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6-person NLHE tournament, winner take all, 29 June 2007

Author: phoenixlau from United States

High Stakes Poker may be the best poker show on television, but Poker After Dark is not far behind it. The format is basically a $20,000 buy-in 6-person No-Limit Holdem tournament. What makes PAD stand out from other shows is 1) its slow blind structure; and 2) the fact that it shows almost every hand played.

First, the blind structure. Everyone starts out 100xBB deep, and the blind levels take their time to go up. What this means is that there is plenty of room to play post-flop/turn/river, especially during the early stages. Contrast this to the World Poker Tour final tables, where the short stacks are so short and the blinds rise so fast that the game degenerates into an all-in crapshoot.

Second, you get to see almost every hand. This is extremely valuable as a learning tool, since not only do you get to see how each player adjusts their strategy at each stage of play (e.g. loosening up as you get short-handed), but also because you get to experience the same thought processes as the players based on earlier hands (this guy has been raising my blind every time, I'm going to take a stand).

The only disadvantage to this is that at times, the show can get slow-paced, especially if the players are really nitty (a lot of raise and take it, no flop) or when they are not that talkative. The best episodes are definitely the ones where most of the players are world-class LAGs and/or chatterboxes.

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Late night television reaches an all time low, 28 November 2007

Author: Jon Death from United States

Out of all the crap that could be turned into a show, a major network decides to dull our minds with people playing poker in an attempt to entertain us. The shows they keep throwing at us get worse and worse with every passing season. Reality TV turned the nation into dimwits so I guess they figured they should create a reality TV show where the content itself was incredibly dull and dim.

I can see putting Vegas pool or possibly even competitive bowling on late night but Poker?? Come on man, this is an attempt to generate not only more gamblers but seduce more states into legalizing gambling based on the CLAIMED success of these types of shows. No matter what the ratings claim, I just won't buy it. The only loyal viewer demography will be made up of gambling addicts and the unemployed.

I give Poker After Dark, as well as Celebrity Poker, two thumbs down and two middle fingers way up!

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