Dutch Boyd (or someone appearing to be Dutch) has left a message in my Poker Chip Tricks forums. By the way, have you seen Dutch’s Ebay auctions? He’s auctioning off stake in himself for the next WSOP tournament.
On November 26th, my bankroll was at an all-time high of nearly $2,400. I had just moved up to $2/4 limit hold’em and was doing well. A few days before, on the 20th, I had even set some goals. Oh how quickly it all changes.
I’ve read other reviews of ESPN’s new poker show TILT and I have to disagree with them. I won’t even link them here because I’ve seen so many. I think they are all being a little to critical of the show. I mean, it’s a drama series on ESPN for Christ’s sake! Were you expecting a documentary filled with facts and figures and parts of poker that we don’t hear about?
I’ll start off with the preview show that aired on Wednesday night. When I read that Norman Chad was hosting I thought, “Great! Like I don’t get enough of him in the WSOP episodes.” Even though the preview was only a half hour long, I think they did an excellent job of setting up the show. Or maybe it was the fact that I only heard Chad’s voice for a couple of minutes. They gave a background of the story and talked with each of the main characters in the series. It was well done for the time allowed. Once the preview was overI remember thinking that I’d probably enjoy the series.
I was right. At least so far. Episode one starts off the action and sets up the rest of the series. We found out that Eddie, Miami, and Clark are teaming up to take down Don Everest, “The Matador.” The character of Lee Nickel will also be playing a large role in the show. He’s a sheriff on a mission to find out what happened to his brother and expose the Matador as a cheat.
ESPN created their own casino to film the show and as you watch it does look like a real casino. Other scenes such as a boxing club and the basement of a night club make you feel as if you’ve been introduced to the underground of poker. The poker hands that have been shown are more realistic than most movies, but there does seem to be a lot of bluffing so far. Reminds me of some of the hands I see online actually.
When I sat down to watch TILT, I was looking for entertainment, not a poker lesson. ESPN delivered. I’ll be tuning in each week to see what happens next and I suggest you do the same.
Over my last 13,000 hands, I’ve lost a total of $1.47. I’ve been playing horrible poker. It’s time for some heavy reading and a review of my play.
If you aren’t playing on Party Poker right now, what the hell are you thinking? The bad beat jackpot is almost at $700,000! Yes, that’s nearly 3/4 of a million!
I just played a pot limit hold’em game for over 2 hours and thought it was no limit the whole time. I kept wondering why I’d try to raise it up to $2 and my bet would only come out $1.75. Just goes to show I should stay away from the tables with a word […]
I hit my 3rd straight flush (one was royal) in the last month tonight. All of them have come in on the river.
…in the high stakes game of TILT, the most costly bet will be on the future…
I saw a Google Ad on one of my sites today for ESPN’s new poker show and thought I’d check it out. It looks entertaining, so I’ll be tuning in to watch. I need a regular show to watch each week besides ER anyways. There is a preview special with Norman Chad (Couldn’t they have picked someone better!) airing Wednesday, January 12th at 7:30pm ET on ESPN2 and the first episode is Thursday, January 13th at 9:00pm ET on ESPN. From the looks of it, there will be 9 episodes in all, so it’ll be a short series. One of the characters, Eddie, reminds me of Ben Affleck a little. I wonder if he was chosen for that reason…probably not.
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My friend Dave just bought me this book after he’d purchased the original Killer Poker. From what he’s said it really gets into the mind games that you play with yourself in poker. Just what I need lately. I hope it will help me to figure out why I think some of the things I do or act in certain ways. Watch out fish! My poker library is growing quite large lately. I have at least 6 books that I’ve yet to crack the cover on. I guess it’s time for more study and less poker play.
Nick Momrik 