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I watched "Celebrity Poker Showdown" last night on Bravo.
The poker play was pretty much what I expected: fairly terrible, punctuated by moments of hilarity as the celebs considered -- and made -- ridiculously bad plays. From a poker standpoint, there's nothing here to really learn. But the show was still pretty entertaining.
Ben Affleck was clearly the experience at the table, but even he made some questionable plays. Don Cheadle and Kevin Pollak offered some decent comic relief. Along with Pollak, the show is commentated by tiltboy Phil Gordon, who is one of my poker idols.
The other strike against the show is that the celebs are not playing with their own money, but for a charity of their choice, which makes the wins and losses a lot less compelling in my eyes.
But as I said, it's fun and funny to watch celebrities playing poker. I'd probably pay $50 on pay-per-view if they had a cast reunion of The Golden Girls in a celebrity poker showdown. And while I don't expect the ratings of Bravo's Celebrity Poker Showdown to come close to the World Poker Tour or World Series of Poker broadcasts, it still is an interesting and encouraging addition to the TV poker lineup. When it comes down it, your average american TV watcher probably cares (and understands) a lot less about quality of play, and celebrities playing poker will get a whole class of viewer who would never watch nobodies playing. So I think it's a great thing for poker.
There was this hilarious take on United Poker Forum:
I can't believe Hollywood caught on to our beloved game and is attempting to kill it with celebs. What's next?I read another article somewhere this week that claimed CPS is going to kill TV poker, which is absolutely untrue. Despite the poor play, I'm going to keep watching the show, and millions of Americans who otherwise would have little interest in poker, but may have a lot of interest in, say, Ben Affleck or Martin Sheen, will be tuning in too.
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As one of the Executive Producers of CPS, I'd like to thank you for your kind words about the show.
I, too, am a long time hold 'em player.
I, too, marvel at some of the plays made by some of the celebrities.
I, too, agree that CPS will not only not kill TV poker but will EXPAND the audience for all poker on TV.
I believe most of our audience comes for the celebs and then stays for the poker. We are teaching hundreds of thousands of people what hold 'em is, how it's played, and how exciting it can be - sometimes amatuerish play helps this part - there's nothing as dramatic as a crazy runner runner suck-out of which we've had many.
Many people have written and/or called me saying that they knew nothing about poker before, but now they want to play.
How can that be bad for poker?!
Posted by: Andrew Hill Newman on December 25, 2003 03:38 AMSpeaking of Ben Affleck, he was on Larry King last night and sounded like he wanted to run for political office!
Posted by: Scarlett on July 27, 2004 10:59 PMIn the moth of November, are thre any tapings of Celebrity Poker at the Palms Hotel?
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Kelly
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