mimi and I liked Jerry Buss

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Any idea when these episodes will start airing?

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Corey Zeidman? Isn't that the guy who slowrolled Jen Harman in the WSOP with the straight flush? Is he actually any good, or is he just in for exactly this reason?

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Any idea when these episodes will start airing?

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Monday, June 5

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Any idea when these episodes will start airing?

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Monday, June 5

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ZOMG TOO LONG

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lol agreed, Chan was a real drag to the show and a total nit.

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No doubt. Everyone should just be required to play every hand preflop!!

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i wanna see chau giang and gus hansen with forrest and greenstein comin back

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I'd reckon Hellmuth would be one of the "surprise" players, he'll probably only bring 2 buy-ins and donk them off in short order.

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Phil Laak...nooooooooooooo

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lol agreed, Chan was a real drag to the show and a total nit.

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Thing is, he's like this in normal games ever since he played 4/8 years ago at the Nugget. He's a class A douche that can't dress to save his life.

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Where is IVEY?

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My guess is he chooses not to play to:

1. avoid publicity
2. avoid showing his cash game play on TV

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i'm lookin forward to seeing Minh Ly play

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Returning from Season One:
Daniel Alaei
Freddy Chamanara

why??

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No Forrest, Greenstein or Ivey is not good at all, but it's a good show nonetheless and I'm sure will continue to entertain.

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Will Amnon Filippi do Sudoku at this table, as well? That'd pwn.

Also, Matusow is taking the honorary Phil Hellmuth tiltomatic role.

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i'm lookin forward to seeing Minh Ly play

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if you think chan is a huge nit, apparently minh ly is worse. he will went until the bb passes him and then post the sb or something like that. negreanu talks about him in his blog.

why are you guys ragging on chan, just because he was playing tight? some ppl don't like to gamble as much...that's chan's style is known to trap. he will up other ppl's bluffing frequency because others think they can push him off a hand. just because he plays tight makes him a nit and a douche?

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i'm lookin forward to seeing Minh Ly play

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if you think chan is a huge nit, apparently minh ly is worse. he will went until the bb passes him and then post the sb or something like that. negreanu talks about him in his blog.



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Hmm...I didn't know about this. I was going off of Barry G's player analysis which said he was pretty LAG

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Daniel Alaei is a very good player, but who is that Chamanara guy anyhow? Going all in with AJ preflop against Chan was probably the worst play of the season.

I wonder if Ivey really doesn't want to play because of the cameras.

I'm a bit disappointed. No Barry (seriously, if you were a billioner who had to stake someone in that game over a period of 5 years, would you put your money on someone else?), no Ted, no Juanda or Cunningham and no online pros (excluding Alaei).

Oh well, still gonna be fun.

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why is corey zeidman playing? lol hes the douche who slowrolled harman LOL

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Too bad about Greenstein and Forrest. Everyone else is right, Johnny Chan really added nothing to the game. However one player that I don't think anyone has mentioned and I felt played superb poker was Freddy Deeb. Could Deeb and Chan both have removed themselves because of the 'going south' incident? Chan was a humorless nit - I always thought Freddy was funny and livened up the game.

Obviously I will miss the Hellmuth donk-bet.

Matusow and Laak I'm not thrilled to see - the addition of all these tournament players could be good for the action. Still, I can't imagine they're properly rolled for a game like this, so they might play very tight, Matusow excepted because he's a true degenerate.

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Matusow and Laak I'm not thrilled to see - the addition of all these tournament players could be good for the action.

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Just because you know them from tv that doesn't mean they're tournament players.

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OSU, I may be the only person who will ever get that joke...and while I find it funny, it also makes me sad sad sad.

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Returning from Season One:
Daniel Alaei
Freddy Chamanara

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Alaei, I will agree, was pretty uninspiring. But I'm actually glad to see Chamanara back, because it's fun (to me, at least) to see the amateurs line themselves up against the pros. Like watching Buss mix it up in episodes 12 & 13: I was really pulling for him, and I'm actually sorry that he's not coming back. Fred held his own even though Nasseri kept trying to "outplay" him, and other than that rediculous push with AJs, he played pretty well. Mixing in the rich amateurs with the pros makes for an interesting dynamic. The fish and the sharks are not always who one would expect.

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Laak plays big NL cash games. In fact I think he's easily one of the favorites in this lineup. He's up against mostly strong limit players, and some tourney players.

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lol agreed, Chan was a real drag to the show and a total nit.

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Thing is, he's like this in normal games ever since he played 4/8 years ago at the Nugget. He's a class A douche that can't dress to save his life.

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Lots of Chan hate in this thread. Considering the tone of this post, and the fact that he comes off as a pretty likeable guy, I gotta rack this one up to unadulterated jealousy. You should all hope to go from being a "nit" at 4/8 to a "nit" at 4K/8K.

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Where is IVEY?

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at the 4k-8k table