Gsn Drops Wpt

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Actually GSN doesn't own HSP, Poker Productions or something like that does. The same company that owns the Poker After Dark series. GSN only owns the episodes that have been aired and/or paid for but unaired. The guy who runs Poker Prods has been quoted as saying he's shopping the show to other networks (independently of the WPT obviously) and also a whole different concept that is yet unknown.

No, GSN owns it. Poker PROductions just produces it for them. I think I'm familiar with all of Mori Eskandani's public statements and I've never heard him say they were shopping HSP. He's said just the opposite, though: that GSN owns it but cash games will get produced under other names, that PAD will have two weeks of cash games, etc. HSP is GSN's unless they sell it (rarely happens). There's plenty of stuff about this on Poker on TV. Search on Poker PROductions or Mori Eskandani on that site and you'll find lots of quotes about HSP.