Yay, the fun HSP episodes are starting next week

[Whitewash]

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When is Ivey going to be on?

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Prob not until around the 12th episode or so.

Negreanu will be back on since he played on both days of taping.

[Tom Bayes]

I thought the episodes with Jamie Gold getting PWNED were fun to watch [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

[JJBuffone]

I wouldn't necessarily say "fun" as much as I would say "better poker" episodes. Watching Jamie Gold spew chips was pretty fun and entertaining. But yeah, I'm definitely excited to see the new and better players come in.

[Quake1028]

So, will these be the first episodes of HSP (excluding the Kaplan thing) that DN misses?

[CaseS87]

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Lindgren and Barry are fine because they play excellently.

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That's the thing - they are too good. It's more fun to see people who have some flaws in their game (Gold, Matusow, etc).

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I disagree. The reason I watch HSP is to watch good players. Every other poker show on TV has plenty of bad players to watch.

[Whitewash]

The monster table (Ivey, Antonius, Brad Booth, sbrugby, Dags, Antonio) at the end of the season will have a lot of guys who are dry toast, yet it is likely to be the most fascinating set of poker episodes to be on TV yet. Good poker TV does not rely on colorful characters.

[Jourdain]

Yeah, the last episodes looks promising as you can see some shots in the intro every week.

Brad Booth shoves an enormous tower of cash bricks, David Williams is giggling like a school girl and Benyamine looks like Booth just tipped the waitress. Fun stuff.

[Assani Fisher]

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Will also be interested to see if aba 3 bets with any marginal hands PF (which is common place online, but rare and frowned upon live).

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[Ghazban]

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Will also be interested to see if aba 3 bets with any marginal hands PF (which is common place online, but rare and frowned upon live).

[/ QUOTE ]can you explain what you mean by this a bit?

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I'm pretty sure he means that he has no idea what he's talking about.

[DougieG]

Haha I didn't know what OP meant by that either.

Anyway, I don't really think one should watch HSP simply for the poker being played as so many of the variables are missing. We don't see every hand and so we probably won't know if Aba is 3 betting light if the original raiser folds (as unlikely as that is on HSP). Certainly it is far more entertaining from a poker perspective than the crappy donkaments on tv, but personally I find that the entertainment value of the people exceeds that of the play.