Unofficial Tilt review post...anyone else have a problem with...

[nolanfan34]

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I found it interesting that ESPN had no problem running a program that showed a 12 year old girl gambling, a strip club, and a hooker dropping to her knees in a bathroom. I’m pretty sure she was polishing something, but I don’t think it was the floor tile. Yet, the folks at ESPN were all in an uproar over the Randy Moss mock mooning celebration last week and wouldn’t show the highlight. Does anyone else think ESPN is being a little hypocritical here?

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I agree.

[nolanfan34]

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Wasn't it a flash back to show that our blonde heroine was a prodigy. I bet we see the matador crush her in the next one not that she was a roll.

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It doesn't matter. That storyline is just past the point of believeablility. Give me a break. I can maybe accept the idea that a 12-year-old could be a poker prodigy. What I can't accept, is the idea that this girl is somehow part of this game, and has $7000 in front of her. And couldn't they at least have made the 10-6 suited? Looked like almost a full table, she's a prodigy but was playing T6o all the way to the river?

Yeah, I'm nit-picking, but how hard would it be to get those parts of the story right?

For that matter, wouldn't it be just as easy to have her watching this game, and her dad loses big to the Matador and loses his house, or something like that? You'd still have motive there, and it would be way more plausible than what they're setting up.

[WDC]

I loved in that flashback scene that the matador had a 70's porn star moustache.

B the way my vote for cheesiest line was
"when this is all over I cant wait to go heads up like Creed and Rocky in III."

I got in trouble for spitting coke on the couch when I heard that one.

[Nagoo81]

I have no problem with situations and plot being 'unrealistic' ... after all, this is fiction. However, I expect at the very least that the dialogue, script, and most of all, the acting is supposed to make up for the plot and story's shortcomings.

So, if two guys pull out 2 guns in a cardroom, you're gonna tell me that everyone is gonna be very cool about it and not literally jump under the table or otherwise get the hell out of there? Nah, I'm just gonna casually wait til the situation dissapates and then YELL at them to check them at the door. COME ON.

The only scene that I enjoyed slightly was when Eddie was heads up w/ the "Wankah" when he rivered the 6-high straight. The visual effect of being able to picture what the guy had was pretty neat. But other than that... [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

...Bullseye! heheheheheheheh

[Daithi]

Cameo's by real top players, a 12 year old girl playing high-stakes backroom poker, cheating players, corrupt cops, corrupt casino heads, hookers servicing the top player, and the casino head answers to the top poker player.

"I wipe my ass with $8,000, $9,000 if I had chili."

This is entertainment people. If it was realist it would be boring. I'll be watching it next week.

[thirddan]

i was flipping back and forth between simpsons and malcolm so i only saw parts, but does it get any better than this "no string bets, bi[/b]tch," i submit that it does not... i will be watching next week...

[deathtoau]

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Does anyone feel that the show gave poker players the rap as cheaters?

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That is my biggest problem with the show. I don't give a crap about the show as a show. It was just as cheesy as I expected. My problem is that the fish are going to get the false notion that all the good poker players are cheaters and the games are rigged. They might think twice about going into the cardroom now and lose their money at Blackjack or craps rather than donating it to me.

The interview with the producers (ESPN's TILT preview special) said they were poker players and were trying to broaden the appeal of the game. I don't see how showing all the good players as cheaters and colluders will do that.

Bad form and at least pick a realistic storyline, pretty please.

[Fitz]

I was disappointed in Tilt too. It appears to be one more piece of work that concentrates on cheating and the "wrong move at the right time" side of the game. Miracle reads and big bluffs take a precedence over real solid poker which is pretty boring most of the time.

Let the newbies this program will draw see al of this. Let them think geniuses and poker prodigies play T6o and make wild moves on incredible reads. Then, seat them immediately to my right and leave us alone for a few hours.

Good luck all,

Fitz

[tpir90036]

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Your D+ is charitable.

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Ha ha ha. The more I think about it, the more I think you are right. I might have to with F+ since the blowjob scene was hilarious and a breakthrough for Disney-owned ESPN.

I still haven't heard anyone offer a guess as to why the cop would bring $20K of his money into a game when he 1) is not very good and 2) is sitting with "pros" 3) he suspects it is fixed. Nice move!!

The show would be better if the Matador was not a cheater but a slime ball with mob ties and the three main characters were just anti-heros trying to cheat the other anti-hero since they suck and got busted straight-up for all of their money.

-tpir

[MarkL444]

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I had a lot of problems with the show, but just like in Rounders they really fail to get the poker scenes right or capture the real feel of a card room.


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this was so many levels worse than rounders.