Wednesday, February 08, 2006

High Stakes Poker

I've recently begun watching High Stakes Poker of the Game Show Network. It's not tournament style, just some great players playing a cash game. Daniel Negreanu, Doyle Brunson, Sammy Farha, Jennifer Harman and Freddy Deeb among others. It's cool because they don't have to follow tournament rules, so they do some cool stuff. If you go all in, and your opponent agrees you can deal the turn and river twice, and chop if it comes out once each way. Lakers owner Jerry Buss was playing, he played so tight it was ridiculous. He got some bad luck, but everytime he got a decent hand he didn't win any money because everyone else folded to him. He lost his first 100K then took 50K off Daniel's stack. I recommend this show to poker fans who get tired of the overdramatics of a tournament, plus Gabe Kaplan is the announcer.

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