The WORST episodes of High Stakes Poker
Every episode of High Stakes Poker ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of High Stakes Poker!
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#1 - Episode 9
Season 12 - Episode 9 - Aired 4/22/2024
It's a new night and a brand-new episode of High Stakes Poker, but the boys are all back to play $1,000/$2,000 No-Limit Hold'em. Santhosh Suvarna, Charles Yu, Stanley Tang, Nik Airball, Brandon Adams, and Andrew Robl all sit down with $500,000. Robl starts off hot with a few big hands before he cuts down pocket aces in a $500k pot. Suvarna wins possibly the biggest pot of the season, while Robl rivers Adams and then freerolls Airball when they both have a straight. The episode closes with a cooler for Stanley Tang against Charles Yu in a pot that eclipses $630k.
#2 - Episode 7
Season 15 - Episode 7 - Aired 12/23/2025
Stanley Tang reaches for a rebuy to open this episode of High Stakes Poker, before Justin Gavri spikes the river against Darin Feinstein. Feinstein rebounds by doubling three times, while Tang picks up chips against Sameh Elamawy before giving them to Sean Dempsey. The episode ends with one of the biggest pots in High Stakes Poker history between Elamawy and his pocket aces, and Antonio Esfandiari and his pocket eights. Who will win this $824,500 pot?
#3 - Episode 6
Season 15 - Episode 6 - Aired 12/23/2025
An all-new line-up takes a seat for this episode of High Stakes Poker as Antonio Esfandiari makes his long-awaited return since Season 10. The Magician is joined by Andrew Robl, DoorDash Co-Founder Stanley Tang, Scratch CEO Sameh Elamawy, Justin Gavri, Sean Dempsey, and Darin Feinstein for this $500/$1,000 No-Limit Hold'em cash game.
#4 - Episode 5
Season 15 - Episode 5 - Aired 12/23/2025
Another new player takes a seat as Justin Gavri makes his season debut on High Stakes Poker. Stanley Tang wins a big one off Kirk Brown after a cooler flop, while Sameh Elamawy outdraws Andrew Robl on the turn. Kevin Hart doubles through Robl, but then is forced to rebuy after he bricks his flush draw against Robl. Hart then goes on a late rush picking up pocket aces, turning a straight against Gavri, and then winning a $900,000 pot against Robl.
#5 - Episode 4
Season 15 - Episode 4 - Aired 12/23/2025
Andrew Sasson enters the mix on this episode of High Stakes Poker, and he's immediately thrown into it when he's at-risk with a combo draw against Darin Feinstein. Kevin Hart is bluffed twice, but begins to rebound, picking up some pots to close out the episode until he is dealt pocket kings and disaster strikes against Kirk Brown.
#6 - Episode 3
Season 15 - Episode 3 - Aired 12/23/2025
Full houses here, there, and everywhere on this episode of High Stakes Poker. Andrew Robl, Kirk Brown, and Kevin Hart all scoop in big pots with full houses, while Hart gets through a bluff on Sam Kiki with four-high. Brown tries to bluff in a bigger spot, but gets picked off and then is forced to rebuy after being on the losing side of a flush-over-flush cooler against Hart. Brown runs it back against Hart and gets some revenge as Feinstein finishes as the big winner with more than $1.3 million in his stack.
#7 - Episode 12
Season 12 - Episode 12 - Aired 5/13/2024
The Season 12 finale of High Stakes Poker opens with Santhosh Suvarna and Charles Yu nursing chip stacks over $1,000,000. Nik Airball and Stanley Tang play a huge pot that gets chopped before Airball flops a set of sevens and then sixes. Unfortunately for Airball, his set of sixes goes into the muck once Charles Yu turns up the heat. The season finale concludes with big pocket pairs, an outdraw, and then one last suckout on the river.
#8 - Episode 11
Season 12 - Episode 11 - Aired 5/6/2024
It's a better start to this episode of High Stakes Poker for Brandon Adams, as he makes back-to-back straights and then a full house. Santhosh Suvarna cracks Stanley Tang's pocket kings. Adams's run of hot cards ends in a cooler when his trips are second-best to Tang's straight flush before Nik Airball and Charles Yu pick up some pots to close out the penultimate episode of the season.
#9 - Episode 10
Season 12 - Episode 10 - Aired 4/29/2024
It's a night of bluffs on this episode of High Stakes Poker as Nik Airball, Charles Yu, and Stanley Tang get one past their opponents. Things don't fall Andrew Robl's way, as he is outdrawn and then coolered by Tang before he has Santhosh Suvarna hit a runner-runner flush. Brandon Adams' night isn't much better either, and he runs it twice on his two all-in pots with the best hand and is unable to scoop.
#10 - Episode 8
Season 16 - Episode 8 - Aired 6/16/2026
Monkey Tilt Co-Founder Sam Kiki opens this new episode of High Stakes Poker with a flush, while Andrew Robl makes trips. Santhosh Suvarna and Jennifer Tilly tangle with Tilly picking up chips in the next hand with a set. Justin Gavri loses his stack, but then wins a big one against Ryan Blank. Gavri finds pocket aces before Kiki wins the final two pots of the episode.
#11 - Episode 17
Season 10 - Episode 17 - Aired 5/30/2023
It's the final episode of Season 10 on High Stakes Poker, and it kicks off with Bill Klein explaining why he always wears a hat when playing poker. Lamb's hot run continues when he wins a small pot with just quads, but then makes a bad fold to Daniel Negreanu. Negreanu then tangles with Stanley Choi and bets big on the river with the best hand. Pots go the way of Klein and Charles Yu, while Eric Hicks plays two big ones against Lamb and Choi. The final hand of the season has Negreanu at the mercy of the deck against Lamb as the tenth season of High Stakes Poker concludes.
#12 - Episode 16
Season 10 - Episode 16 - Aired 5/23/2023
Poker is hard, but not for Daniel Negreanu or Ben Lamb on this episode of High Stakes Poker. Both players are hit by the deck early as Lamb rivers trips not once but twice. Negreanu battles back and forth with Eric Persson and has the better of him each time. Bill Klein is outdrawn by Negreanu in two pots, but he ends the episode with a successful bluff against Eric Hicks.
#13 - Episode 15
Season 10 - Episode 15 - Aired 5/16/2023
The final line-up from Season 10 of High Stakes Poker is here with Ben Lamb and Charles Yu making their debuts. They'll be joined by Eric Persson, Bill Klein, Stanley Choi, Eric Hicks, and Daniel Negreanu to play $200/$400 No-Limit Hold'em.
#14 - Episode 12
Season 10 - Episode 12 - Aired 4/25/2023
It's the final episode with this lineup of players, and it begins with Stanley Choi picking up several pots with big hands and well-timed bluffs. Jean-Robert Bellande gets sneaky with ace-king when he flops top pair and plays a massive pot against Eric Persson. Persson makes a big move on the river and puts Bellande into a tough spot, and even after the hand concludes, both players continue to jar at each other throughout the remainder of the episode.
#15 - Episode 11
Season 10 - Episode 11 - Aired 4/18/2023
Nothing beats looking down at a big pocket pair, and for Daniel Negreanu on this episode of High Stakes Poker, nothing is better than when they improve to a set. It's another huge episode for Jean-Robert Bellande as he plays an all-in pot with pocket kings against Jennifer Tilly before Stanley Tang goes all-in with a flush and straight draw. Eric Persson has an up-and-down night making some big bluffs before he loses a big pot to Andrew Robl, who finds a fortunate river card.
#16 - Episode 10
Season 10 - Episode 10 - Aired 4/11/2023
Jean-Robert Bellande looks down at pocket aces not once, not twice, but three times on this episode of High Stakes Poker. Eric Persson flops the nuts twice but also gives back to Bellande in two spots. After losing with pocket jacks, Stanley Tang goes on a little heater to close out the episode, while Andrew Robl believes that three-deuce is worth $45,000 preflop!
#17 - Episode 9
Season 10 - Episode 9 - Aired 3/21/2023
The tenth season of High Stakes Poker continues with an all-new lineup featuring Eric Persson, Stanley Tang, Jennifer Tilly, Stanley Choi, Andrew Robl, Jean-Robert Bellande, and Daniel Negreanu playing $200/400 No-Limit Hold'em.
#18 - Episode 13
Season 9 - Episode 13 - Aired 5/16/2022
A new set of players take a seat on this episode of High Stakes Poker as Daniel Negreanu, Stanley Tang, Phil Ivey, Jonathan Gibbs, Tom Dwan, Jason Koon, Patrik Antonius, and Doyle Brunson play $500/$1,000 No-Limit Hold'em. The episode kicks off with one of the hands of the season, while both Dwan and Antonius take their turn to drag big pots throughout the episode.
#19 - Episode 9
Season 15 - Episode 9 - Aired 12/23/2025
It's a brand-new line-up for this episode of High Stakes Poker as Professor makes his debut. He is joined by Andrew Robl, Scratch CEO Sameh Elamawy, Eric Hicks, Just Gavri, Steve Swedlow, and Jeremy Stein for this $200/$400 No-Limit Hold'em cash game.
#20 - Episode 8
Season 15 - Episode 8 - Aired 12/23/2025
This episode of High Stakes Poker is one that Darin Feinstein would like to forget. He runs into Andrew Robl's pocket jacks, then folds the best hand to Antonio Esfandiari, and then loses a flip to Robl. Feinstein plays a three-way pot totalling $1.2 million, and although he had the best hand on the flop, things turned south on the turn and on the multiple runouts before the last of his chips head to Esfandiari. Robl pressures Esfandiari in a huge pot worth more than $629,000 with just bottom pair. Will Esfandiari sniff out Robl's semi-bluff or make the big fold?
#21 - Episode 7
Season 16 - Episode 7 - Aired 6/16/2026
The stakes are $200/$400 on this new episode of High Stakes Poker as a brand-new lineup takes center stage. Fan favorite Andrew Robl is nestled behind $300,000 in chips, while Jennifer Tilly, Justin Gavri, Ryan Blank, and PokerGO Founder Cary Katz make their season debuts. Returning for the game are Monkey Tilt Co-Founder Sam Kiki and William Tjokro.
#22 - Episode 6
Season 16 - Episode 6 - Aired 6/16/2026
DraftKings Co-Founder Matt Kalish kicks off this new episode of High Stakes Poker with a stack of more than $1.4 million, and he immediately starts increasing it with pots against Sam Kiki, Sameh Elamawy, and Stanley Tang. However, the night truly belongs to Santhosh Suvarna as he is involved in two of the biggest pots in High Stakes Poker history. After first hitting a cooler on the flop against Alan Keating, he then flops big on Kalish in a pot of more than $2.4 million. On the final hand of the night, Santhosh and Kalish get involved in a pot that soars to more than $2.4 million. Will it be Kalish or Suvarna who goes home the big winner?
#23 - Episode 5
Season 16 - Episode 5 - Aired 6/16/2026
It's a brand-new lineup for this episode of High Stakes Poker as Alan Keating joins the game and sits behind a table-leading $500,000 in chips. He is joined by fan favorite Andrew Robl, DraftKings Co-Founder Matt Kalish, Monkey Tilt Founder Sam Kiki, Scratch CEO Sameh Elamawy, DoorDash Co-Founder Stanley Tang, two-time WSOP bracelet winner Santhosh Suvarna, and high-stakes poker player William Tjokro, as the stakes remain at a staggering $500/$1,000.
#24 - Episode 4
Season 16 - Episode 4 - Aired 5/25/2026
It's the final episode of High Stakes Poker with this line-up, and Darin Feinstein opens with a big shove yet again. Kevin Hart bluffs Sam Kiki and shows the goods, while Andrew Robl starts hitting the flop. Sameh Elamawy extracts a little value with his flopped flush, but the biggest pot of the night plays out between Hart and Kiki. It's a cooler on the turn with Hart turning a set while Kiki turns a straight. Kiki makes his move on the river as the pot eclipses $1,200,000. Can Hart get away, or will Kiki finish as the biggest winner of the night?
#25 - Episode 3
Season 16 - Episode 3 - Aired 5/25/2026
Darin Feinstein kicks off this episode of High Stakes Poker with an all-in semi-bluff that gets through against Santhosh Suvarna. Then wins a $1,000,000 pot with bottom set against Andrew Robl, while Kevin Hart starts to turn things around by taking down several pots with pocket jacks, trips, and even a bluff with ace-high. Sam Kiki then flops quads and gets paid on the river, while Feinstein's seven-figure stack takes a hit after a river bluff is unsuccessfully against Sameh Elamawy.