One of poker’s greatest shows is getting a new host. High Stakes Poker said goodbye last week to longtime commentator Gabe Kaplan, who announced his retirement after nine seasons on the program.

Gabe Kaplan was born in Brooklyn in the shadows of Ebbets Field. He quit high school at sixteen to seek a career in pro baseball but became a stand-up comedian instead. In 1975, he co-created and ...

The name Gabe Kaplan has been missing from the comedy rolls for about 12 years. The star of ABC’s 1975-79 comedy “Welcome Back, Kotter” was a hot commodity on the club circuit before he ...

Gabe Kaplan and AJ Benza will return to the booth, reuniting the commentary team that hosted the first five seasons together. Kaplan is a 75-year-old comedian and actor who has been around the ...

Gabe Kaplan was the only celebrity at poker tournaments in the 1970s Ladies and gentlemen, let me reintroduce you to Las Vegas’ first celebrity poker player — Gabe Kaplan. You know him better ...

Gabe Kaplan poses at Barnes and Noble to promote his book, "Kotter's Back," July 2, 2007, in New York. Getty (CBS) John Travolta is set to appear with some of the Sweathogs when "Welcome Back ...

Folks at Game Show Network have changed things up again in regards to "High Stakes Poker," and it's not likely for the better. Gabe Kaplan is out as the show's host after six seasons and is being ...

Gabe Kaplan, best known as TV's Mr. Kotter, has won such major poker tournaments as the 1980 Superbowl of Poker and 1987's Knights of the Round Table Champions ...

Gabe Kaplan knows Groucho, and he's bringing him back to life on stage By Robert Faires, Fri., Oct. 8, 2004. Tweet. print. write a letter. Gabe Kaplan making his Marx ...

WELCOME BACK, KOTTER, Debralee Scott, Gabe Kaplan, 1975 - 1979. Courtesy the Everett Collection Background: Debralee Scott was born on April 2, 1953, in Elizabeth, New Jersey.

The basic idea for Welcome Back Kotter was inspired by Gabe Kaplan's days as a student at Brooklyn, New York's New Ultrecht High School. Unbeknowst to him at the time, the hours he spent in ...

Marcia Strassman, who played Gabe Kaplan's wife, Julie, on the 1970s sitcom "Welcome Back, Kotter," succumbed Saturday to the breast cancer she had been battling for years. She was 66.