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According to official sources GSN is planning to start recording High Stakes Poker Season 6 which will be available in early 2010. The new episodes will be having new co-host as A.J Benza left the show.

Since the Pilot of the show was first released back in 2006 the High Stakes Poker Show has proved to be the most popular entertaining show on TV. The mixture of high stakes, piles of cash on the tables and famous gamblers couldn’t but attract audience. Main hosts of the show were Benza and Kaplan who have gathered million fan crowds supporting them in their poker battles. People say, we mean, there are rumors, that on his leaving he suggested that the company should replace him with Vanesa Rousso.

The personal blog of AJ contains post telling how disappointed and angry he is with the company (details can be found in his blog). However he addresses his fans and says that there is still little hope as in case the female gambler fails to play her best, the company might ask him to come back offering him better conditions. But that might be only in High Stakes Poker 7.

Brandon Hall proved to be the best among other 474 gamblers who came to Aruba Poker Championship to try their luck.

With Chase Steely gaining the third place, Hall And Mizrachi agreed to the mutual beneficial deal leaving Mizrachi the Chip leader occupying second place and that they both would add $30.000 from their revenues to the actual winner whoever it would be.

The final hand brought disappointment to Robert as he failed to beat Brandon and had to please himself with the second place of the Poker Championship while Eric Baldwin was left with the forth result of the tournament though he was quite good competing Hall. He won $126.000 and seemed to be fine with the result of his success. Chase contented himself with the $220.000 he won ranking third in the battle for millions.

The overall table of Top 5 players

1. Brandon Hall
2. Robert Mizrachi
3. Chase Steely
4. Eric Baldwin
5. Jose Roberto Santos

Congratulations to Brandon and good luck in forthcoming championships.

Since the London events have ended and the players have nowhere to compete, they rushed into online poker. Gus Hanses tried to crush on Cole South but the last one succeeded to get back most part of what he lost previously.

There was a fine battle at Full Tilt room between Erik “DIN_FRU” Sagstrom and Phil Ivey. Erik was having fun beating everyone and finished the day with a $336k in his pocket, though he could have won much more if it were not for the Phil Ivey who suddenly rushed in to the game as if he knew some kind of secret and was not afraid of getting into trouble with Erik. The day brought him $1.1 million. Here is a short list of the players who were not that lucky to sit at the same table with Ivey: Tom “durrrr” Dwan, Cole South, Ilari “Ziigmund” Sahamies, Phil “OMGClayAiken” Galfond and Patrick Antonius.

Barcelona is known for its amazing arcitecture and the man behind it, Antoni Gaudi. Melissa takes us on a small tour of some of key Gaudi sites to see while in Barcelona.

EPT Barcelona kicks off with Day 1a and Melissa gives us the rundown of what’s happening here at the Gran Casino.

Congratulations to Frenchman Thomas Bichon, the newest WPT Champion, after taking down the 181-strong field on the brand new stop to the Season 8 calendar – the WPT Merit Cyprus Classic.

High Stakes Poker Season 5. Episode 3. Table: Eli Elezra, David Benyamine, Peter Eastgate, Daniel Nagreanu, Ilari “Zigmund” Sahamies, Tom “Durr” Dwan, Barry Greenstein and Doyle Brunson.

Do you know that Dublin (Ireland) has recently been crowned the European Poker Capital for the second time already?

Ireland is a country with a rapidly growing both land and online gambling poker industries. The Irish government is not operating a gambling monopoly and there are lots of poker friendly venues and poker events in the country including the Irish Poker Open that has really grown in prestige over the past several years.

The Irish love the game of poker and seem to have won the award for their capital this year.

The winner of the six max pot-limit Omaha tournament of the FTOPS, “Smouse156” took home over $76,000.

833 competitors took part in FTOPS’ six event for a chance to win a portion of the $416,500 prize pool.

Thus, the 102nd spot was rewarded with $791 alongside 17 other competitors. The next-placed 18 online players became $874 richer. This was followed by $999 for the next best 12 while $1,166 was give away to the dozen players finishing above those. So, it is easy to imagine how prizes for the better finishing players grew: $8,954 for the seventh place, $14,369 for the sixth, $22,491 for the fifth spot, $31,654 for the fourth, $41,650 for the third spot and $71,000 for the second.

The 13th edition of FTOPS is set to offer 25 events with the total prize pool of $19 million.

This year’s poker festival, Poker in The Park, organized by Bluff Europe, takes place on August 13 from 5 o’clock in the afternoon till 9:30 in the evening and on August 14 from noon until 9:30 in the evening in London, Leicester Square.

It’s been announced that there will be 9 Heads-Up Challenge automated poker tables at the festival for players to compete against each other in free Texas Hold’em tournaments. Besides, Bluff Europe is hosting the Heads-Up Poker marquee in which the most successful player will get the title Heads-Up Poker Champion and his/her photo will be published in the magazine.

Professional players such as Neil Channing, Nick Persaud, Ian Frazer, Paul Jackson and Kara Scott will give autographs and answer questions of the 15,000 poker enthusiasts that are expected to take part in the festival.

There is still a chance to win a ticket to the annual Irish Classic Poker Festival main event that is to take place on August 16.

Every Wednesday from 9 o’clock in the evening London time, Betfair has been offering one seat to the main event for as little as $2.20. Besides, the qualifiers will be entered into the Free Million Dollar Game freeroll, which will award one competitor with a seat to the Betfair-sponsored WSOP Europe.

The main event of the Irish Classic Poker Festival will be a $140,000 guaranteed no-limit hold’em tournament with a $1,551 buy-in.