High Stakes Preview
Season 5 of “High Stakes Poker” has already been filmed, but won’t begin airing until March1st. To whet your appetite, though, 2 different preview trailers have been released. And I’ve got to say: they look great! It seems like they got a whole new camera crew to film the show, and, with some brand new angles and a higher-definition picture, everything looks shiny and crisp and new. And the players! Check out the lineup of studs in these two clips, and try to imagine a poker game with more potential for excitement:
Holy mother of God! The call-down in the first hand is downright insane, especially given the player doing the betting. And the look on Durrrr’s face in the second clip, when the reigning World Champion calls him down with basically the nuts is just priceless. Bring on March 1st!
Update: One more preview clip has surfaced:
This looks like the first hand of the session… and it’s pretty standard. Raise the limpers with 9-high, reraise with K9s. Yup, pretty standard there. Oh my head…
Update redux: The entire first episode is up on YouTube already, courtesy of the fine folks at GSN. Enjoy!
On the last PAD it got confusing, because they kept saying “so-and-so has $x in front of them, but they bought in for $y”. I don’t like doing math when I’m trying to watch TV.
I think the Poker Den show does it best, showing both how much each person has in front of them at the time, as well as how much they are +/- for the session. The poker isn’t that great — at one point the announcers fall all over themselves in praise of… Jennifer Tilly? — but the info is at least there.
You could be right on the Doyle hand but the most interesting HUGE hand was Gus and Daniel I think.
I don’t think they show how much anyone is up or down but they do announce it occasionally if I remember correctly. I’ve seen some shows that are horrendous though and don’t count rebuys and such so its practically a useless number. That may have been Live At The Bike though where they didn’t have all the info to begin with and mostly guessed at stacks anyway.
I’m pretty sure the biggest pot ever on HSP was Doyle vs. Guy, when Doyle had AT vs Guy’s A5 and they got it all in on an A-4-3-x (or something similar) flop. Doyle had just been told that the ten-high flush he laid down was good versus Jamie Gold’s 9-high flush, and tried to tilt off $400k. Instead he wound up raking in a pot of over $800k, and the next summer’s showings of Cirque de Soleil were a bit more sparse than usual.
Of course you can’t forget the Daniel vs Gus hand on HSP.
hmmmm, I remember watching the one held out in England, can’t remember the show’s name, but involved a classic hand between Phil Ivey and Patrick Antonius (boat over boat, I believe Ivey had 99 and Antonius had A4 and hit his boat on the river). They were showing how much people were up an which people were down and by how much. Couldn’t remember if HSP did this or not . . .
Stats for cash games are notoriously hard to come by, seeing as people don’t like to talk about their poker profits/losses in public.
Also, since they don’t show every hand, any stats people would gleam from just watching the program would be inaccurate.
But, if I had to guess, I’d bet Bob Stupak to be the biggest winner in the show’s history. Take it to the bank…
any stats on who the biggest HSP money winners are?
I’m pretty sure Eastgate will lose money to most of the players at the table so I wouldn’t put a wager on that.
What is Brunson’s streak now? Something like 15-16 winning sessions on HSP? We’ll see how he fares this time around.
Well, the poker world is funny. I’ve seen some great players multitabling and grinding the .25/.50 who will not move up in stakes, while I’ve seen hideous players at 25/50. Did you see Negreanu’s hand analysis when he posted the content on PokerVT? Some idiots at 25/50 man! Negreanu comments in the video on how he hates playing limits that low because of the morons. 25/50 too low? I can’t wait for the day that I say that . . .
Honestly, I’m not saying Eastgate is a hideous player, I’m saying he needs to get better. Sit me down with Eastgate, and I’ll probably lose, or not. I’m judging this on one hand. But he showed his weakness in that hand that he’s scared of Durrr type players unless he has the absolute nuts! You can see how Dwan makes his money now. I’m not surprised if Dwan takes Eastgate for a decent sized pot later on in the show.
Want to put a friendly wager on that?
You can check out back episodes of HSP (as well as almost every other poker show ever made) at Pokertube.com. A valuable resoruce (and a great way to waste lots of time).
Cash games and tournaments, while both being essentially “poker”, are completely different games. Situations arise in one that don’t arise in the other, and vice versa. To say that one type is better than the other is to say that the citrusy taste of oranges is better than the tart taste of apples. Neither is necessarily better, just different.
Before he won the Main Event, Peter Eastgate was playing in, and beating, 25/50 online. Saying that you know .25/.50 players who are better than him is ridiculous.
Anyone know if HSP is on DVD? Would love to sit down and watch every hand being played.
Like I said, Eastgate is the worst player at that table, worrying too much about erring on the side of caution, than to think about what Mr. Dwan thought HE had.
Now I know we can see the whole cards, but looking at the video over and over again, you just get the impression from Dwan that he is convinced in his mannerisms that he’s winning the pot, and Eastgate is just calling him down cause he has less than trips.
I honestly believe cash game players are better than tournament players, because cash game players can play both styles, while tournament players have problems adjusting to high stakes cash games.
If you’re a great tournament and win the main event, you do one of two things
1. retire and live off the interest
2. retire and live off the interest while going back to your low stakes and ignoring your new found bankroll until you slowly and smoothly make the transition to higher stakes.
I think that’s the toughest thing in poker. smoothly making the transition to the higher limits. There’s always that desire to play the higher limits when you can’t afford to take a hit.
Honestly, I know a lot of .25/.50 to 2/4 NL players who are better than Eastgate at cash games.
I think because it’s Durrrr, he could have a lot more than just “the nuts or nothing”. Because of the kind of player he is, his range is not nearly that polarized. Which makes the river flat call lean to bad for me. It’s not a huge mistake, per se, but Eastgate definitely left a lot of value on the table.
I don’t particularly dislike how Eastgate played this hand. Without knowing the hand, if I was Eastgate I would think I’m way ahead of Durrr and instead of raising on the turn I’d let Durrrr bluff at it again on the river. I’d likely put the raise in on the river as well but again, you’d have to put Durrr on a 6 here specifically otherwise you’re never getting any value out of the raise. Durrr, in this hand either has the nuts or nothing so putting in a raise probably isn’t going to get you paid except for this specific situation and it would be hard to put him on the case 6 without also having the nut 65 hand.
I heard Eastgate (on a podcast I believe) say he was losing a lot playing high stakes cash games and was playing above his head and had to move down in levels. Doesn’t surprise me. At least he was smart enough to realize that and move down.
I’m saving up episodes of HSP before I start watching this season. I usually like to watch a bunch all at once.
Any posts planned for the Poker After Dark week of Nets vs Vets? I just started watching that week and only a couple episodes in. Doyle must have a dead read on Taylor Cabi as he just absolutely played with him in a couple of hands.
If someone said that I was the weakest player amongst a group that includes Durrrr, Daniel, Doyle, DB, et al., I’d take it as a compliment and laugh all the way to the bank.
Him asking if you would’ve called a raise on the river shows that he’s one of the weakest players at the table . . . honestly, I would’ve reraised on the turn there, and probably so would’ve most of the table there. I think like Kaplan says, durrrr thought his opponent had 8’s or something like that. Guaranteed someone got his BB’s and straddles reraised non-stop after that.
But durrrs face is hilarious. Not sure if he was surprised he had the 6, or if it was that he got off easy there.