Nicky P and Koon have played but people called them nerds/nits

Wich they indeed are. Horrible for tv poker.

That’s correct

It is hard to to put together lineups so what was accomplished for episodes 1-6 was basically perfect

Agree on both of these statements.

If I ever see Koon on a TV poker line up now then im not watching. First 6 eps of this current HSP season were incredible.

Didn't realize I had missed a few episodes .. Stanley looks way less comfortable in this setting than at Hustler for some reason. Maybe he had some other things going on .. but he did perk up after getting some cards, so maybe he's just staying out of the way when not involved.

The new guy ran so bad but yet didn't show too much emotion .. I don't care if he says he doesn't play a lot, he has played a lot or just doesn't know the severity of the beats he's taken. Snapping off Robl with 2nd pair was great, until the River.

Amazing how anyone pays off Bob .. there's just zero bluffs in his game. And then he folds a few spots where most anyone else would get into trouble or at least see the next card. GL

Did that guy who owned a million casinos go broke? Where'd he go?

Why would they want any of the high roller bots in their game?

He punted around 500K or so in one of first six episodes

No Bots .. but maybe the likes of Brewer, Perry or Soverel could show a little personality. I know that Perry went through some sort of personal 'transformation' .. which probably coincided with a huge drop in bitcoin!

I think these were shot way back in Dec/Jan and Persson was very active in the scene during that time between NGNF/HSP/HCL .. and yes, he went broke earlier in the HSP season at least once.

Obv someone like Jungleman would be a huge draw to these shows, but he's been 'working' Texas and HCL.

I'd love to know some of the politics involved with setting up these games .. You've think Seiver and Lamb would be more in the mix as I believe they both live in Vegas. But even during the WSOP those guys seem to stick to 'private' cash games since they can make hay there .. no one wants to possibly get run over out in the open I guess.

I've heard that NP is a drinker and 'entertaining' in games but he definitely was a stiff before .. but Galfond was as well and I think he'd be 'fine' now in his own way. Koon is just too much of a killer, but he's no where near Ivey's table presence when it comes a tank-call down spot.

I think it'd be a huge couple of episodes if they could get Foxen(s) on there, but IMO they both lose a lot of their tournament edge when someone can just say 'F-it' and reload if they're wrong. That's really the case for all the tournament Regs .. being the fear of busting 'should' be eliminated in a cash setting. Perhaps these games are too big for them?

If you watch Brad Owen I see that Matt Moore?, Justin Young and Art? have taken over 'Table 1' at Aria where a lot of the JRB games took place in 'Ivey's Room' .. any of those guys want to play HSP?

I think that stream games have gotten so big that we've lost touch with the fact that (mostly) no matter the stakes this is real money to these Players and the impact of wins and losses have the same emotional effect. But we want to see commas and zeros on the chips, eh?

IMO the poker stream world lost a huge draw in the J4 hand and now he's off married with child traveling the world. No one was making Ivey/Dwan type reads and plays like Garret was .. and you see even he got torched on HSP the first time around.

Might be some spice with the new lineup .. GL

Brewer did well in terms of being personable at the last Triton cash game series I think. Deserves a chance in other high stakes games. Koon as always was boring, no clue at all why he out of all people manages to get invites to some of these games.

+1 Nice job by Brewer in those games.

Found the story about Rob Yong's business meeting with Bobby Baldwin quite interesting on the latest episode. Being a smoker and being alive and well in your 70s is running good for sure. Degens always gonna be a degen at heart.

They should've just done a short 6-episode season rather than release these past few episodes with terrible lineups and lots of ~100k stacks.

Is there anywhere you can watch HSP aside from PokerGO?

If there's one thing about PokerGo it's that they protect their 'property'. So I'm guessing that finding HSP anywhere else is a fluke .. and wouldn't be available very long if it's on a well known platform.

You should be able to get it for around $80 with a discount code for a year. Then just cancel and re-up a week later instead of auto-renewing.

I've not tried to look, but I would assume that some, if not all, of anything that has been streamed on YouTube is still there to look at .. but HSP is not a YT event!



Am I watching out of order? Only one episode with Galfond?

The one I just watched was above average for sure with Chang moving chips and seeing the slight bit of emotion by one of the new Players about just being invited to play on the show. I don't really find it entertaining to see Tilly blast off/get coolered but I think we all have had a session or 'five' where we just couldn't do anything right. And then to see Rick donk off all of her chips to Steven was a gut punch. Yes, maybe they have some history off camera, but Steven NEVER has a bluff in that spot the way the hand played out. It just seemed that someone told Rick to carry the entertainment load and he took it a bit too far. GL

Looking forward to the next episode since it seems likely that both Tilly and Rick are tilted. Rick is pretty insane is his usual state, so I can only imagine what's next. Tilly is kind of annoying TBH.

The guy who got all emotional.. kind of weird it's not like he won an Oscar or anything, but hey we're all human.

Also not sure who decided that Nick Schulman should replace Gabe Kaplan, but great decision. Love Nick's commentary. He understands the game well and he's got a great personality.

JRB and Robl have some good banter that's entertaining.

One last thought about Rick. How in the world is this guy a winning player? He's a complete maniac! Does he mostly play with rich whales in home games? The guy is an enigma. And I love how fast he plays.

Who gave Lynne 100K?
This episode is VERY loud with relentless cackling from her, Airball, and Doug. Just a 60 minute laugh track

Best line was when Lynne said she got a job, and Rob asked if she started an Onlyfans.

Yeah it was a little loud but overall still a good episode.

Airball stacking Berkey and just grabbing his chips was an awkward funny moment

I’d already seen that whole hand, I guess they posted it months and months ago when the Airball Berkey HU thing was going on?

Ah so it was a reason why the got into feud in first place?

Anyways even if you knew the outcome it was good TV

No, they were already feuding. They showed the Twitter clip of Berkey asking Airball to fight, and them standing up in Bobby's Room on the HSP episode

Table was very awkward because Doug and Air vs. Berkey

Yeah he was sitting there like a cigar store indian

They already showed this entire 8 hour stream over half a year ago free on YouTube. These episodes must be the condensed highlights of that stream.

its less about showing personality and more about having personality