[Gonso]

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5-3 suited is one of my favorite hands to play, tourney or not. If you do hit the flop, especially with the ace low straight, you will get paid off.

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It sounds so simple when you say it like that, but you're making a ton of bad assumptions. It's hard to get implied odds with 53s, and I think suited connectors are vastly overrated by a lot of players.

You both need deep stacks. Next, you have to flop the nuts with that ace-low straight (very hard to do). What's next? Oh, he has to have that big hand. Wait, there's more... he has to be willing to risk all of his money with just an overpair. If he has trips or decides to semi-bluff a flush draw, he's going to have outs to make a better hand than you.

That's a lot of criteria. It's even harder in tourneys when you've got a medium-size stack. You going to call a raise with 53s when you only have 15 big blinds left?

As far as the players chopping after filming, that's not such a crazy notion. They get, what, $1,250 an hour per (something like that), which in an of itself is nothing. But they have the freedom to create an artificial table image to the whole viewing audience, including maybe a few business guys who might come out to Vegas and blow $150k.

I don't think they actually DO that, of course, but it's not inconcievable. I'd do it.