There's a twist coming to the 2026 World Series of Poker (WSOP) in Las Vegas.
For three weekends in June, the Horseshoe Casino will play host to WSOP High Stakes Live – a joint venture between NSUS Group, the parent company behind GGPoker and the WSOP brand, and High Stakes Poker Productions (HSPP), which owns and operates Hustler Casino Live. In March of 2025, NSUS Group purchased an undisclosed stake in HSPP, paving the way for this new project.
WSOP High Stakes Live will be the first collaboration between the two entities. The schedule calls for six games across the three weekends – June 5-6, June 12-13, and June 19-20. During the week, Hustler Casino Live will continue its regularly scheduled programming from Monday to Thursday.
And that's not all. Earlier this week, Hustler Casino Live announced plans to replace its annual Million Dollar Game with Mega Cash Mania. At the time, it was unclear whether the Million Dollar Game was simply postponed or cancelled altogether.
Now we have an answer.
On June 12, the Million Dollar Game IV will play out on WSOP High Stakes Live.
PokerOrg spoke with HSPP co-owner and producer of Hustler Casino Live Ryan Feldman to learn more.
Feldman: "We've been thinking about how to expand"
When news of NSUS Group's partial acquisition of HSPP hit the wires last year, Feldman made clear the potential for growth and the possibility of broadening the show's horizons as a result of the new partnership.
"For a while now, we've been thinking about how to expand and do things beyond Hustler Casino Live," Feldman told us. "And what we landed on was the idea of streaming cash games at different events.
"So, the first step in doing that is WSOP this summer. In June, we're going to have a livestream table at The Horseshoe next to the other feature tables. It's not Hustler Casino Live, we're going to call it WSOP High Stakes Live."
Feldman isn't exactly clear on how high the buy-ins for the majority of the games will run – "I anticipate a lot of them will be like $50K or $100K buy-in games," – but he's certain about one of them.
"One of the games, on June 12, will be a Million Dollar Game," Feldman shared. "So, instead of running the Million Dollar Game in May, we're going to do it in Las Vegas at the WSOP."
Following the action
In years past, the Hustler Casino Live livestream has taken a hiatus during the summer series – after all, it's tough to put together exciting lineups in Los Angeles when the majority of the poker world is in Las Vegas to battle for bracelets. This summer, there's no need for that. With all of the game's biggest names headed to Sin City, it's only logical that HSPP follows them there.
The lineups for the both the Million Dollar Game and the other five games aren't yet set in stone, but Feldman has a well-established track record of putting together action-packed shows.
"We don't have a full lineup yet, but I've talked to a bunch of people and I'm pretty confident," Feldman said. "Right now, it looks like we'll have [Alan] Keating, we'll have Santhosh [Suvarna], we'll have Turbo [Phong 'Turbo' Nguyen], and a few others who would have played in LA."
If all goes well this summer, don't be surprised to see HSPP cash games popping up all over the globe at various events.
"It's like our test run. This is the first time that we can transition our overall product from just being this show Hustler Casino Live to a network concept," Feldman explained.
