High Stakes Poker on GSN CancelledThere are countless poker blogs reporting that GSN will not be renewing the very popular online cash game poker show. Normally, by this point of the year the program would be filming new episodes.

High Stakes Poker host AJ Benza was quoted saying: “Far as Gabe and I know… the show isn’t coming back. Apparently… the network is going to go in a different direction and that aint good news for our show, especially since we skew a higher-aged audience. Never mind that we’re the network’s No. 1 show. Still and all, no one calls us from the network to say squat. Only Kevin Bellincoff checks in periodically, but it just doesn’t seem like good news. If you ask me… they’re treating us like s**t. All we ever did was –‘make them a bunch of money’.”

One of the main rumors for not renewing the show is the leave of Rich Cronin, who was the former GSN president. He was the driving force bringing in the poker shows on the network, and it looks like the new management has a new direction.

This is extremely surprising if this is the decision and new direction of the Game Show Network. It wasn’t long ago that GSN picked up the broadcast rights to the World Poker Tour. Having both the WPT and High Stakes Poker programs made GSN a power house of quality poker television. Folding on the profitable High Stakes Poker program will be a loss to the poker community. Especially, after a fantastic season four which originally aired last year.

Season four featured big time poker players and gamblers that included: Patrik Antonius, Daniel Negreanu, Mike Matusow, Phil Hellmuth, Doyle Brunson and the list goes on. There were several memorable moments from this season that will go down in history. The hand between Jamie Gold and Doyle Brunson, where Jamie made Doyle fold a bigger flush or the 998,000 pot between Sammy Farha and Patrik Antonius.

Here is one of the most famous hands in all of High Stakes Poker: