If you love ring games half as much as I do I'd give it a watch. The show films professional poker players playing in a high stakes no limit Texas Hold'em cash game.
It's immensely entertaining, and it's the best poker TV show out there by a long shot. What I love about HSP is the fact that it's a real game of poker. It's not a fabricated tournament where players just put on a performance for the cameras — the players on HSP genuinely care about the money in front of them, which makes for a fantastic showcase of talent. Here a few big-name poker players that are renowned for their ability and winnings in cash games. I'm sure you'll recognize a few of them:.
Still, they're both cash games, so it's all good. I can't give a well-rounded strategy on how to beat online poker cash games in a few short sentences, but I can throw some essential tips in your direction.
After this it's all about playing your socks off and learning as much strategy as you can. My strategy articles and strategy videos are decent places to start. After that, look in to paid training — it's worth it.
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App Store Preview. Screenshots iPhone iPad. Description The all new live show poker app. Dec 16, Version 2. Ratings and Reviews. App Privacy. Size Category Games. There are always things that can be improved on, but overall it is one of the best poker shows these days and, most importantly, it happens throughout the year. With televised cash games really lacking since High Stakes Poker ceased production, The Big Game was quite refreshing.
The entire idea behind the show was quite an interesting one as it would pitch one online qualifier against five hardcore pros, giving him or her a chance to win big. The Big Game is not only entertaining to watch but it also had some very touching episodes. While we all love to see professionals play, there is a part in each one of us that roots for the underdog. However, some of them managed to win really decent amounts which, no doubt, helped them a lot in their everyday lives.
The idea of pitching a long-shot amateur against experienced professionals, giving them a chance to win significant monetary amounts is a recipe for success and The Big Game was hugely popular among the fans. The Big Game gets a strong 8 out of What makes a show little weird is that loose cannons who win a big hand early on hardly have any motivation to try and play against the people who clearly outclass them.
The Shark Cage is another tournament format show with an interesting mix of professional players, celebrities, and one online qualifier per show. The show consists of series of six-handed sit and go tournaments, with winner from each individual tournament advancing to the finals. Whenever someone pulled a successful bluff on the river, he or she would send their opponent to the cage, where he would have to miss an entire round of play.
Of course, if the bluff gets called, the bluffer takes his place in the cage. The idea of the show is not that bad, although it can be kind of underwhelming for the qualifiers who can be done with their adventure on a simple bad beat.
But, more importantly, the structure of the tournaments was very fast and it would quickly turn into a crap shoot. It is clear that The Shark Cage was produced with the idea of picking up some traction with the casual viewers who are not necessarily that interested in poker alone. It is hard to blame PokerStars for this attempt, as attracting fresh blood is always a good thing, but for the players and serious fans it can be a bit annoying.
It is now sponsored by online poker giant Poker. The Rio bought the rights to the event and they built a massive poker room to accommodate the huge number of entrants in The WSOP consists of many events held over several weeks with different poker variations. They would show a new episode or two each week, which typically will cover each of the preliminary events.
The Main Event , however, takes up several weeks. Lately, however, the interest for televised poker has been declining, and the coverage is not as strong as it used to be.
They do a nice job of balancing coverage of side tables and make it interesting by returning to some of the real characters at the event.
The announcers are humorous, knowledgeable, and poignant. The production is also top-notch with excellent lighting, video quality, and just the right amount of background insight into the lives of the players. Along with High Stakes Poker this is one of my favorite poker shows on TV from an entertainment standpoint. In terms of significance to the poker world no one can touch World Series of Poker. High-Stakes Poker began airing in early with an idea unique to the TV poker world: air the biggest cash games in the world instead of big tournaments.
Featured in a private room at the Golden Nugget in Downtown Las Vegas, the show films some of the top professional poker players and some wealthy amateurs playing for real cash. Each player buys in with his or her own money, with virtually no maximum limit. Probably for dramatic television effect, players can even bring stacks of cash to use along with their chips. Lakers owner Jerry Buss, and a wealthy local physician whose name is currently escaping me.
I always find unique sounds to be extremely entertaining and I think that Kaplan has an interesting voice combined with a nice touch of humorous sarcasm. Unfortunately, this groundbreaking innovation came at an awkward moment in Poker TV history, as Poker TV in Europe was grinding to a halt, and the US was only televising a one-hour synopsis of the World Series of Poker tournaments.
In Europe at large, Poker TV can be found on Sky Sports as well as The Poker Channel and Pokerzone, two free-to-air channels that were created during the big poker boom in the mids. Poker After Dark offers viewers a look into the evolution of a single poker table over the course of a week and has minimal commentary so that spectators can hear and assess table talk between the players.
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