"high stakes poker"

[doublemeup 0]

Does anyone know when this show will air and on what network? Thank you.

[Marcstar 0]

I have no clue...but I've been waiting for a show like this. I only wish they'd play more than NL holdem...but I guess since it's for TV the TV people wanted it to be NLH. Whatever...it should be very interesting.Maybe in the future they will show the big game as it really is with all the mixed games they play.

[richard_dionysus 0]

Hope they have the whole program running on real-time, like cricket. None of this highlights nonsense.

[wingy56 0]

I think that for TV it has to be delayed. Unless your playing, most hands are deadly dull. Fold, limp, fold, fold, raise, fold, fold, fold....next hand. TV demands that they show the fireworks hands. All ins, big bets, critical hands for the outcome is all they want to show. If you doubt this, would you want to watch the WHOLE final table at this years WSOP? All 6 or 7 hours of it? An hour at a time or all at once? Your audience would be hards core poker fanatics and those that stop in for a few and move on. Not really the demo that advertisers covet.

[cabbage 0]

Hope they have the whole program running on real-time, like cricket. None of this highlights nonsense.

Are there really "highlights" of cricket?...how about highlights of lawn darts.

[chrozzo 19]

Wasnt the final table like 14 or 15 hours?Anyways, i think this is a great show, ive have been wanting to see something like this. Im surprised they only went with 300/600 and not more for the blinds, but anyways, im looking forward to it.

[KJ_Aces_Kings 0]

Which sucks, i used to have it but now i don't....Phil Hellmuth is also supposed to be on the show....

[KJ_Aces_Kings 0]

i think it's low so that the action will be good when the big hands come up...

[chrozzo 19]

Oh goody, now we get to watch Mr. Ego piss and moan when Danniel rakes scoops his chips in. hehe

[chrozzo 19]

Oh goody, now we get to watch Mr. Ego piss and moan when Danniel rakes scoops his chips in. hehe

[doublemeup 0]

Wasnt the final table like 14 or 15 hours?Anyways, i think this is a great show, ive have been wanting to see something like this. Im surprised they only went with 300/600 and not more for the blinds, but anyways, im looking forward to it.

no it was more like 5-6 hours. Its good the blinds are small because that means more action. I like action! And for all of you who think that the live broadcasts are boring or it doesn't interest you i feel for ya. You didn't find Phil Ivey and J-Dag heads up live interesting? You didn't find that Fulltilt live tournament interesting? I'd rather see 7 hours of folding and small pots from top pros than a watered down 1 hour condensed wsop final table.

[chrozzo 19]

actually, play on the finl day lasted exactly 13 hours and 56 minutes.

[srblan 0]

Hope they have the whole program running on real-time, like cricket. None of this highlights nonsense.

That would be like watching paint dry.

[srblan 0]

Anyone hear if the game is going to be capped?

[srblan 0]

Does anyone know when this show will air and on what network? Thank you.

The show is supposed to air on GSN - the game show network. Here is an article about it: http://www.pokernews.com/news/2005/09/gsn-...takes-poker.htm

[doublemeup 0]

Does anyone know when this show will air and on what network? Thank you.

The show is supposed to air on GSN - the game show network. Here is an article about it: http://www.pokernews.com/news/2005/09/gsn-...takes-poker.htm

thanks for the link. that f.uckin sucks because i don't have gsn :cry:

[sniper6121 0]

Hey Daniel I can't wait to watch the event on tv! Sounds like you made the right plays in every situation, im sure you will do much better in Day Two of the event. It will also be cool to watch the props on tv. The guy that made $170,000 off of props pretty crazy. Im willing to bet that once the show airs on tv everyone will be playing props!

[endo 0]

would you want to watch the WHOLE final table at this years WSOP? All 6 or 7 hours of it? An hour at a time or all at once?

Um... yes. A resounding yes. I would hope that most members of this message board would agree. I'd love to see full coverage of every hand, and I'd want to see everyone's hole cards on every hand so you can see what people are folding. They should turn up the players' mics too. And I'd like no commentary. And no human-interest side-interviews, or anything else that's not poker (with the exception that I wouldn't mind seeing Shana Hiatt pop on screen from time to time . This would be the perfect poker show, and I could watch it an hour at a time, or 7 hours at a time or however long it took. I agree it'll never happen on mainstream or even semi-mainstream tv (I wonder how it would fare as a straight-to-dvd release). But I would have thought that most players here would want to see coverage like this. Like the poster above pointed out - the rare live shows have been amazing.

[doublemeup 0]

would you want to watch the WHOLE final table at this years WSOP? All 6 or 7 hours of it? An hour at a time or all at once?

Um... yes. A resounding yes. I would hope that most members of this message board would agree. I'd love to see full coverage of every hand, and I'd want to see everyone's hole cards on every hand so you can see what people are folding. They should turn up the players' mics too. And I'd like no commentary. And no human-interest side-interviews, or anything else that's not poker (with the exception that I wouldn't mind seeing Shana Hiatt pop on screen from time to time . This would be the perfect poker show, and I could watch it an hour at a time, or 7 hours at a time or however long it took. I agree it'll never happen on mainstream or even semi-mainstream tv (I wonder how it would fare as a straight-to-dvd release). But I would have thought that most players here would want to see coverage like this. Like the poster above pointed out - the rare live shows have been amazing.

i could not agree more. if they showed the whole wsop final table with no commentators and every hand that would be 10X more interesting than a one hour show where 40 minutes of it are the big all ins or big bluffs but they don't show how those big bluffs were set up. i would hope most people would love to see the whole wsop final table but some people are donkeys.

[endo 0]

It isn't even 40 minutes of big action hands. They spend tons of time on profiles and interviews (often of joe-scmoe satellite winner who we'll never see again, talking about his charity work, or showing us his rv). And then they waste a good 2-6 minutes on showing how certain players dress, or watching them play rock paper scissors, or some other nonsense. And there are even still poker shows that take time to explain the rules every episode. Can you imagine watching football on tv and they explain the rules every game? It's madness.Sorry I'm keeping the rant going. I just can't stand the current state of poker coverage on tv. But there's usually just enough content to make me watch - so I'm bitter.

[chunky04 0]

I think it will take the English (or some other criket following nation with the resources to pull it off) to do live poker consistently. Americans don't have the patience. Hence they can't understand the beauty that is Test Cricket (ODIs are crap!). 5 days of doing bugger all - its fantastic.No honey, I can't mow the lawn till the cricket finishes.When will that be?Oh, about 5 days.The beauty of it is you don't have to pay attention the whole time. You can have a siesta, read a book, drink some beer, play online poker on a laptop, whatever. You'll still get a good impression of how the various teams play. I imagine poker would be little different. You don't pay attention to the whole thing, but gradually by osmosis you emerge with a better picture of whats really happening.

[chrozzo 19]

I think this poker craze will eventually die down, as has most current trends after they have run thier course. I do not think that if the WSOP keeps its 10k buy-in that there will be 15000 people in next years event. I think that most players who are doing well now and are learning the game will keep playing, but remain recreational players. I believe the current state the world is in now, and the rate at which things are changing, poker will be the last thing on any serious-minded non-poker professional's mind. Manyt things will happen in our world, and things will get bad go to worse and then improve and then the cycle will repeat, thats nature. Maybe it helps that many ppl are going broke cause they dont know how to play, lol.I have enjoyed this poker trend as it has gotten me in touch with many ppl i would have never met before. I do get annoyed, as do many of you, with these horrible poker shows, bubt i think the networks are just pandering to the everyday person that just wants to watch human interest poker themed nonsense, lol. I am looking foward to the high stakes show. Bummer its on GSN though, espn would have been much nicer.

[srblan 0]

I much prefer FSN's coverage to ESPN's at this point. Not so much the Poker Superstars II, but some of their other coverage.

[byaaatch 0]

A great show would be just have a camera in the poker room when chan, doyle, harman and all the other guys have their nightly which leads to daily which leads till 18 hours later. That would be some very interesting tv. You dont have to see the guy crying when he loses a pot. just to see how that game runs would be interesting. not too mention to see that much money changing hands would be very interesting.

[sniper6121 0]

I would think they would air it after the wsop is over they still have i believe 4 weeks till that is over. So my guess would be December or January...