Wizdar

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Fishing season starts Feb 2.

Deftones

cool. This is the best poker show on TV, hands down.

Charlie Goose

Let the overexposure continue.

Copenhagen

Lederer, Darden, and Devilfish..nice table...I'll be watching.

Static Cling

If any of the poker shows deserve more exposure, it's this one. Like Def said, the best poker show out there. Maybe showing everyone this one will clue them in that this is the show to watch, not the others.

So all eleven will be at the same table at once?

Patman

I thought you can only fit 10 people at a conventional poker table.

Wizdar

I’ve played in a couple of tournaments at the Sahara in Vegas where they squeeze in 11 at the start.

I hope that, since this is finally being shown on “broadcast” TV, this will be the last friggin’ time we have to put up with the holdem tutorial.


I don't understand your objection.

Morf

Yes, it is truly horrible. Curse the show that introduced me to Texas Hold 'Em. Curses!

briank

Yes very good table along with Gus and Layne as well.

Static Cling

He posted a thread complaining about poker being too overexposed here. Never responded to the people who disagreed with him (including us), though.

Charlie Goose

It takes a minute to learn and a lifetime to master, dammit!

I really like the WPT, and the hosts are excellent. My complaint is that whenever something shows a little popularity, we are immediately inundated with clones, each one a little worse than the one before. Overexposure always ruins anything for me, not just limited to poker.

Layne Flack, Howard Lederer, Gus Hansen -
Tom Green, Shannon Elizabeth, Mo Gaffney -

Wizdar

Thanks, Mike for helping with my lack of short-term memory.

Charlie so far there hasn’t been an “inundation” of clones. Celebrity Poker is a concept that could have worked except that they split the entertainment value with the poker and neither benefited. WSoP has been around*, so you can’t be complaining about that. Fox’s Showdown at the Sands was an example (I hope) of the worst it can get.

And WPT – I can’t see how it could get any better than this.

I’ll agree with you to a point: some of these are going to be wrecks, and, like a car wreck, I can’t NOT look. But that’s my problem, yes?

I’m all for anything that’ll get more dead money in the B&Ms.


Gus Hansen?? I look forward to seeing if he can continue to win by playing crap hands. I can only hope he hates his new nickname as much as I do.

And I wanna see Juha reduced to tears. I think it’ll happen.


*Isn’t WPT a “clone” of WSoP? Honk!

Static Cling

If you don't watch the celebrity poker show, then you won't be ruined. Skip Showdown & WSoP while you're at it.

And Gus Hansen blows my mind. WPT - Bellagio just re-aired, and I'm in the early part of it... he doesn't seem as fearless as he was during the second tourney that he won.

Charlie Goose

As Wizdar stated above, I can't not look. I enjoy the game too much, playing and watching. I will however skip the Tom Green episode.

SO I will most likely watch and then come right into this forum to piss and moan about it.

Wizdar

I, for one, will look forward to every word.

And, if you need lessons in malcontent posting style, check out just about any of my posts in just about any Enterprise thread.



NEWS FLASH

Van Patten Wagers on Reality Poker
Sun January 4, 2004 06:42 PM ET

By Cynthia Littleton
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Actor Vince Van Patten has inked a deal to develop and host a reality show that aims to capitalize on TV's current craze for poker.

"Poker Dogs" would bring together professional poker players in an elimination-style competition series to compete for a big grand-prize pot. The project is set up at LMNO Prods., which is shopping the project to network and cable buyers.

Van Patten has already generated a cult following [] on the TV poker circuit as co-host of Travel Channel's "World Poker Tour" series. He's also a close friend of LMNO chief Eric Schotz.

"Poker players by their nature are natural storytellers," Schotz said. "Poker is the mechanism for (eliminating) the players, but there's so much more for us to tell about the players, about their strategies and how they play off each other."

In addition to Travel Channel's "World Poker Tour," Bravo last year launched its heavily promoted "Celebrity Poker Showdown," series and Game Show Network is also preparing a poker-themed show.

ESPN has for years harvested big ratings from its annual World Series of Poker telecasts, which was expanded for the first time last year to a seven-part summer series as opposed to the one-hour highlights reel that had aired in previous years.

Reuters/Hollywood Reporter


I guess the time that Charlie has warned us about is at hand. Can the Four Horsemen be far behind?

Static Cling

Vince Van Patten is an actor?

Wizdar

Yeah, having trouble with that myself.

I'm too scared to IMDb. Some things are better left a mystery.

Static Cling

I braved it.

Four words: Rooster: Spurs of Death!

Deftones

I'd rather watch Dick Van Patten play shuffleboard.

Charlie Goose

Maybe you haven't heard of a little gem titled Hell Night with Oscar nominee Linda Blair!

atari2600

awesome. there is so much crap on tv tehse days im glad they are putting more of the limited good stuff that is on.

Morf

Bumping up as a reminder.

Patman

I remember Vince Van Patton being on "The Six Million Dollar Man" where he plays a teen who gets bionic legs, but he can't handle the extra boost in speed, and has to be decomissioned.

Deftones

another bump as this is tomorrow! This will probably be better than the Superbowl.

Patman

OMG, Gus is gone!

and OMG again, there's a Bet Clock. Each player has 60 seconds to bet/call/fold or their hand is dead.