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After 8 weeks of qualifiers the Main Event of the Premier League Poker V kicks off tonight on Sky Sports HD 2 at 10pm.

Tonight see's Group A play their first match.

Sam Trickett
Phil Laak
Tony G
Andy Frankenberger
Eugene Katchalov
Erik Seidel
Matthew Frankland
Luke Schwartz

Jesse May is joined by Vanessa Selbst in the commentary box.

To view the Promo click on the link

http://www.matchroompoker.com/

Looking forward to this. Great viewing

cheers for reminder got it on the planner now!!

Nice one I love the prem league haven't missed a series yet, should be a good one. Thanks for the reminder

Watched the first episode day before! Is this a weekkly telecast in Skysports/ Daily
?

weekly

can we watch online?

Id imagine so somewhere. Its on sky sports 2 tuesday 10pm, im sure somewhere online shows sky sports channel streams

Not sure, but it is available on "SkyGo", on an i-Pad, but only to Sky TV subscribers I imagine.

Think this is going to be the most boring series.

IMO they should condense each heat to 2hours instead of 4 hours over 2 weeks.

Bit miffed at full flush getting the bagel. Makes it tough for him to qualify now and he usually provides some of the best moments.

Just think some of the players add nothing. Frankenburger, katchalov, Seidel. Yes all awesome but pretty boring to watch

well wouldn't say frankendonkey was awesome, but yeh Seidel and Katchalov v.boring/

where can i see the qualifiers for this?

Maybe not technically, but his results are sick. He's obv super smart and seems like a nice guy too!

lol whoooshed by variance.

Seems to be tez. Selbst was trying not to call him a donk

No one is saying he's a bad person or doesn't give money to charity.


It's just quite clear from watching him play that he understands


[  ] strategy

[  ] logic

[  ] post flop play

[  ] stack sizes

[  ] League point formats

[  ] missing the flop

[  ] missing draws

[x ] 1000x better Jason Herbert then even Jason himself has.




[  ] all skill obv.

Haters gonna hate :)

Ah right, he's just run good a lot  :)up

yes yes he has.


have you not watched his heats?  on multiple occasions he did his utmost to give himself the least chance of qualifying, then the dealer said it's ok sir your an equity realisation specialist. yes sir, yes this flush draw will be completing on this specific run out here you go sir.


Before the mixed game thing he won, where they played PLO and NLH, he said before that 1) he wasn't very experienced in NLH which is true and 2) that it's ok because no one else at the table knew anything about PLO either so they were all in the same boat...... lol.

it's ok though because he of course went on to win his showdowns. expert.

I haven't, I don't give much credit to highly edited tv tourneys though. If they're not edited I'll take the time to watch and then shut up when he heaters from start to finish :)

They even managed to make me look like I wasn't stupid in the 2 I played :D

I was only going off the live final of the 6 max which I watched, in which he ran well obv  as he won and he also played very well too (whilst as also noted, technically bad). All my opinion of course.

Not bothered what Andrew thinks of frankenwotsit. Just know he is jel of me :)

You do have a fair old list on the go Herbie to be fair :D

He's right I don't doubt about how lacking he is technically, but we all know you have to run well to win tournaments and I don't buy that he's won so many just because he's lucky.

Put it this way over the next 5 years I doubt he will manage half of what he has already accomplished in his first 1/2 years.



The repot with QQ and then the tank fold in the heats is just so awesome. Then trying to justify it afterwards by saying yes I realise the whole world population thinks that's bad play but i'm Andy frankenburgerererererer and I win yeh so watch dis. Then one hand later with the same dynamics in place SNAP GET IN ACE HIGH NO FOLD EQUITY

yeh yeh sure you understand that points league mate.


oh s'ok you won.




HERBERT TEACH ME TO WIN PLS. I am le tilt by tourny variance. I WANT MY MARRAKESCH

Gone at the game mate. My only outs are that the kids start paying lodge :)

Yeah I make you right there and I doubt he should win another tourney for a good few years.

The thing is though, if he does  you can still say 'ahhh that heater is still going'

He wins nada and you just say 'there you go. he is now running to expectation'

The guy obviously does some terrible stuff, he obviously is nowhere near as adept from a technical aspect as any guy who's racked up millions of hands online and will play near perfect poker.

It's one of those that nobody can prove their point and we could just go around in circles disputing :D

No just watch him play and listen to him discuss hands.

It's 100% he's on a ridic heater.


Mbn to just be like ima play poker, let's play some 1k plus tournies as money means nothing to me. oh look I WIN lolz

Indeed, what an absolute life....

Fair play to him he was obviously a pretty good trader, or heatered at the right time again :P

I have no knowledge of him or his professional situation, but it must have been nice to be in banking when everyone spent 20 years pissing money up the wall during a massive economic run good heater! rotflmfao

Tonight at 1030 on Sky Sports HD 3 sees group B start their first match

Tom Dwan
Jungleman
Yevgeniy Timoshenko
Vanessa Selbst
Patrik Antonius
Scott Seiver
Elky
Ben Wilinofsky

Jesse May is joined by Phil Laak in the commentary box

Just got caught up with match 1 on Sky+

Selbst's commentary is SO bad.
Worst I can remember.

Listening to her trying to hold her tongue when discussing Frankenberger's play was one of the highlights for me.

This series is more about ability than personality. Not to say the previous series weren't good players and not to say this lot have no banter. Just that there are fewer players you feel are there as much for the TV audience as the poker audience.

As long as there is good chat and some good subplots, it'll be a cracker. Great poker is a given

Selbst is an absolute sicko, really doubt her commentary is bad at all.

heard her do EPT San Remo final table and she was excellent, really excellent.

yeah this ^

Me and Peej would still crush her in the booth though :P

Not literally of course, she'd take us both, no question.

wait

wat?

Her commentary was/is fantastic.

Also Griffin Benger's commentary was equally as good.

The problem is that she's one if those commentators who can't see justification for any play outside of her style of play. She's rude and condescending about any player who does things differently to her.

Phil Laak in his commentary has been the other extreme and he's ok with every play.

Somewhere in the middle is better. An acceptance that different playing styles exist and are valid and an attempt to understand / explain the play in question.

selbts comm was ok/good i thought, agree she sides with her own style tho.
phil laaks must be the worst ever, keeps saying i dunno i dunno

Yeah, his commentary is a little iffy.
However, Laak won his heat and is being nice about / to everyone.
Selbst insulted and criticised and bombed out early.
Bit of poetic justice :)

6 players remain in Group B Match 1 who will take down the 16 points.

The chip counts are as follows

Scott Seiver 595k
Jungleman 437k
Patrik Antonius 421k
ElkY 381k
Tom Dwan 316k
Yevgeniy Timoshenko 250k

the action is on Sky Sports HD2 at 1030pm..

Phil Laak again Joins Jesse May in the Comms box.

lol @ saying the commentary from Laak is a "little iffy". That's like saying Hitler's foreign policy was a little iffy :)
It's some of the worst commentary I've heard and he has zero clue what he is talking about

Selbst did very well in the booth I thought, she didnt insult anyone and in all honesty some of the play from Laak, Frankenberger and to some extent Tony G in that heat deserved criticism

Really enjoying the show so far. I was surprised Elky was so quiet, interesting to see Jungleman as its the first time I've seen him play. Looking forward to tonights episode :)

Laak seems to have a good record though in these TV thingies... Not that i have watched many but seen him get there a lot.
Dont know how, he's quite bad

how is laak so bad?

Just my opinion. I think he plays pretty face up most of the time. Not disputing his record just think he gets there more than he deserves in these jobbies.

Does that count as a Godwin's law lose?

probably not :)

LOL!

yeah it might be a bit thin :)

Really enjoyed Sam's commentary tonight, it was a nice balance of poker talk and light hearted banter. Hopefully will get to see him commentate more.

Yeah Sam came across very well and worked well with Jesse.

Lost a lot of respect for Selbst after using the majority of her time in the booth to berate another player. After a bad result in the first heat she needs a decent score this time. Only 50 mins in and after putting herself into first she proceeds to spew off back to last. Did not like her interview either but loved what Dwan had to say.

As typinG 88 v AA and wins for Vanessa Flop QQ8

Then gets it in bad on the flop with AA ......... She sucks.

This is getting good. Gl Matt Frankland and I like Frankenberger coz everyone hates him.

Olivier Busquet owns all in commentary, get him in.

Phil Laak one of the best professional poker players around imo.

Trolololol. His play on high stakes poker is awful, and I'm a fan!

Watching last nights episode and smiling at Tony G storming out of the casino with his boy friend, then he is going down the escalator with his bird and ruins it for me :)

My series link seems to gone from sky plus and can't find this anywhere. Saw it upto the final table where Matt is chip leader. Any idea where I can watch the rest of the final.

No spoilers please as I don't know the result

Its all on pokercast mate

cheers mate. Looks like I missed only the one episode. Sucks that Frankland did not win

Brilliant.  You post no spoilers and then....

Edited name so I don't have to chastise myself

Lol sorry I post stuff without thinking. But you already know this :)