It’s almost my bed time, but I couldn’t go to sleep without posting a teaser clip from the new High Stakes Poker Season 5, which begins on March 1st at 9 PM on the GSN Network.
This show is amazing for many reasons, but everyone I have talked to has agreed that this is the best poker show on TV, and herein this clip is just one reason why.
The hero in this clip is Patrik Antonious who is one of the most notorious high stakes players in the game, and the villain in the clip is none other than the UnabomberPhil Laak.  Enjoy the scene, and one other side note about Antonious.
He is currently involved in an online high stakes challenge proposed to him by Tom “Durrrrrrrr” Dwan in which Dwan challenged any poker player in the world to 50,000(yes, 50,000) hands of either Pot Limit Omaha or No-Limit Holdem online multi-tabling 4 tables at a time at $200/$400 stakes.  The catch is that if the challenger after 50,000 hands is up in money after all is said and done, Dwan will pay $1.5 million(yes, $1.5 Million) to the challenger; however, if Dwan wins, the challenger must pony up an additional $500K.  So far, Antonious, Phil Ivey, and David Benyamine have agreed to the challenge, but Antonious was the first to get it started.
After about 4,000 hands played to date, Dwan is currently up $150K. If you are interested, you can follow along here