Pro-Am Equalizer

[lwestatbus]

Our TV program listing shows four hours (in two 2-hour episodes) of a show called "Pro-am Equalizer from Las Vegas" tonight (Sunday, Jan 21st) starting at 6:00 PM EST on ESPN.

Has anyone heard of this?

[lwestatbus]

This wasn't horrible. Not sure of the entire format but it seems to be a series of SnG tables where the winner gets a seat at a "final table" played later. Each of the preliminary tables has a mix of poker pros and celebrity amateurs and the "Equalizer" part is that the celebrity amateurs get 1.5 times the starting chips of the pros.

Pretty good collection of pros for the two episodes I watched.

I really liked Phil Gordon's commentary. I learn a LOT from an informed commentator when they get into the reasoning behind their comments on play.

There was some discussion of Jennifer Tilly being classified as an amateur.

[golddog]

"not horrible" is a pretty good description. Some of the celebrities were clearly novices, but on the couple I saw, mostly they knew at least the fundamentals of play if not detailed strategy.

I agree that Gordon's comments were interesting. Could've been a bit more in-depth, but generally he did a decent job of explaining why he felt that a move was good or bad (i.e., "I would've put in a bigger/smaller raise/checked/whatever because...)

I believe the structure was 150K for amateurs, 100K for pros, 5 or 6 six-handed tables. The winner of each tables moves on to the final table.

I also believe it was a freeroll for all, and as such, seemed much more collegial than an event where they had something at risk. May have affected play, not sure.

[MrDarling]

can't find it on youtyube - but I did see DN manage to discards trips J's..
Great player!