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They showed some clown that was suppose to represent a hardcore internet player that made his way to the WSOP.

I can only say that I will never tell anyone that I play online after that, how embarrassing... he made us all look like bizarre freaks...

I say we boycott this show

One Street at a Time
wdbaker Denver, Co

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One table per monitor is SO uncool.

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Beware the Clicking Mouse Tell

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It's a TV show, Gomer. Not a documentary on internet poker players.

Get over it.

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I am a month ahead of you.

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Yeah, I suppose all those wannabe or just thinking about being a poker player types will get goose bumps and run to the computer so they can sign up to be like him...

On the other hand, maybe they will run to the computer if they think we are all that goofy, because they are sure they can beat any clown like that...

Maybe two sides to this coin...

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One Street at a Time
wdbaker Denver, Co

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I thought Tilt was Michael Moore's intense look at the world of poker.

What else haven't you people been telling me.

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I've never seen the show. I guess I'm lucky.

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That was hilarious.

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I started and quit watching the show with the episode that had bowling in it. Num-nuts picks up the 7-10 spit (yea and right) and his friend says, "lucky shot"...he says, "the losers always call it luck" -- WHAT TOTAL RETARDED STUPID BULL....

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I loved how he had 3 whole computers to show 3 online tables. I actually laughed out loud at the play at the supposed Poker Championship. I wonder how many "internet whiz kids" that episode will bring to the tables.

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It wasn't just one table per monitor, it was one table per COMPUTER!!!

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I love the show and you all keep watching it.

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The river should have brought a 9 and knocked out Eddie.

That's a plot twist!

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That part of the show was hilarious.

When the kid points at his monitor and says "Haha I just bluffed you for half your stack" I was laughing pretty hard. Total Napolean Dynamite style with that one.

People who truly are pissed off at this show really need to lighten up.

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I've met a lot of "internet players" and I think the portrayal was accurate for about 50% of them.

-Michael

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I agree, he looked a lot like half the pics i have seen posted here..... (not that i'm especially cool or anything)... and I just ordered 3 2001fp's so I can start 3-tabling too... see you at WSOP!!!

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I started and quit watching the show with the episode that had bowling in it. Num-nuts picks up the 7-10 spit (yea and right) and his friend says, "lucky shot"...he says, "the losers always call it luck" -- WHAT TOTAL RETARDED STUPID BULL....

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I've made the 7-10 two (three?) times. Now I must watch the show to see how bad it is.

And, yes, picking up the 7-10 IS luck.

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I absolutely hate watching this show, and yet every week I watch it.

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it was awesome.

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Now I want to watch this episode just to see this! I think I'd lmao. [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

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Have you seen a TV show or movie that has realistically shown what is on a computer screen? Most of the time, the typing covers 1/4 of the screen. How do you expect them to clearly show multiple tables on one screen and not use a legitimate poker room's software.

Kevin...

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Thank you shant for your honest comment.

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Have you noticed the extreme lack of value bets in this show....Especially last nights episode.

And stack management, I have JJ, K on board and push all in early in a tournament....

But then again, it's entertainment, not a documentary on how to play poker.

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The replay was on one of the TV's at a bar I was at last night with the closed-captioning.

The kid was all jittery and I noticed he had 3 different computers (with 3 seperate mouses...or mice??) for his tables.


In the little interview with him he claimed to do "2000 or even 3000 hands PER WEEK!" (if I read the captioning
correctly).

I informed my girlfriend that this is roughly the equivilent of claiming to be a big drinker and then bragging about having 2 or maybe even 3 whole beers in a single night.

I couldn't stop laughing.

She made the observation that the internet-kid needed some make-up BAD.


I want to say that the little temper-tamtrum when he lost to Eddie's higher 2-pair was unrealistic....but it seems they got that part all too correct.


Seidel must be pretty freaking embarassed to be a part of this thing.

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2 things pissed me off more:

1. with 3 diamonds on the board and top 2 pair, eddie made no attempt to protect his hand. I don't know NL but slowplaying there seems incredibly stupid
2. some guy called off all his chips with JJ on a Kxy board

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I think the whole show is embarrasing....every freaking episode that I have watched that is just too weird. The whole concept is too weird...best poker player in town is mobbed up, runs casino, kills people. When does he have time to play? Why don't they just whack him if they want to get even. It's hardly about poker at all.

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Yeah.
I've wondered this as well.
Can't Miami and Clark just get a gun?


Why did Nickel put down $8k (which was obviously meaningful to him) to play in a game where he knew his brother was cheated?


do they really think that Lowball is just going to say "oh well...I got fired. too bad" and then run-away?


Do you really need 3 computers to play on 3 different computers?


does a multi-millionaire champion poker-player need any other kind of advantages?


If the World Poker Championships are held at the Colorado each year and is televised why are they a bunch of cheating punks who can't get anybody worthwhile to play there?


Is Eric Seidel getting phone-calls from his friends congratulating him on his splendid acting performance?
Incredibly, the brief cameo's by the actual players is probably the best acting and most realistic aspects of the show.



The alternate reality of this universe is just too freaking weird.


Also - They haven't been promoting this show nearly as much lately. I think ESPN is kinda giving up on it just because it's so idiotic. Don't know what the ratings are for it though....but I will be surprised if they actually renew it for a 2nd season.

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It wasn't just one table per monitor, it was one table per COMPUTER!!!

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I know everyone loves to slam this show for any reason, but the purpose of having 3 seperate monitors in this scene is so that the 98% of the audience that doesn't read 2+2 or play online can see that online you can play multiple games...

That scene with a 2001FP and 4 tables would have been visually boring and would have lost the audience.

Lighten up guys, it's a fun show.

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You can't please the internet.

I like the show.

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I believe last year's WSOP coverage showed Fischman playing 4 tables at UB on some kind of monitor that had 1600x1200.

I doubt it was that tough for the audience to figure out what was going on.


The show is ridiculous.


It's like doing a dramatic TV show on a baseball team where the short-stop throws left-handed and the star-pitcher is only good because he has "in's" with the umpires and throws nothing but spit-balls.

Non-baseball people might not know much about the mistakes or how unrealsitic it is....but that doesn't excuse the people writing it for making a really stupid show.


When the movie The Scout had Brendan Fraser striking-out 27 consecutive batters in his major-league debut (in the world-series no less) I complained about how incredibly stupid that movie was too (as did just about everyone else who saw it).



However...in defense of those who keep saying "it's a TV show, lighten-up" I have been trying to find any non-poker players for their thoughts on the show (and whether they think it's as bad as I think it is) but unfortunately I can't find any.

Friend of mine who watches a lot of sports (and ESPN obviously) and knows nothing about poker basically has the attitude of "why the f'ck is ESPN doing a TV show about poker?"


I'm curious if there's much talk at the B&M tables about the show and whether the typical LAG drunken-fish actually likes it.

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Doyle Brunson too. It would have been easy to do this better than with 3 mice and 3 monitors for 3 tables.

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I saw some guy do that today at the Party 1000 No Limit table and he was limp reraised preflop to boot.

cjx

Edit, some guy just did it again at a $5+1 tourney I'm playing at work.

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If you watch the show as a comedy, not an informational show, its just freaking hilarious.

You know how to play texas FOLD'EM!!
etc etc
i laugh my ass off at that show

You dont watch family guy and think to yourself "omg a baby cant talk and engineer laser rifles! He doesnt even have tools!! What are these writers thinking? And wtf is that dog talking for" Its all for laughs...just like tilt.

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I wonder how dectectives feel about CSI, or cops and attorneys feel about law and order or the practice, or how doctors feel about ER or House......


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I can only say that I will never tell anyone that I play online after that, how embarrassing... he made us all look like bizarre freaks...

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I saw you drop the pretentious, smug, and overly-sensitive attitude. Relax, have a kittle fun and don't take yourself or your occupation/hobby so seriously. Its a f'ing TV show and you getting so caught up in the TV melodrama that you had to post about makes you look like an uber tool. If you dont like it, don't watch it.

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Family guy is intended to be a farce and is intended to be funny.

Tilt is intended to a be a somewhat realistic portrayal of high-stakes poker.


If you watched Law and Order and then in the middle of an opening-statement Sam Waterston decided to put panty-hose on his head and leap around the room singing "I'm a little tea-cup" then I don't think the excuse "hey, it's a TV show. Real-life is too boring to show on TV so they had to spice it up a bit" would be appropriate.



I agree with the general idea of watching Tilt for it's unintended comedic value because it is SOOOO bad.

but comparing the realisticness of Tilt to Family guy isn't appropriate.


However...if Tilt DID have a talking dog and a baby with laser-rifles it would probably be more realistic than it is now and it would REALLY rock.

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I know everyone loves to slam this show for any reason, but the purpose of having 3 seperate monitors in this scene is so that the 98% of the audience that doesn't read 2+2 or play online can see that online you can play multiple games...

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This reminds me of a few years back when I went to see "Swordfish" (the one where Halle Barrie is sunbathing topless) with a buddy of mine. Every time someone was hacking and IP addresses were appearing on his monitor, my buddy would sigh heavily. After the movie, I asked him what was upsetting him during the movie. He replied curtly, "The IP's were impossible. The first octet was always 300, and you can't have an octet over 255."

He works in network security, and this really upset him.

The other 99.99999% of the world wouldn't have noticed this glaring error...but that part totally ruined the movie for him, I'm sure of it. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

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Wow.......are you guys missing the point of this show. It's a show based around cards. It's not an instructional video. If you lighten up and stop nit picking every detail, you'd see it's a good show.

I thought the receptionist was going to get banged. She turns out to be FBI. Good stuff. The J2 showdown was totally unexpected.

I thought Rocky was an awesome movie despite the fact that what they were doing didn't even resemble boxing.

The Color of Money was a good movie despite the fact that some of the pool scenes were ridiculous.

Lighten up and use some imagination.

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I suspect most cops and lawyers appreciate the reasonably realistic portrayal of Law and Order...although I haven't asked any cops or lawyers lately.


My GF is a nurse at a hospital and she LOVES the show ER.
She says that some of the situations are a bit crazy and TV'ed up but, for the most part, she finds it to be fairly realsitic.
(note - she just works on a regular floor of the hospital...not in the ER room because it's just too freaking hectic).



A show doesn't have to be completely accurate to be somewhat realistic.

Tilt is not even borderline accurate and is completely unrealistic.