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So they've rotated in the second group of players on High Stakes Poker Season 5, and they may not be quite as exciting as the first.

At times it hasn't even seemed like much of a poker show, as 75% of the table seems more intent on making prop bets than actually playing poker.

That said, Episode 8, which aired last night, wasn't completely devoid of poker content, as Daniel Negreanu and Patrik Antonius locked horns in a $72,000 pot that wound up being the most interesting hand of the episode.

High Stakes Poker Season 5, Episode 6 aired last night and, as expected, upped the bar for television poker again - this time by shattering the record for the biggest pot ever on TV.

It should come as no surprise that Tom "durrrr" Dwan was involved, locking horns with PokerStars Team Pro Barry Greenstein in what would amount to almost a $1 million coin flip.

Season 5 Episode 5 of High Stakes Poker aired last night, and the hand of the night featured a $200,000 bluff from Barry Greenstein that succeeded in getting his opponent to lay down top pair.

If you're a poker player you know where you'll be at nine o'clock Sunday night: plunked down in front of your TV watching eight of poker's best flinging money around like it's going out of style.

Without fail, each episode brings us at least one hand worth discussing in more detail, and Episode 5 was no different.

Episode 4 of High Stakes Poker Season 5 brings us what we've come to expect from the best poker show on television: bluffs, suck-outs and sick value bets for more than your average American earns in an entire year.

Episode 3 of High Stakes Poker Season 5 aired last night, and like the previous two episodes, it made for some solid TV. The storyline emerging from this episode was the implosion of Daniel Negreanu.

It's no secret that HSP has never been too kind to Kid Poker. We all remember the set-over-set, turned-quads-over-full-house hand that cost Daniel his stack against Gus Hansen a few years back.

The recurring theme seemed to be Daniel putting his opponent on a better hand and yet calling off his chips anyway.

The second episode of Season 5 of High Stakes Poker aired on Sunday, and as you might have guessed, durrrr played another hand that had everyone talking.

This one saw a family pot. The online phenom turned his made top pair into a super sick deep-stacked bluff, successfully getting two players to fold better hands, to the tune of a $133,500 pot.

Last Sunday, High Stakes Poker stormed back onto television screens nationwide with one of the most talked-about hands in its history.

The highlight of the first episode of the fifth season was clearly the $175,200 pot played between WSOP Main Event Champion Peter Eastgate and online dynamo Tom "durrrr" Dwan.

The hand, probably one of the most thought-provoking ones ever played on the show, had people arguing whether Eastgate missed out on value by playing the hand so passively.

The action has been hot and heavy at the nosebleed stakes on Full Tilt Poker as of late. In this version of the snapshot we check out a hand in which Phil Ivey looks very human, donating a $401,919 pot to Finnish pro Sami "LarsLuzak" Kelopuro.

Peter "Isser" Eastgate flexes some of his Main Event run-good muscle in this $48,366 pot won on PokerStars.

In the biggest pot of the year thus far Phil Ivey teaches Finnish pro Sami "LarzLuzak" Kelopuro a $406,814 lesson about why he shouldn't put in 30BB pre-flop, out of position, with a potentially dominated hand.

The action at the high-stakes tables has been sporadic thus far in the new year. Still, we didn't have to look too far to find an interesting hand from the $200/$400 tables in which $84,576 changes hands thanks to an ace kicker.

Tom "durrrr" Dwan starts the new year off with a bang and shows us why he was one of the top money earners of 2008, with this $67,597 pot at luckexpress10's expense.

Another hand brought to you by the good folks at Full Tilt Poker and their ever-popular $500/$1,000 game. Today's chapter involves another two heavyweights of the e-felt, Phil Galfond and Ariel Schneller. When the dust settles one will be $200,000 richer.

This edition of the snapshot features two poker dynamos for some reason duking it out heads-up at the highest stakes available online. Makes sense, right?

Very little time was wasted today as they went from 18 to six in less than three levels and the final table was set on Day 5 of the Doyle Brunson Five Diamond World Poker Classic.

A gang of thieves and murderers filled the Bellagio's Fontana Room Tuesday for the third day of the Doyle Brunson Five Diamond World Poker Classic, with 84 people falling victim to a poker crime spree perpetrated by the 55 who now remain in contention for the crown.

This edition of the snapshot features draws aplenty and a rare three-way all-in culminating in a $490k pot won by Urindanger.

Phil Ivey battles it out with everyone's favorite poker hunk, Patrik Antonius, in another nosebleed session from the RailHeaven table.

Another day, another snapshot, another nosebleed hand involving everybody's favorite online superstar Tom "durrrr" Dwan.

Today's snapshot comes to us from another six-max session on every railbird's favorite table, RailHeaven.

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