GSN to Air Doubles Poker Championship This Weekend

What’s that you say? Want a new poker show? You got it!

Cable network GSN is no stranger to poker programming, having once been the home of the World Poker Tour and still serving as the only place to see High Stakes Poker and coverage of the Aussie Millions on television. This weekend the network is adding another poker show to its lineup with the Doubles Poker Championship.

The new show features a unique format. Each episode, two teams of two players each that alternate playing streets of no-limit hold’em, with one player making the decisions pre-flop and on the turn and the other player taking control on the flop and the river. It sounds a little gimmicky, but the personality pairings should be enough to make it interesting television.

A top-tier lineup of players, including eight-time WSOP bracelet winner Phil Ivey, high-stakes online cash game pro Tom “durrrr” Dwan, WSOP Tournament of Champions winner Huck Seed, new Women in Poker Hall of Fame member Jennifer Harman, 11-time WSOP bracelet winner Phil Hellmuth, and Florida State Poker Championship winner Mike “Ted Forrest Has Been Paid” Matusow, took part in the tournament. They and 26 other top poker players put up $50,000 apiece to play four “regular season” match-ups with different partners. The top half of the field then advanced to the semifinals, with two teams moving on to the final table to fight it out for the $1 million top prize.

Filmed at the Golden Nugget in Las Vegas, the program was put together by Poker PROductions, Mori Eskandani’s prolific production outfit responsible for poker shows like High Stakes Poker, Poker After Dark, NBC’s National Heads-Up Poker Championship, Poker SuperStars and ESPN’s coverage of WSOP Europe.

The Doubles Poker Championship will air on GSN at 9 p.m. ET this Saturday, August 14.