Second episode of the much popular ‘High Stakes Poker’ Season 5 was stared airing Sunday night. There will be 13 episodes in all. The main attraction of the game is a stunning $318,000 pot between 2008 WSOP Main Event Champion Peter Eastgate and Ilari "Ziigmund" Sahamies. The minimum buy-in is a cool $200,000.

The people who took to the felts in the second episode were the same team that appeared in last week season’s premiere. Apart from Eastgate and Sahamies, this included David Benyamine, Barry Greenstein, Tom "durrrr" Dwan, Eli Elezra, Doyle Brunson, and Daniel Negreanu. On the game front, this week’s edition of High Stakes Poker featured a straddle in virtually every hand. Further, the first pot of the evening included a ‘sleeper straddle’, which the game host Gabe Kaplan explained as “You're not to the immediate left of the big blind. If everyone between you and the big blind goes out, then the straddle counts. If they play, then it doesn’t mean anything" to the audience.

As mentioned, the $318,000 pot between Eastgate and Sahamies is the largest in the second season of High Stakes Poker. In the game, Sahamies straddled to $1600 pre-flop, followed by promptly raising with pocket nines. In reply, Eastgate called holding J-10, and the flop came J-6-A. When Sahamies made a $20,000 continuation bet, Eastgate made the call with middle pair. The turn was four. In what Kaplan called ‘a great bet and a great read’, Eastgate bet $39,000 when Sahamies checked. Sahamies called in anticipation of a river should a Jack come. Sahamies checked once again, following which Eastgate fired $85,000 into the pot with trips, and Sahamies looked him up. Peter Eastgate scooped the massive pot with trip jacks. Sunday’s episode also featured the first all in of the season. After many twists and turns, the pot was split between Negreanu and Elezra. In the last hand shown, Dwan won a $237,200 pot with the worst hand among all.

The last night’s episode also came packed with some new commercials, debuting for Season 5. Among them was the ad of DoylesRoom.net, for profit.com counterpart that shifted allegiance from the popular Microgaming Network to Cake Poker Network. It is also one such site that still accepts players from the US sans any conditions. Also, the Poker News Daily Guest Columnists, Mike Sexton and Linda Johnson, promoted Card Player Cruises, whose next adventure is scheduled to take place in Caribbean at the end of the current month.