Apparently the Game Show Network has since taken a different stance and every episode of High Stakes Poker is now free to watch on YouTube. The decision will surely delight many poker fans as the. Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

There have been some great poker shows on television. Poker After Dark was a classic, a great enough format it has since been revived on PokerGO. The NBC Heads-Up shows were always good for some interesting confrontations, partypoker's The Big Game has delivered endless classics, and a plethora of live streams have left poker fans with an almost endless library of poker content to watch.

1. High Stakes Poker often features professional poker players that can be seen on other Poker TV shows, so there is a large amount of overlap in the players in, for instance, Poker After Dark and High Stakes Poker. Some of the players who have played on both shows include Doyle Brunson, Phil Ivey, Chris Ferguson, David Benyamine, Daniel Negreanu.
2. Online High Stakes Poker: A Quick History. During the online poker boom years, the focus of high stakes play was Full Tilt. People used to sign in specially to watch the big games – with blinds of $1000+ and stacks of $100,000k.
3. High Stakes Poker is a Poker Cash Game that was aired in United States from January 16, 2006 till May 21, 2011. The poker variant played in the show is No Limit Texas Hold 'em. High Stakes Poker was considered one of the finest Poker TV shows that was ever aired.

But there's no greater poker show than High Stakes Poker, many poker fans believe. The cash game television show premiered on January 16th, 2006 and ran for seven seasons, broadcasting for the last time May 21, 2011.

The show, which ran on GSN in the United States and found its way to poker fans all over the world, had AJ Benza and Gabe Kaplan in the commentary booth for the first five seasons before Kaplan did a solo job commentating in season six. In the final season, Kaplan was replaced by Norm Macdonald. Kara Scott conducted interviews with the players from the floor in the last two seasons.

While not new to the show, PokerStars signed on as the official sponsor in season seven, which resulted in a boycott from the Full Tilt Poker-sponsored players. The final season was not as popular as previous seasons but still made for some interesting poker tv.

While High Stakes Episodes appeared on YouTube before on numerous occasions, they usually received GSN takedown requests within days of publishing. Just last March, Doug Polk was forced to take down his analysis videos of High Stakes Poker. Some months before the takedown request, in January of this year, GSN had uploaded all the episodes to its official YouTube channel, but they were removed not much later. Now, last August, they reappeared online, now uploaded to a YouTube Channel simply called High Stakes Poker. They have since racked up hundreds of thousands of views and are all uploaded in great quality. The most popular episode is Season 6 - Episode 1 (featuring Hellmuth versus Esfandiari in flush-over-flush and Hellmuth versus Ivey in flush-over-flush) with 217,000 views. Season 4 - Episode 3 is the least popular with just 7,400 views.

Over in the PokerNews Strategy Section, we published a review of High Stakes Poker Season 1 - Episode 1 highlighting some of the strategic concepts of the first installment.

High Stakes Poker Season 1

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Casino:	Golden Nugget
Episodes:	13
Different players:	18

High Stakes Poker Season 1 Players

Amir Nasseri	Daniel Negreanu	Jennifer Harman	Sammy Farha
Antonio Esfandiari	Doyle Brunson	Jerry Buss	Shawn Sheikhan
Barry Greenstein	Eli Elezra	Johnny Chan	Ted Forrest
Bob Stupak	Fred Chamanara	Mimi Tran	Todd Brunson
Daniel Alaei	Freddy Deeb	Phil Hellmuth

High Stakes Poker Season 2

High Stakes Poker Season 2 Players

Amnon Filippi	Daniel Negreanu	Gus Hansen	Phil Laak
Antonio Esfandiari	David Grey	Jennifer Harman	Sammy Farha
Barry Greenstein	Doyle Brunson	John Juanda	Shawn Sheikhan
Brad Booth	Eli Elezra	Michael Mizrachi	Ted Forrest
Cory Zeidman	Erick Lindgren	Mike Matusow	Todd Brunson
Daniel Alaei	Fred Chamanara	Minh Ly

High Stakes Poker Season 3

High Stakes Poker Season 3 Players

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Antonio Esfandiari	Dan Shak	Erick Lindgren	Paul Wasicka
Barry Greenstein	Daniel Alaei	Gabe Kaplan	Phil Ivey
Bill Chen	Daniel Negreanu	Ilya Trincher	Phil Laak
Brad Booth	David Benyamine	Jamie Gold	Sammy Farha
Brian Townsend	David Williams	Jennifer Harman	Shawn Sheikhan
Chris Ferguson	Doyle Brunson	John D'Agostino	Todd Brunson
Dan Harmetz	Eli Elezra	Patrik Antonius	Victor Ramdin

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High Stakes Poker Season 4

High Stakes Poker Season 4 Players

Antonio Esfandiari	David Benyamine	Jennifer Harman	Phil Laak
Antonio Salorio	Doyle Brunson	Mike Baxter	Sammy Farha
Barry Greenstein	Eli Elezra	Mike Matusow	Todd Brunson
Bob Safai	Guy Laliberté	Patrik Antonius
Brandon Adams	Haralabos Voulgaris	Phil Galfond
Daniel Negreanu	Jamie Gold	Phil Hellmuth

High Stakes Poker Season 5

High Stakes Poker Season 5 Players

Casino:	Golden Nugget
Episodes:	13
Different players:	19

Alan Meltzer	David Benyamine	Ilari Sahamies	Peter Eastgate
Antonio Esfandiari	David Peat	Joe Hachem	Phil Laak
Barry Greenstein	Doyle Brunson	Mike Baxter	Sam Simon
Daniel Negreanu	Eli Elezra	Nick Cassavetes	Tom Dwan
Dario Minieri	Howard Lederer	Patrik Antonius

High Stakes Poker Season 6

High Stakes Poker Season 6 Players

Casino:	Golden Nugget
Episodes:	13
Different players:	21

Andreas Høivold	Dario Minieri	Jason Mercier	Phil Ivey
Andrew Robl	David Benyamine	Lex Veldhuis	Phil Laak
Antonio Esfandiari	Dennis Phillips	Mike Matusow	Tom Dwan
Barry Greenstein	Doyle Brunson	Patrik Antonius
Bertrand Grospellier	Eli Elezra	Phil Galfond
Daniel Negreanu	Gus Hansen	Phil Hellmuth

High Stakes Poker Season 7

High Stakes Poker Season 7 Players

Andrew Robl	Daniel Negreanu	Johnny Chan	Phil Ruffin
Antonio Esfandiari	David Peat	Jonathan Duhamel	Robert Croak
Barry Greenstein	Doyle Brunson	Mike Baxter	Vanessa Selbst
Bill Klein	Haralabos Voulgaris	Phil Galfond
Bill Perkins	Jason Mercier	Phil Laak

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