The popular television show High Stakes Poker (HSP) will film their fifth season at the famous Golden Nugget on Freemont Street in Las Vegas Nevada. Filming will take place there over 3 days December 19th – 21st 2008. This season will feature the players playing No-Limit Texas Hold’em and will be forced to buy-in for $200,000 USD.

High Stakes Poker is the brain child of two industry leaders in poker, recent Poker Hall of Fame inductee Henry Orenstein and Mori Eskandani. These two men have created a poker show that is a must watch among pros and amateurs alike, the mere fact that these players are risking enormous sums of their own personal money.

The show has made some players become house hold names over night, such as “Yukon” Brad Booth and his infamous bluff on Phil Ivey, where Brad dropped a million dollars into the middle of the table with 2s 4s for a gut shot straight draw and back door flush draw against Phil’s pocket kings. Another famous hand was when Daniel Negreanu and Gus Hansen mixed it up with quads vs. over full house for over a half million dollars.

The poker television show is hosted by Gabe Kaplan and A.J. Benza two industry titans. In past years the show has featured the likes of Daniel Negreanu, Phil Ivey, Doyle “Texas Dolly” Brunson, Jamie Gold, Mike Matusow, Gus Hansen, Patrik Antonius, Tom “Durrr” Dwan, and countless others. Last year the players had a side bet during the game in which every player had to give a player at the table has to given the winner of the pot $500 if he/she tables 7-2. This very prop bet led to Phil Hellmuth Jr. making a huge bluff on Mike “The Mouth” Matusows’ pocket kings and eventually made Matusow fold.

The Game Show Network ( GSN) has poker Sunday’s in which it shows High Stakes Poker and World Poker Tour Season VI. This is there so called bread and butter as these are two of their highest rated poker shows. Be sure to tune in and watch as High Stakes Poker always features great hands and great action, and will also tend to include some witty cracks from the various characters at the table.