I heard it's going to be Kara Scott who's going to be down by the tables. She'll work three days 'cause the game's a three day game. And then Gabe will do all the commenting alone, which is kind of lonely: there's nobody to play off of, there's nobody to joke with. I know Gabe, he's a comedian, he's got great timing, and I know he's going to miss that (indistinct) but.. GSN just... they got into this price-slashing mode. And a lot of people took a lot less money. I offered to take less money to keep the job but they said they didn't care about that.I think adding a hostess is a step in the wrong direction. 90% of the interviews on Poker After Dark aren't as good as watching the game, and that show airs most of the hands. High Stakes Poker only shows a selection of interesting hands, so the poker that's sacrificed for interviews is likely to be a greater loss.
Really what they're doing now is that they have Kara Scott doing tableside interviews and Gabe announcing alone you're basically just doing Poker After Dark.
Kara Scott is attractive and well-liked, however, and they could do much worse. She's most well known to most of us for being the European Poker Tour hostess. She's also the girlfriend of Brian Townsend, one of the best poker players in the world, and has had some good tournament cashes lately.
Some more tidbits from the AJ Benza interview:
Mori took a pay cut like you guys wouldn't believe.Don't miss any poker on TV: sign up for our weekly newsletter or subscribe to our feed.
I don't think right now that High Stakes Poker is having an easy time putting poker players together to play season 6.
Poker After Dark... it should be on at two o'clock in the morning because it really is like Valium, it's like a Xanax, it's the most boring, slow-paced show. And World Poker Tour the banter between those two guys is so phony and false and fake... it should be Poker After Death.
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2+2 seems to be in complete agreement with me that they shouldn't be interrupting the poker with interviews.
Additional evidence on HSP's hostess: ESPN's Andrew Feldman says "I know something" that convinced him it's her.
PokerNews.com says this is confirmed, though they don't name their source.
On the change from Benza to Scott, GSN Vice President of Programming and Development David Schiff told Poker News Daily, “We’re into the sixth season and we felt like it was time to freshen it up. Our feeling was that we wanted viewers to be in the room with the players. Gabe and A.J. did a good job, but they were disconnected from the action.”
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