HSP season 5

BobSloane

Its here for those interested

http://www.youtube.com/user/GSNVideos

dsab

Saw it last night and thought it was very dull.

They showed too few hands and there was far too much chatter on the table for my liking. And oh my god do some of the new faces annoy me.

And if Dwan would finally shut up and not comment on everything I might even stop being annoyed by him.

All in all very disappointing start to the season, IMO.

eoghan104

Yeh I was a bit dissapointed myself, I was really looking forward to it!! Im sure it will improve tho its a great show. I see Dario Minieri is going to be on it, should be interesting.

I hate that Durr fella with a fiery passion that burns deep in my soul! Hes such a little weird geek. Hes creepy.....

ocallagh

Thought Eastgate's play with A6 was fine. Dwan seems like a bit of a cunt to me.

aya14

ocallagh wrote: »

Thought Eastgate's play with A6 was fine. Dwan seems like a bit of a cunt to me.

yeah he does seem like a cnut i think he was tryin to make Eastgate feel inferior.
fwiw imo eastgate played the well if he plays back, durrrr only stays involved with a hand that beats him

Tight Ted

aya14 wrote: »

yeah he does seem like a cnut i think he was tryin to make Eastgate feel inferior.
fwiw imo eastgate played the well if he plays back, durrrr only stays involved with a hand that beats him

Yeah he played it fine. There's a hell of a lot of needling going on. A lot of it to get Durrrr out of his comfort zone and to get Zig to loosen up.

On that a6 hand it particularly annoyed me how Negranu started needling Eastgate when the hand had nothing got to do with him, seems like a Durrrr nuthugger to me.

newbie2

Is Tom Dwan a ladyboy?

Gholimoli

ocallagh wrote: »

Thought Eastgate's play with A6 was fine. Dwan seems like a bit of a cunt to me.

nah i think he should have raised the turn.
Durrr is aware of his image and there is no way he would have folded to a raise.
there are alot of other 6's that Durrr could have had that Eastgate was ahead of.

singee88

i really hate that tom dwan:mad::mad::mad: daniel negraneu all the way

Hectorjelly

The A6 hand was not played well at all, he had such a strong hand on the river. Its not like a 200nl hand between two tags (in which case it would be fine) Durrr would be used to people value check raising marginal hands on the river.

I agree it was pretty dull.

DrJFF

Hectorjelly wrote: »

The A6 hand was not played well at all, he had such a strong hand on the river. Its not like a 200nl hand between two tags (in which case it would be fine) Durrr would be used to people value check raising marginal hands on the river.

I agree it was pretty dull.

yeah i agree totally wit you about the A6 hand, eastgate is defo out of his dept and comfort level, he was commentating on ept live and admitted he gets owned at 200/400 but keeps playing, he also got pretty owned in the european cash game, he is a good player tho but better at tournaments


i thought that they are right to comment on durrrs slowness(doyle said it to howard lederer on PAD too before) cos it can be deemed as angle shooting, you saw ziggy asking did you check which breaths weakness etc
bobby baldwin nearly banned him from bobby's room too because of it

Gubbo

DrJFF wrote: »

y
bobby baldwin nearly banned him from bobby's room too because of it

Who nearly got banned? Doyle for asking to hurry up, Dwan for playing slow or Ziigmund for asking things out of turn?

DrJFF

Gubbo wrote: »

Who nearly got banned? Doyle for asking to hurry up, Dwan for playing slow or Ziigmund for asking things out of turn?

dwan for angle shooting

phantom_lord

dwan for doing subtle checks.

DrJFF

phantom_lord wrote: »

dwan for doing subtle checks.

which could be interpreted as angle shooting

Lafortezza

Benyamine looked terrifed in any hands he played.

El Stuntman

lafortezza wrote: »

Benyamine looked terrifed in any hands he played.

didn't look well either imo

keane2097

I didn't think it was a bad show to be fair - I think we're going to have a problem this year though in that most of the interesting hands are going to involve durrr and so most of the hands we see are going to be slooooooooow so we'll undoubtedly get less hands per episode than other seasons.

I wish they'd dump Eli Elezra - he's such a clown...

El Stuntman

keane2097 wrote: »

I wish they'd dump Eli Elezra - he's such a clown...

but he's so happy all the time!

aya14

keane2097 wrote: »

I didn't think it was a bad show to be fair - I think we're going to have a problem this year though in that most of the interesting hands are going to involve durrr and so most of the hands we see are going to be slooooooooow so we'll undoubtedly get less hands per episode than other seasons.

I wish they'd dump Eli Elezra - he's such a clown...

That clown was +3million in live games last year

Hank Scorpio

any sign of sam farha on the show? Havent seen it yet

Hank Scorpio

lafortezza wrote: »

Benyamine looked terrifed in any hands he played.

Its hard to believe was a semi(professional) tennis player, he has just ballooned up.

Fair play to him for getting that blondie as his wife! Cant remember her name

keane2097

aya14 wrote: »

That clown was +3million in live games last year

Phil Hellmuth has 11 bracelets - does that make him impervious to accusations of being a clown too?

keane2097

nuxxx wrote: »

Fair play to him for getting that blondie as his wife! Cant remember her name

Something Benyamine I think...

aya14

keane2097 wrote: »

Phil Hellmuth has 11 bracelets - does that make him impervious to accusations of being a clown too?

now there's a clown










*point duly noted

keane2097

El Stuntman wrote: »

but he's so happy all the time!

[X] Painted on smile
[X] Is a clown

DeadMoney

I agree that Eastgate definitely looks like he is out of his comfort zone. He played the A6 hand like a standard 100nl hand would play out. I don't know why players who win the wsop main event seem to jump in to the highest and toughest games in the world just because they are now "rolled".
I believe Eastgate was a mid stakes online player before the wsop. Winning $9million or not, you don't just jump from winner at 400nl to nosebleed stakes reg. Then again, fcuk it, he's young and rich so he can do what he likes. I'd happily watch Jamie Gold donk off all of his winnings in high stakes games but Eastgate seems like a nice chap so hope he doesn't end up donating too much of it to the likes of Durrrr or PA.

Ste05

DeadMoney wrote: »

but Eastgate seems like a nice chap so hope he doesn't end up donating too much of it to the likes of Durrrr or PA.

I assumed Eastgate was only playing to keep his profile high for his sponsors, but he certainly is way out of his depth. Although Durrr, PA and Benyamine are on a different level to the rest of the table. So he's probably not all that worse then Negreanu, Elezra, Doyle, Barry etc. etc. Ziigy prob falls between the 2 sets of players IMO, AFAIK his specialist game is PLO more so then NLHE. I really wish he'd loosen up hopefully something will tilt him later and he'll do some of his batsh1t crazy plays.

zuutroy

Eastgate was one of the biggest winners on Prima in the HSNL games before he won the WSOP, so I don't think he's anything near out of his depth at that table and even if he wasn't, there's very few people who if they won the ME would turn down a seat on HSP imo.

El Stuntman

zuutroy wrote: »

Eastgate was one of the biggest winners on Prima in the HSNL games before he won the WSOP, so I don't think he's anything near out of his depth at that table and even if he wasn't, there's very few people who if they won the ME would turn down a seat on HSP imo.

I would!

what's in it for you, seriously?

zuutroy

El Stuntman wrote: »

I would!

what's in it for you, seriously?

I dunno, I think it would be an enjoyable experience to play with a mix of poker legends and amazing players and be on a TV poker show. Even if you were like -10ptbb/100 (unlikely) your expectation would be no worse than -$50k for the entire filming which is a pretty small drop in a $9m ocean.