High Stakes Poker on Ch 121

[I, Zimbra]

I make it five episodes into the first series repeats now on Challenge - which make up Day One.

[tikay]

Good TV, & different enough to be way, way, above the run of the mill, made for tv junk that is flooding our screens.

Fahra is a real character, larger than life.

Daniel, well there's some nonsense there, he has those two "bricks" (both $500,000 in 100 dollar bills) - what's that about, an ego trip? They could just as easily give him chips.

Sheiky - his rudeness HAS to be an act, after all, he's not pure American, which would make it plausible.

Harman is Harman, trades on her cutie pie looks.

Greenstein cool, yes, dull too, but a good foil for the noisy buggers.

All in all, you could not script a better blended bunch.

Which is what niggles at the back of my mind.....I keep thinking "WWF" - something which started out "straight", & gradually evolved to a circus, a farce so dumbed down that a 3 year old can see through it. (Though obviously, your average American still thinks it's legit).

Am I the only one so cynical as to wonder just a tinsy winsy bit that we are not getting what it says on the tin, that this is the begininng of Poker's version of WWF?

 

[Sark79]

Are you saying WWF is fake, tikay ?     I thought the Ultimate Warrior was a real guy.

[I, Zimbra]

Sheiky - his rudeness HAS to be an act, after all, he's not pure American, which would make it plausible.

Was it an act as well, then, when he was on Matusow's table at the WSOP Main Event last year?

Next we'll have people saying that Hellmuth's temper tantrums are all an act... 

[tikay]

No, Sheiky's rudeness is not an act, though I fancy he hams it up for the TV Cameras, as he did against Matusow.

It all just seems a little "convenient" to me. I mean, that AA v KK jobbie. The Table Mouth v the Table Quiet Man. KK v AA. Fahra says "run it twce", then flops his miracle card &, incredibly, repeats the offer, & Greenstein politely declines.

Mr Buss, clearly WAY out of his depth, like the WWF wrestler on his last lergs. But then, somehow, Mr Down & Out makes a comeback - see next episodde?

Daniel giving it the Big Dick thing with his $1 million cash on the table.

Jenifer sitting there, the table beauty.

Todd Bruinson, "Mr lolok at how cool I am".

I mean, you could not script it better. Could you?........

Guess I'm too cynical. But I am wary of it's integrity. Remember, these are Americans, so they have a very low opinion of our intelligence.

[Div]

I see what you are saying Tikay, but do you really think an ego as monstrous as Hellmuth would consent to being made to look such a fool on TV, for the sake of better ratings?

Personally I think someone came up with a good idea, got the right people round the table, and it paid off.

[Gryff]

You have to have some form of an ego to get that far.
As for Jerry buss etc the guys a bajillionaire, why would he need to do any of that?

If you listen to the cardplayer radio show, you'll know Barry Greenstein trashed his hotel room the night that happened and got banned from whatever hotel chain he was staying at ( this is according to his adopted son Joe Sebok ).

Plus they are all hamming it up for the TV hoping to get paid for advertising etc. etc.

[Royal Flush]

I have to say when i first saw it i thought so with the Doyle Brunson all in pre flop for $500,000 with AK.

The more you see though the more it seems real to me, Daniel on tilt, he isnt that good an actor, you can see his anguish.

Season 2 makes me sure, the firts 2 episodes were just poor, but as the night has gone on its got much more entertaining!

[Sark79]

I don't know about any of this.  I am just getting my head round WWF being fake.   

[RED-DOG]

No, Sheiky's rudeness is not an act, though I fancy he hams it up for the TV Cameras, as he did against Matusow.

It all just seems a little "convenient" to me. I mean, that AA v KK jobbie. The Table Mouth v the Table Quiet Man. KK v AA. Fahra says "run it twce", then flops his miracle card &, incredibly, repeats the offer, & Greenstein politely declines.

Mr Buss, clearly WAY out of his depth, like the WWF wrestler on his last lergs. But then, somehow, Mr Down & Out makes a comeback - see next episodde?

Daniel giving it the Big Dick thing with his $1 million cash on the table.

Jenifer sitting there, the table beauty.

Todd Bruinson, "Mr lolok at how cool I am".

I mean, you could not script it better. Could you?........

Guess I'm too cynical. But I am wary of it's integrity. Remember, these are Americans, so they have a very low opinion of our intelligence.

I don't buy it. I think it's real.

[Sark79]

It is well done if it is fake ( The Poker that is, not the wrestling )

[Tonji]

Jerry Buss said in one episode that he's willing to pay the 50 or 100K just so he can sit at the table & play with the best. I like his attitude, he's just having fun, but I guess with his dough it doesn't quite hurt as much when he looses.

[tikay]

I don't know about any of this.  I am just getting my head round WWF being fake.   

What's your take on Father Christmas. & the Tooth Fairy, Sark?

[Gryff]

I don't know about any of this.  I am just getting my head round WWF being fake.   

What's your take on Father Christmas. & the Tooth Fairy, Sark?

What are you trying to say here Tikay?!?!?!?!?!


 

[tikay]

I have to say when i first saw it i thought so with the Doyle Brunson all in pre flop for $500,000 with AK.

The more you see though the more it seems real to me, Daniel on tilt, he isnt that good an actor, you can see his anguish.

Season 2 makes me sure, the firts 2 episodes were just poor, but as the night has gone on its got much more entertaining!

Well I'm glad you actually gave it some thought Flushy, & OK, I'm not convinced it's a sham, not by any means. But the jurys still out for me.

I've had a life-long tendancy to question everything I see, hear, or read. Ask myself "why?", "oh really?", "does it all stack up?", that sort of thing. It's a gut reaction to anything & everything I encounter in life. Often, I'm right, often, I'm wrong, but I can't help doing it. If someone tells me Couch Kev has won a Tourney, I ask myself, "is that likely?".......And something - I'm not sure what yet - does not add up with this show. I mean, from the players perspective, viz-a-viz cameras, why?.......