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Celebrity Poker Showdown
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Overview
Celebrity Poker Showdown airs on Bravo,
and seems to be playing just about every night. The show features a
handful of invited A and B-list celebrities playing in $250,000 no
limit hold'em prize pool events for charity. The clueless celebrity
play is commentated by Dave Foley and Phil Gordon, and takes place
at the Palms Casino in Las Vegas. Each show lasts 2 hours, and
winners or individual events go on to compete in championships later
in the season.
Comments
Personally, this is my least favorite
poker show on television. While I'm all for helping raise money for
charity, I just hate to watch this show. It really isn't much like
an actual televised tournament. The gameplay from 9 out of 10 of the
celebrities is clueless, and it can be painful to watch for anyone
who knows anything about poker. I give some of them credit in that
they seem to have actually studied the game before embarrassing
themselves on TV, but most players are just terrible. Sometimes,
they'll actually have a celebrity pro like Ben Affleck on, but his
awful competition will usually draw out on him somehow.
The biggest shame is the waste of Phil
Gordon and Dave Foley. Phil Gordon is a highly respected poker
professional, and it must be painful for him to watch some of this
play. I'm sorry, but when I watch poker on TV I want to see some
poker being played. And Dave Foley was so great on "Kids in the
Hall" and "Newsradio", what is he doing here? And what's with the
goatee?
Score
Out of 10, I give Celebrity Poker
Showdown a 2. Don't watch this show unless you like the celebrities
for some reason and can tolerate the madness. View our interactive
Poker TV Schedule for upcoming episodes.
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