Golden Nugget to film poker tourneys

October 28

The Golden Nugget Hotel and Casino is ready to bring  two made for TV poker tourneys to the TV boasting some of the biggest names in poker. Online poker players are very excited.

The two TV shows events,  High Stakes Poker, produced for GSN, and Poker Superstars III, produced for Fox Sports Net (FSN), mark the return of  gaming on TV to the legendary downtown Vegas resort. Earlier in 2005, the Golden Nugget was home to the World Series Of Blackjack, which aired on GSN, Speed Channel's Mobil High Endurance Charity Poker Challenge and NBC's National Heads-Up Poker Championship, which garnered solid ratings.

GSN, The Network for Games, is launching its new series, High Stakes Poker in January 2006. The series will unite some of the top professional poker players with elite poker-playing business executives in an exciting match of skill and money. Also known as a "cash game," each player will ante up $100,000 of his/her own money. The stakes are high, as a player can lose several thousands of his/her own money, making the series one of the most exciting poker shows ever to air.

Among the poker aces scheduled to appear are Doyle Brunson, Johnny Chan, Jennifer Harmon, Barry Greenstein and Phil Hellmuth, among other high-profile players.

The TV series will be filmed in complete at the Golden Nugget, Nov. 2-4. Unfortunately, the tapings will be closed to the public. The Golden Nugget also served as the location for GSN's 2005 series, World Series Of Blackjack, a head-to-head match up of professional and amateur blackjack players from all over.

High Stakes Poker will premiere on GSN Monday, January 16, 2006, at 9 a night.

FSN brings the third season of its popular series Poker Superstars to the Golden Nugget, November 9-16. The 36-episode series, produced by Henry Orenstein, will feature 24 of the world's greatest poker players, including poker luminaries such as Johnny Chan, Chris Ferguson, Todd Brunson, Phil Ivey, Phil Hellmuth and Chris Moneymaker.

Poker Superstars III is the latest in poker programming on FSN -- the only US network to air live poker tournaments -- and joins the network's successful line-up of poker series, such as Learn From The Pros, Monte Carlo Millions, Aussie Millions and the highly rated Poker Superstars International.

The show tapings, scheduled for November 9-16 at the Golden Nugget, will be closed to the public. Poker Superstars will air on Fox Sports Net beginning March 12, 2006.