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clemon79:
[quote name=\'hmtriplecrown\' date=\'Mar 16 2004, 04:54 PM\'] As a person who sounds like he's seen a few of these poker shows, you should know that these tells, which 98% of the viewing public can't see, can possibly tell the player what the unknown card is. [/quote]
 But in a poker game, those tells exist because the players with the concealed cards have a vested interest in what that down card is. The dealer in a blackjack game, especially one such as this where they are paid the same regardless of player performance (i.e. tips are a non-issue) does not. The dealer is no more excited to see a 20 than they are to see a 16. If they are, they're a crappy dealer. And somehow I don't think the Mohegan Sun is gonna sent out their crappiest dealer to represent them on national television.

I can see there being a tell if they had to double-check a card to see if it was an ace or not. That makes sense to me, because that is not a tell that comes from caring what the hand is, like the player kept implying when he would predict (usually incorrectly) if she had a pat hand or not.

--- Quote ---Just because said player got one of 3 tells right doesn't mean it's bad card playing.
--- End quote ---
Except he was looking for tells that didn't have a reason to exist in that scenario.

clemon79:
[quote name=\'weaklink75\' date=\'Mar 16 2004, 06:37 PM\'] Yes, it was quiet, maybe a little too quiet, maybe if it was in a theater in the casino instead of on the floor it would be better.
 [/quote]
 It WAS in a theater instead of on the casino floor. That's the only way you make blackjack a spectator sport. What they should have done was encourage crowd reactions.

--- Quote ---(the one thing I do want to know is what size shoe they use--It looked to me like it was a six deck one).
--- End quote ---
At the tournament level, it's pretty likely it was a six-deck shoe. Which raises an interesting point: at some point in 30 hands with six players (dealer included), you're gonna have to reshuffle that shoe. And if those guys aren't at least running a basic count (to keep track of aces and ten-cards), they have no business being there. I have to wonder where they are asked to place the indicator (the cut card that indicates that the hand will be finished from those cards, and then a fresh six decks shuffled and loaded in), and about where in the 30 hands it comes up.

Timsterino:
[quote name=\'goongas\' date=\'Mar 16 2004, 02:22 PM\'] I was surprised how bored I was watching it.  I thought it would be more interesting. [/quote]
 That about sums up my feeling of it. I was bored and turned it off half way through.

It was not my cup of tea.

Tim :-)

ezbidder:
Don't I feel silly.  I keep recording the episodes assuming they'll be new ones.  Has there only been one episode so far?  You mean they showed it back to back on the first night repeated?  Now the second night the same episode?  

Is this a once a week show or what?

CaseyAbell:
It's once a week. GSN is splattering the reruns all over the schedule this week. But there will only be one rerun next week, when things go back to normal (plus the usual left coast replay of the prime time schedule, of course).

Oops, should have said two reruns. 11:00 pm Eastern Tuesday and 2:00 pm Eastern Saturday.

Also, maybe I should clarify what I said about the show being too quiet. I'm not a fan of, say, Daniel Negreanu doing a goofball jack-in-the-box routine every time his lady friend wins a hand (viewers of the Travel Channel's all-female poker special will know what I'm talking about). But a little applause and cheering wouldn't hurt.

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