Who Is Helped by the Poker Superstars II Format?

[PokrLikeItsProse]

The Poker Superstars Invitational II format has been criticized for reducing the game to a pre-flop all-in-fest. Obviously, this hurts the expectation of some players and, therefore, increases the expectation of other players.

The format helps players who have a better understanding of the math when it gets to the all-in stage. The format hurts players who have the edge in post-flop play, with better reads and timed aggression.

What other traits are helped or hurt by the format compared to a deeper-stacked format? Which players do you think are most helped and hindered by the format?

[Russ McGinley]

Obviously Kathy Liebert is helped. Honestly, I wonder how many people still watch this show.

[ClaytonN]

I have friends who know little about poker that enjoy watching it.

The more apt question is "How many twoplustwoers still watch this"

[ismisus]

david sklansky is certainly helped. Plus this format doesn't different much from the Party higher step 5 $5,000 buy-in spin off.

[TimTimSalabim]

I don't mind so much about the format, it's still poker. Tonight's lineup is pretty good - 4 world champions (Chan, Nguyen, Doyle, Moneymaker) and Ted Forrest.

[Dynasty]

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I have friends who know little about poker that enjoy watching it.

The more apt question is "How many twoplustwoers still watch this"

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I can't give you a good reason why I watch it, but it seems to be on my TV every Sunday night.

I guess I'm just hoping the "playoffs" will be better. When does that round begin?

[Kevmath]

8 more weeks, tonight was week 16.

FSN shows a lot of poker, the problem is it's bad poker (except for July 13 hopefully).

Kevin...

[TimTimSalabim]

*Only* 8 more episodes til they narrow it down to 16 semifinalists [img]/images/graemlins/crazy.gif[/img]. I think the reason that the pros like the format was that instead of doing one long tournament with slowly rising blinds, they do a whole bunch of quick tournaments, that way if you get really unlucky in 2 or 3 of them you're not out of the competition.

[Sponger15SB]

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I can't give you a good reason why I watch it, but it seems to be on my TV every Sunday night.

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The other day I watched a whole episode, then I watched whatever was on FSN and then it came on again and I watched a little bit of it before I beat the [censored] out of myself for watching such garbage for the second time.

[OrangeKing]

Based on tonight's episode, I think Ted Forrest could use a lesson on inflection points. [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]