High Stakes Poker 4/2

[kflop]

Brad Booth's play was amazing. i think Gabe was right when he said, that move would pay dividends down the road.

They have to explain things to the general public. I thought Gabe had a bad week last week but was right on tonight.

[WutRUTryin2Hit]

Gabe said at least one retarded thing tonight: That Patrik Antonius was scared cause there was so much money on the table. Yeah, I mean, maybe scared his boner would show up on camera I guess. Otherwise: BAD READ GABE.

[mikechops]

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They have to explain things to the general public. I thought Gabe had a bad week last week but was right on tonight.

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Yeah, I thought he was off last week but he called it pretty good here.

[The_Taj]

this whole season has pretty much made me question why A.J Benza is an any way associated with the poker world, especially the best televised poker show out there. He constantly displays his lack of knowledge and interest to learn and is more entertained with poking fun at Gabe and what the player's wear than the actual poker. It's almost unbearable to listen to him and know that there are guys like Dave Tuchman, Bart Hansen, even Phil Helmuth who know an ungodly amount more about poker than Benza and have experience in the announcers booth. GSN needs to seriously consider getting Benza out of there.

[phydaux]

I say if Phil Gordon isn't going to play (And why WOULD he? He'd get eaten alive) then they should dump AJ and get Phil. At least Phil & Gabe could have an intelegent conversation about the relative merits of playing a hand one way of the other.

[Dynasty]

The Phil Ivey fans can't be happy with what they've seen. Other than making some loose calls pre-flop, Ivey has been playing ABC poker.

Brad Booth got some star power tonight. As long as he doesn't loose a lot in the remainder of the season, he should pick up a lot of fans.

Did anybody else notice how upset Brian Townsent looked when D'Agastino showed his set of Queens? Townsend missed an opportunity to win a monster pot if a King or 8 came on the river.

[sirpupnyc]

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why A.J Benza is an any way associated with the poker world, especially the best televised poker show out there. He constantly displays his lack of knowledge and interest to learn and is more entertained with poking fun at Gabe and what the player's wear than the actual poker.

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Maybe because every poker show has one person who knows the game and one donkey sidekick who couldn't tell you how many cards there are in a deck? Dave Foley? Shauna? Courtney? That idiot guy on all the FSN shows? VVP? Norm? (Not that Lon's any kind of poker expert, but Norm's clearly the donkey sidekick there.)

It may be the best poker on TV, certainly in the top tier, but it has to sell as entertainment too. Not that AJ's especially entertaining, but give Gabe a sidekick who knows the game and the show sinks under the weight of intelligent analysis as people who just want to be told some guy has casually flicked "twunnyfive graaand" into the pot.

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LOL, AJ already has a page on "Am I Annoying" based on his previous career. You can vote your dislike there :

http://www.amiannoying.com/(S(dqyqrq...w.aspx?ID=2270
AmIAnnoying.com

Also this story is awesome :

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A.J. Benza Dropped from Howard Stern
A.J. Benza was kicked out of the studio during a recent taping of the Howard Stern show following a physical attack on one of the Stern regulars.
After his short-lived talk show, "A.J. After Hours," was unceremoniously cancelled by the E! network, A.J. Benza made the mistake of heading to the Howard Stern show, where he's appeared frequently in the past. A.J. should have known going in that he was going to be hammered by Stern and his cronies about the disaster that was "A.J. After Hours" and Benza actually tolerated a few rounds on the hot seat as callers and Stern himself poked fun at the show's failure.

"You're like Yoko," Stern joked sarcastically. "You're ahead of your time." Following a call in which the listener claimed that Benza's show had cured his insomnia, Benza finally came unglued. He accused Stuttering John Melendez of screening callers so that only the most offensive listeners would get through and actually threatened Stern's stuttering sidekick on the air. At one point, Benza raged, "I'm gonna grab Stuttering John by the neck and punch him in his face!" This only served to inspire Melendez, who then posed as a caller and lambasted Benza and his show, going so far as to refer to Benza's baldness. Stuttering John claimed that A.J.'s hair was so embarrassed that it left his head.

After a few moments, the tension seemed to ease, but Benza didn't back down from his threat to physically beat Melendez and confronted him unexpectedly in the hallway of the studio during a break. A.J. attacked Melendez, slapped him in the face and then scrapped briefly with Gary Dell'Abate, who was attempting to separate the two men. Needless to say, Benza was asked to leave the building at that point by K-Rock general manager Tom Chiusano, and the incident ended. As expected, Howard has parlayed the mishap into a slew of new material for his already outrageous and wildly successful radio show.


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BTW obviously the 4[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img]2[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] bluff by Brad is sick and all, but I don't really get what he was representing. I don't see him playing a set like that, shoving effectively $300k into a $50k or so pot. If I didn't see his cards I'd be thinking A[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img]X[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img]

[sleepi]

he was reppng a straight, set or 67. it was pretty obvious ivey had a big pair and if a [censored] card came on the turn river, it would be an easy fold for ivey, which is something a guy with the hands booth was representing wouldn't want.