Once bitten, twice shy? Not for PokerGO, which has announced two consecutive High Stakes Poker livestreams, set for Saturday and Sunday, November 8-9.
The iconic poker show, which wrapped its 14th season earlier this year, previously went live in April 2023 with a stream that got the poker world buzzing, though not necessarily for the poker. You can read more on that below.
The games will be $200/$400 no-limit hold’em with $100,000 minimum buy-ins. Nick Schulman, Brent Hanks, and Scott Seiver will be on commentary when the action goes live at 4pm PT on PokerGO.
Who’s playing on High Stakes Poker Live?
The three headliners are Doug Polk, Alan Keating, and Andrew Robl. Robl has been a mainstay in the PokerGO studios over the past couple of years, playing on High Stakes Poker, No Gamble No Future, and, most recently, Cash of the Titans, where he won almost $900K.
Keeping them all in check is the queen of poker, Jennifer Tilly, who has cemented herself as one of the game’s favorites over many sessions on the show.
Santhosh Suvarna, Monkey Tilt CEO Sam Kiki and Justin Gavri round out the current lineup, but you can expect other names to show up during the stream.
As Polk pointed out on X, this is the first time he’ll have played on a stream with Keating – and it’s an explosive match-up that should mean fireworks.
What happened last time High Stakes Poker went live?
High Stakes Poker has been live before — back on April 28, 2023, when this was the starting lineup.
Matt Berkey ended up on the right of Nik Airball and that dynamic became the focus of the first High Stakes Poker livestream.Matt Berkey and Nik Airball had beef going into the show and that became the focal point of the action. Airball’s needling got so intense that TikTok removed a clipped video shared by PokerOrg for violating its bullying policy.
This is what PokerOrg’s Brad Willis made of it at the time.
“Jean-Robert Bellande brought an unexpected calming nuance to the game. Rob Yong somehow served to diffuse the focus on the myriad beefs Matt Berkey had with the crew assembled to hate on him. Jen Tilly provided something almost magical, a combination of grace and mischief that was as royal as her tiara (emblazoned with the words ‘Instigator of Chaos’).
"Berkey was measured and mature. Doug Polk dialed back his recent vitriol and played his game. Eric Persson, though a bit loud in the early going and accused of having some crazy eyes for a bit, never seemed to get out of line in any way that I’d consider objectionable.
"Airball? He accomplished something no one else in the poker world has been able to do this year. He made every other person at that table seem, by comparison, to be a reasonable and mature human being.”
At the time of writing, Airball isn’t in the 2025 lineup, and that likely means a quieter game this time around.
