CableWorld published GSN’s ratings: a .3 with a 198,000 household count. This is the lowest since the changeover from Game Show Network to GSN. However, this isn’t stopping them from debuting a new poker show that will hopefully lift the spirits of the TV poker industry. The new 13 episode show, “High Stakes Poker” (No, it’s not Poker Royale), will be a game where each player has to pay their way to play.

Each person pays $100,000 just to enter, and each player can continue digging money out of their own wallets to continue playing. CEO Rich Cronin stated “The difference between tournament poker-even the World Series of Poker, with a $10,000 buy-in-and a cash game where a player can lose several hundred thousand dollars of their own money will be dynamic.” Ian Valentine also said “They’re playing with their own money and lots of it. This is real poker, and we will also capture the rarified milieu in which the high rollers live and play.”

Now we are doing a new podcast and REALLY would love your input to this, so please email me at itiparanoid13@gmail.com or reply to this post. GSN’s new .3 is one of the lowest they’ve had in a long long long time. What do you think is the reason for this? What do you all think could they do to improve this? I’ll voice my opinion during the podcast.

Source: GSNN and TVWeek