What happened to AJ Benza on High Stakes Poker?

AJ Benza, who was the host of the High Stakes Poker show that airs on the Game Show Network, was fired prior to the 6th season of High Stakes Poker. AJ Benza was replaced by Kara Scott, who mainly focuses on interviews rather than commentary.

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AJ Benza actually wrote about what happened to him in two separate blog posts, located here and here. The blog posts are rather long however, so we will summarize it for you.

AJ Benza was informed by Barry Nugent and David Shiff in October 2009 that they were planning on dropping him from the top rated poker show, and replacing him with an attractive female. AJ Benza actually told them that he would take a pay cut if it meant staying with the High Stakes Poker show, in case it was a financial decision. However the decision makers at the Game Show Network decided to release AJ anyway. This was unfortunate as Benza would do a lot of promotional work for the show for no financial benefit, like doing radio interviews to promote each season.

As mentioned, AJ Benza was replaced by Kara Scott, who does table interviews while Gabe Kaplan provides the commentary by itself. Internet reaction to the change has been very negative.

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