thoughts on "Tilt"?

[ChadInAustin]

It seemed like they gratuitously threw around poker jargon and it was delivered quite artificially:

"I'm not trying to put you on a hand"
"That six minted me. I've got - a set!"
"It's a dead hand. I want my chips back."

And re-raising preflop with deuces!? That guy deserved to go broke, fixed game or not. Anyone notice how Madsen said that he (the mark) had "23 and change" after he had just reraised preflop to $4000...this means that we're supposed to believe that the guy turned $8000 into $27000, and so did Matador, who had bought in with a $10,000 chip. So the mark is allowed to -triple- his money and then some before they break him??

Ahh, screw it, I'm still going to watch it every week just because it has Mr Blonde in it.

[shummie]

I've been thinking more about how this portrayal of cheating in poker...

I know when people tell me that they will never play online because of the cheating, one of my canned responses is that it's easy to cheat in a live game too. This show "proves" that, so maybe more people will play online because they fear being cheating in a live game.

Make sense?

- Jason

[sfer]

Your location now sucks dude. Big step down.

On another note, I'm seriously considering getting season tickets for the Mets and reconverting now that I live nearby again.

[metsmaniac823]

Maybe 23 hundred, not thousand. Makes much more sense.

Besides, I don't even wipe my ass with $2,300. I put it in the bank. Weird.

Mets in 2005! [img]/images/graemlins/cool.gif[/img]

[Leo Bello]

I guess cheating in live games was always mroe fo a concern than online. Online is rigged has benn discussed many times and it is pointless.
As for the show... no comments.

[TimM]

Some things we can look forward to:

Raising 64s
reraising 22
Going to the river with 66 hoping to get minted
Playing 43s like a pair, because they've got a pair

In short, the games will stay the same as they were before. Carry on.

[danvh]

Your risking a patients life!

[illguitar]

Exactly...HIS FATHER IS THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY!!!

I love unintentional comedy, but to have an hours worth of over the top Playmakers style ridiculousness, is stupid. I now finally understand why the NFL hated PLaymkers so much. It's a travshamockery!

[BellyBuster7]

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now excuse me, I have to go "relieve myself"

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"Bullseye" = classic

[Token]

Rounders sucked and this sucks too. And what's with the Elvis dude?