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Celebrity Poker Showdown season 2
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Posted by: smak

Aha, Bravo listens to smak!!

Celebrity Poker Showdown" (twelve two-hour episodes)
Premieres Tuesday, May 27 (9-11 p.m. ET)
Season two of Bravo's newest hit will return as big as it debuted with expert poker player Phil Gordon and new host Dave Foley ("NewsRadio," "The Kids in the Hall"). Some of the celebrities who will be participating this time around include: Matthew Perry, James Woods, Sean Astin, Jennie Garth, Jeff Gordon, Dave Navarro, and Angie Dickinson. As before, each episode of "Celebrity Poker Showdown" will feature five celebrities competing against each other in a game of No Limit Texas Hold'em poker for the charity of their choice.

I wonder how they're going to come up with a final table...

10 episodes, 10 winners.

1 episode showing two tables of 5

1 episode - final table?

-smak-

Posted by: lambertman

Nah, I heard that it's two seperate 6-episode tournaments.

So looking forward to this :)

Posted by: jschuman

Kevin Pollack was a super-annoying host, so in my mind they fixed the #1 problem with the show. I'm looking forward to this.

Posted by: pmyers

Thank goodness they got rid of Pollack!

Posted by: sschwart

It sounds like they're fixing both of the things that really annoyed me about the last round... Too short (not enough showing of hands), and Kevin Pollack. Good for them!

Posted by: TiVoEdz

While we await the return of Celebrity Poker Showdown....might want to check out the Travel Channel's World Poker Tour.... it second installment of their "Hollywood Home Game" starts airing this Sunday (Apr 11th)... the table includes:

Lou Diamond Phillips, Fred Willard, Lolita Davidovich, Norm McDonald, Richard Karn, and Camryn Manheim

Posted by: Video-Idiot

Ok, so all of us are poker fans. Have you signed up for the Vegas convention? Might as well play the game for real, as opposed to watching famous rich people play for charity. :up:

Posted by: pmyers

While I'm not going to the Vegas trip, I know that they have been talking about getting some games going in the "Weekly wednesday poker" thread in the HH. That thread is really about all things that are poker. Check it out.

Posted by: YCantAngieRead

I need to take some time to read that thread. It'd be interesting to play against people I sort of know, as opposed to total strangers, like I usually do online.

Glad to hear Pollack is out. Sometimes, I wonder if producers read the message boards related to their shows... Well, I know one producer that does, but in general, that is. A lot of them seem to really respond to public opinion and switch things up.

And kudos for bringing Phil Gordon back. Hopefully he'll drink a little more than last year and will be as funny as he was in the final table in the last season. He's a funny guy, in a very understated way.

Posted by: pmyers

Here is a direct link to that thread: http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-v...20&pagenumber=1

Posted by: jwjody

I think I read somewhere that Josh Molina and Aarokin Sorkin were going to be in this one. I also read that Josh is a cardshark. Doesn't necessarily mean much. Hank Azaria was suppose to be also.

J

Posted by: canonelan2

If i recall correctly, Josh Molina was a producer on the last one.

Posted by: smak

I think it was Molilna's idea and production company. Hard to believe it he wouldn't be producting again.

-smak-

Posted by: drumorgan

I'm two degrees from Kevin Pollack. What was the problem with him? Clearly I missed something.

Posted by: pmyers

I just thought he was boring as heck and didn't really care for his "persona".

Posted by: scooterboy

I like Pollack as a comedian and actor. But he just isn't right for the host of a Poker show. It just didn't work. Hopefully Dave Foley will be low-key and let Phil Gordon do most of the talking.

Posted by: Bananfish

quote:
Originally posted by drumorgan
I'm two degrees from Kevin Pollack. What was the problem with him? Clearly I missed something.

It seems like the producers/network couldn't decide for the first season whether the show was a celebrity entertainment show that happened to have poker or a poker show that happened to have celebrities. Having Pollack as the host was a play at the celebrity entertainment show aspect.

But the show works so much better as a poker show, which became obvious in the final episode. The hour-long format of the final epidose allowed Phil Gordon to actually provide some cogent poker analysis and show he had a personality. That just underscored just how expendable Pollack's forced impersonations were.

The format of Pollack being the main talker with Gordon throwing in the odd comment here didn't work in a half-hour format, and certainly wouldn't work in a two-hour format. I suspect that Gordon and Foley will fall into a pattern more along the lines of Mike Sexton and Vince Van Patten on World Poker Tour ... Gordon providing the play-by-play and Foley throwing in the "average viewer's" comments (hopefully with some comedic effect). I don't think there's any reason that Pollack couldn't have been effective in that role, but it probably would have been harder to change his role than to simply have a new guy step into the newly defined role.

Posted by: pmyers

So each show is now 2 hours? Awesome!

Posted by: Video-Idiot

2 Hours! Rats, I can't stay up that late. :o

Posted by: loubob57

quote:
Originally posted by Video-Idiot
2 Hours! Rats, I can't stay up that late. :o

That's why you have a TiVo!!! :eek:

Posted by: Video-Idiot

quote:
Originally posted by loubob57
That's why you have a TiVo!!! :eek:

Oh, that's why. I just thought it was a big door stop. :D

Posted by: ElVee

Speaking of Poker and Pollack, does anyone remember the Comedy Central three-part poker show called 'The Real Deal' about 5 years ago?

Five comedians sitting around playing poker, drinking, smoking, telling jokes. It was pretty funny.

I vaguely remember Kevin Pollack, Robert Wuhl, Allan Havey and two guys named John.