high stakes poker season 4?

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Great news! Just found this press release on the Internet.

Richest Cash Game in History on High Stakes Poker IV

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif., July 14 /PRNewswire/ -- GSN's HIGH STAKES POKER ("HSP") continues to be the richest cash game in history on television and the last seven episodes in season IV have up to and over $5 million on the table. HSP IV premieres on Monday, August 27 at 9 PM ET/8 CT from South Point Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada. This season features 17 episodes up from 13 episodes in season III.

Once again the world's top players and personalities face off against newcomers putting up at least $100,000 of their own cash in a private, no limit game of Texas Hold'em. HSP IV gives viewers the unique experience of watching Vegas' biggest game in action. The popular duo of Gabe Kaplan and AJ Benza return and bring their unique commentary to the series.

The line up of players includes the controversial Phil Hellmuth returning to the game after taking two seasons off, as well as the legendary Doyle Brunson, the charismatic Daniel Negreanu and 2006 WSOP champion Jamie Gold. In addition popular pros return including: Mike "The Mouth" Matusow, Jennifer Harman, Barry Greenstein, Eli Elezra, Phil "The Unabomber" Laak, Sammy Farha, and Todd Brunson.

Beginning Monday, November 5, HSP IV goes where no poker show has ever gone before as the minimum buy-in was raised up to $500,000. The final seven shows of the season feature the following players: Doyle Brunson, Jamie Gold, Daniel Negreanu, Sammy Farha, Antonio Esfandiari, Patrik Antonius, David Benyamine and Guy Laliberte. Laliberte, making his first appearance on HSP, is the owner and founder of Cirque Du Soleil. He is donating a percentage of the money he wins to his charity "One Drop."

Also appearing for the first time on HSP this season are: Mike Baxter, Brian Brandon, Brandon Adams, Phil Galfond, Bob Safai, Antonio Solorio and Haralabosa Voulgaris. Once again the players will be rotating throughout the season in the episodes.

[Dima2000123]

Cool, 17 episodes. Do they decide on the number of episodes for the season beforehand, or do they vary the number based on how much action there was? In any case, hopefully there would be a smooth flow to the tables like in season 1 and 2, and not abrupt shift changes like last season.

[Luckyspikes]

Yeahh 17 episodes !!!

Any chance to see Brian Townsend in this saison ?

[menacing_1]

Brian will not be playing this season.

[Luckyspikes]

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Brian will not be playing this season.

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[PLO8FaceKilla]

I wonder if Brad Booth is going to buy in with a Cool Million again.

[spino1i]

God I want to watch the 300/600/1200 action sooo bad! I think at this level its the first time where people have such large stacks they cant even use cash very much because it just wont fit on the table.

[Brian O'Nolan]

Really looking forward to seeing noataima making some aggressive calls.

[PequDios]

Good thing that Hellmuth is back. Just love watching him play, blow up or rant about opponents "bad play". Just wish Gus Hansen was playing also.

[SunyD]

I'm surprised Chip Reese has not been on any of the HSP seasons. When I saw the 2006 wsop HORSE event they showed on ESPN (where Chip won, heads-up against Andy Bloch) - all the commentators kept saying is how Chip is one of the best cash game players around. Even when Phil Ivey got knocked out of that tournament, they interviewed him and he said Chip is one of the best cash game players ever and he plays with him regularly.