Some very shrewd producers from the West Coast decided to televise a high stakes poker game live on TV. The success has been huge as even proven by the hundreds of thousands of hits generated by the showing of the high stakes games in intervals on YouTube.com. The games are set in some of the most prestigious Las Vegas hotels on the strip and have, for the last three seasons, switched hotels each time. Why this happened is anyone’s guess, but its assumed that the producers know a thing or two about marketing value and have probably received great deals from other casinos to move it to their location with the show charging X amount for the publicity.

Some of the most notorious hands were played with the two power-houses Negreanu and Gustav (Gus) Hansen. The two duked it out for a half a million dollar pot as Gus showed his quad fives against the poker kid’s full house. The most memorable reaction to that hand was the facial reaction Negreanu supplied when he heard the all familiar “All in” by Gus Hansen. Negreanu’s face contorted with that “Oh My God” look once Gus showed his quads. Even Gus Hansen said “Its sick, I know” when he displayed his cards. The room was silent as one of the most memorable hands ever played materialized. It is hands like these that have made the High Takes Poker program so popular and with so many casts of characters available to join the action and spice up the ratings, the show shows no signs of slowing down.