High Stakes Poker - buy-in $500,000!

The famous TV show High Stakes Poker, which is the only TV show about No Limit Hold'em cash game, raises the buy-in from $100,000 to $500,000.

That means on the table will be $5,000,000 - a new dimension. There will be seven episodesof High Stakes Poker IV which will take place with the new buy-in.

According to wikipedia.de besides the SB ($300) and the BB ($600) a third blind ($1200) has been introduced. Rebuys will cost $250.000 and add-ons $50.000.

That means the legendary pot between Gus Hansen and Daniel Negreanu with nearly $700,000 will be topped for sure. In this famous hand Hansens quads were the best hand against Negreanus full house:

The players will play with their own money and will not get staked by the producers of the TV show. The line-up will be that the best poker players of the world will play as well as one business man, this time the CEO of the Cirque du Soleil:

• Doyle Brunson

• Sammy Farha
• David Benyamine
• Barry Greenstein
• Antonio Esfandiari
• Jamie Gold
• Daniel Negreanu
• Patrik Antonius
• Mike Matusow
• Jennifer Harman
• Phil Hellmuth
• Guy Laliberte

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