that was the worst hsp show ever, I dont mind gabe missing ( he was great tho )

the standard of poker was so bad it felt like a sit n go, 2 many whales and tourney donks... its not looking good, pitty

On the Vanessa vs. Croak hand, is there any holding that beats JJ that would've just called the flop min-raise, and then donked the turn when the heart came? I can't think of a single one.

I hope the mix of players improves because that first episode was crap. I also hope Norm loosens up.

They need one less recreational player per table...maybe two.

also either get rid of Kara Scott or have her actually do something....and have her use her English Accent.

I read the forums before I watched the show, so I was expecting something much worse than what I got. Yes the shoving and whatnot was bad (you could tell Doyle was aggrivated/licking his chops) but overall I think for a first show Norm did pretty well. He had some duds but he also had some funny deadpan stuff. I can see why the younger generation would not like it, it is more old-school comedy than the modern physical/slapstick comedy that seems to prevail these days

lets mass ban the show! repeat after me, i will never wach hp .

the show is sd not even wide screen. high stakes poker? high definition? cheap basterds

Speaking as someone who thought Norm would be horrible.. he wasn't. He had a few good jokes and handled himself decently. That being said, Gabe is much better, no debate here. However, the bigger issue is having only ONE PERSON in the booth. There's a universal system of broadcasting where TWO people broadcast an event. It's been that way and it will always be that way because it WORKS WELL! GSN decided to violate this universal law of broadcasting to save, about what, 3% of the shows budget? lame.

Did anyone watch this in 3D? If so, did you find the effects entertaining?

I hope the upcoming series would change drastically because this is just a sure way of ruining HSP. 3 whales, 2 tourney players and countless all ins with overpairs and top pairs ain't a proper 250BB+ HSNL game.

sums it all up+1!

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I just got this from YouTube, and it looks like all uploads of this episode have been taken down. Not like anyone would watch this again or anything.

A lot of truth to this. If it's a budget issue make note that Barry Greenstein in this thread said he'd announce for free. Not HSP per se since he's already on the show, but I have a hard time imagining that pros would turn down a chance at the exposure or price themselves out of the market (e.g. Hellmuth hanging around the WSOP ME booth during the final table, I got the impression he wasn't getting paid as he kind of came and went as he pleased).

A good example is the Phil Gordon / Dave Foley dynamic on Celebrity Poker Showdown. Foley would deliver often hilarious lines that didn't even pretend to have anything to do with poker and Gordon would play straight man and give advice. Of course that particular combo may be better suited to a celebrity donkfest but I'm not so sure.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lvqmjwBc2o

This is pretty fantastic news because it means we now get treated to 5189843153213185 more posts than before by droolers asking for links.

My lord is Norm a trainwreck. Whomever made the call to bring him on should be fired. This is worse than Dennis Miller on Monday Night Football.

I agree but I don't think very many people were hating on BG.

Possibly interesting issues are whether it was SO transparent to a non-amateur that Villain could have sniffed it out anyway (doubtful) or whether a similar move would ever make sense against a stronger player (doubtful).

On the Doyle QQ hand, it seemed lolwut for sure. But I think we should remember that Doyle probably has more experience playing against super-rich businessmen fish than anyone else on the planet. He may even have played with Ruffin before, who knows.

It's surprising that he would put Ruffin's range on AA or KK only, and the fold was very curious. And he didn't seem to give it much thought at all. Very strange.

Season 7 is ok. Not great, but ok.

Norm is fine. In the beggining I thought wtf but it was better later. Gabe was better but I laughed at least once.

2+2 posters are worse than ever though, good for us!

Agreed - that lineup was god awful to watch.

What was with the constant chip shuffling noise in the background? That made it even more painful.

Cool!

I wonder if it's just a matter of time before that's gone too, 'cuz most others are gone.

yeah, let's just forget that the guy tried to back-raise out of turn for less than the minimum, do you really think he plays a draw or JJ/TT that way? come on people, it was seriously THE MOST OBVIOUS SET EVER!

The reason for Doyle folding the QQ is very simple: nowadays, Doyle is not fond of playing huge pots with marginal hands (3rd best overpair). Anyone who has watched him on tv should know this.

Even if Doyle knows hes ahead (and he probably does), he knows that Ruffian has got plenty of outs. Basically, rich fish obv wants to play a huge pot, and Doyle doesn't.

3D + New Host= Jumped Shark

About 15 mins in, and this is a snoozefest. WTF @ Ruffin acting out of turn lol, and the chick...bleh.

he prob wouldn't even consider this move against most people, unless he thought the 'non-amateur' was scared money..., either way, when you pull this move w/o history you are basically saying you don't respect the guys game...