poker den on channel 5

[AdamM]

while most of us are enjoying the poker boom, and striving for a cleaner, smoke free, cheat free, healthily competitive game some dummy has decided we need a TV poker game set in a mock cellar with bare brick, cigar smoke and playing with 50 notes. aweful gaudy and a step back.
I sometimes hear people, Particularly Vicky Coren springs to mind, talking about how they were drawn to the game by it's seedy, dangerous image and how they still like that. Not for me, it was the dangerous seedy image that kept me away from live poker and it's a huge relief that, dispite some seedy, smokey cheats the game is moving in a very different direction.

WPT/EPT/BPO GOOD
POKER DEN BAD

[Longy]

Agreed adam. Also the whole using of 50 quid notes doesn't work either it just slows the game down. As much as i love everything poker related, I will giving this a miss in future.

[Div]

It made me think of the desperate Lock Stock n Two Smoking Barrels rip offs that were peddled a while back.

Totally agree about the cash v chips thing too.

[ariston]

I like the idea of using cash instead of chips as an experiment I must admit. Earlier in the year I played in an event and put in around $50ks worth of chips (if you took the value of them chip/buyin wise) on a bluff. Could I have done so if it had been cold hard cash? I would like to think so but the honest answer would be that I dont know. One of the nice things about the ws is that the chips are very similar to the cash chips you play roulette with at you local casino and if you buyin an event for $2000 then thats your starting stack, this adds to the game IMO. When you get a nice stack in front of you its hard not to imagine being able to go and cash out at the cash desk. Wonder if anyone at the pokerden has been caught weeding off yet?