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View Poll Results: Do you miss watching Celebrity Poker Showdown | |
Yes I miss watching it
|    | 18 | 51.43% | |
Yes (but I'll never admit it)
|    | 9 | 25.71% | |
Yes, missed it every chance I had
|    | 6 | 17.14% | |
No, less poker on TV is a good thing
|    | 2 | 5.71% |
02-13-2008, 06:38 PM
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Anyone else miss watching these donkeys play?
Hellmuth ran that show into the ground sort of like him driving that car.
It wasn't my favorite poker show but it beat about 80% of the non-poker shows out there. |
02-13-2008, 06:49 PM
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I miss the commentary more than anything. Pretty solid advice from Phil Gordon...especially for a noob like me.
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02-13-2008, 08:05 PM
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I do miss it, pre Hellmuth, and I have no problem admitting it. I agree with my friend links - the Gordon commentary was excellent, and he had a very nice chemistry with Foley. I also thought in general, the show had a lot of entertainment value. But Hellmuth was absolutely the worst choice to replace PG. I couldn't even watch through that whole season. |
02-13-2008, 08:28 PM
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I miss it and I think you guys are giving Phil H. way too much credit for being able to ruin the show. I think that it ran it's course like many other poker shows have done and Gordon got out while the getting was good. In my opinion, the Brat didn't have a chance to ruin it. He barely got his feet wet.
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02-13-2008, 08:29 PM
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Agreed. It was fun and a guilty pleasure with Gordon, but Hellmuth killed it for me. I think I watched it once with him and lost interest after that.
That's television for you! |
02-13-2008, 08:45 PM
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Originally Posted by AlbinoDragon  Agreed. It was fun and a guilty pleasure with Gordon, but Hellmuth killed it for me. I think I watched it once with him and lost interest after that.
That's television for you! | ack, this echos my sentiments to a tee.
sounds like most of felt about the same, guilty pleasure, PH made it less pleasurable. |
02-14-2008, 02:05 AM
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Well, I get to see it here in the UK. Maybe they are re runs, but that's ok, because I didn't get to see much of this program when in the states, so it's new for me. |
02-14-2008, 01:42 PM
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Originally Posted by links_slayer I miss the commentary more than anything. Pretty solid advice from Phil Gordon...especially for a noob like me. | I agree. I was watching when I was real new into poker so I learned a lot from Gordon, and a lot what not to do from the players.
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02-14-2008, 02:52 PM
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i didn't finish watching the first hellmuth episode. he was that bad.
it was the first poker show i ever saw...and gordon was awesome. the idea, of 6 crappy players going at it with gordon giving out very basic, sound, tag advice, was pure gold b/c it mirrored what we were all going through at our home games... plus good ABC advice for how to beat it.
i agree it somewhat ran it's course (mostly b/c i learned how to play and didn't need gordon telling me that top pair is pretty strong), but i gave it another shot when they shook things up and wow hellmuth was bad. |
02-14-2008, 04:47 PM
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I didnt mind the show.
Although I never saw the ones with Phil Helmuth. |
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