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 ...

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 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 ...

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.

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 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 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 ...

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.

Gabe Kaplan played Kotter in the 1970s sitcom "Welcome Back, Kotter." He is the author of "Kotter's Back: E-mails From a Faded Celebrity to a Bewildered World." Several years ago, I received an e ...

Alan Sacks told the Palm Beach Post in 2012 that at one point, he and Gabe Kaplan had been developing a Welcome Back, Kotter movie in which an adult Horshack would be a gay man working as a ...