Would you pay money to learn Hold Em from Vince Van Patton?

[Hauser_III]

I watched this Sunday's episode of the second-to-last preliminary round of the Ultimate Poker Challenge (am I the only one in America still watching these, by the way?), and one of the commercials was for a 3 DVD set from Vince Van Patton promising to tell you all about how to beat the pros at hold em. The commercial even included cheesy "testimonials" from Chris Moneymaker, Daniel Negraneau and Evelyn Ng, with the one from Moneymaker being the most hilarious, to the effect of "you can learn the basic concepts from these lessons, and sit down and beat the pros tonight." Based on some of the absolutely absurd comments VVP makes about hands during the WPT shows, I can't imagine that there's anything remotely useful in these DVD's.

[jojobinks]

i think my mother, who's played 10-15 hours of hold 'em tournaments, knows more about poker. what i absolutely KNOW is that she'd be more articulate in explaining it than VVP is on WPT.

i wonder if he talks about picking up a real hand, a wired pair of 3's, and the flop going bingo bango bongo with the star spangled banner going off in your head, digging the hole, laying the sticks over it. sometimes when that happens, i'm not sure what to do.

he's the worst thing about the show, followed closely behind by mike sexton. i admire sexton's poker skills, but not his ability as an analyst. they need to replace those boobs immediately.

his dvd set is about as cynical a cash in as i can imagine. i'm sorry, i thought of something more cynical: moneymaker indicating that someone could compete by following the advice of a few hours of dvd's.

[Grisgra]

You mean, again?

[brokedickrooster]

I guess my reponse is two-fold. First, no, I wouldn't imagine that there is anything REALLY useful to anyone that is already a card player. These discs, much like the WPT TV shows, are geared for the people that know nothing. The WPT show cannot be profitable by catering just to serious card players. It must pander to the lowest common denominator of viewers by creating the World Wide Wrestling Federation atmoshpere with the ridiculous characters of good and evil. Vince and Mike must lower their information level so it is understood by people that have no idea what is actually going on. There is so little good poker actually shown of TV, (Fox Sports has by FAR the best coverage) that it hardly seems possible that any intermediate card player should expect to learn anything from these shows or from any of the videos offered from them.

[otnemem]

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[italianstang]

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with the star spangled banner going off in your head

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I hate Vince Van Patten, for two reasons, because of the above quote and its truly incredible over use and because they introduce him sometimes as "Tournament Poker Guru" on WPT.

[tek]

I wouldn't watch V V P's or Hellmuth's dvd's with your eyes [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

[BarronVangorToth]

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World Wide Wrestling Federation atmoshpere with the ridiculous characters of good and evil.



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You had me until a misplaced WWE reference.

For shame.

Barron Vangor Toth
www.BarronVangorToth.com

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NT

[-Syk-]

VVP uses the same 4 catch phrases every episode. He doesn't even need to show up to the events, they can just dub in the same 4 phrases into every show.

"Wired pair"
"Real hand!"
"Ohhh, he's playing it slow setting the twigs over the hole!"
"Ohhh, showtunes going off in his head!"