Posted Fri Feb 18, 2005 7:26 pm GMT by wEbMaStEr
Just finished watching this after downloading it a few weeks ago and it was actually a nice little piece of poker coverage.
The tournament itself, the Victor (Chandler) Poker cup was 100 players in a double shootout format, 10 tables of 10 players paying £5000, winner of each table going thru to final table for a crack at £250,000
Not an immense payday by WPT standards or whatever, but still nice :D
The coverage of the qualifying tables was minimal, restricted to basically telling you who won each table and a fottnote kinda thing about where a few more familiar faces who played finished. (Vinnie Jones and John McCrirrick for example)
So after some preamble it was pretty much straight onto the final table, again here there wasn't so much actual play shown, more just the major hands, the all ins, players being knocked out etc.
In between hands they had a clock graphic showing how long had passed since the last piece of action, this got a little irritating for me, but when you consider that final table lasted almost 8 hours it did kinda show you just how long these things can take. It did actually also add a little to the tension of the whole affair, knowing that these guys had been playing for 6 hours, and it was now 3 am etc.
The lack of flow at the final table kinda interupted things for me, but then again, who the hell wants to watch 8 hours of passing to the big blind? 
This was a British production, so some of the names may not be very familiar to most of you, some of the names you may recognise tho, Harry Demitriou (2004 wsop, remember Josh Arieh telling him he sucked after losing a big pot to him  ) Ram Vaswani (one of the finest British players around and my tip for greatness in years to come) Ross Boatman & Joe Beevers (members of the Hendon mob along with Ram) Julian Gardener (whiny annoying runner up of wsop 2002, was actually pretty quiet in this  ) Dave "Devilfish" Ulliot makes an appearance and does a little commentating.
All in all it was very watchable and i recommend you have a look for it if your bored and wanna watch some new poker.
Oh by the way, The chips they used, they looked great! I want some!
Also, Barny Boatmans commentary, I mean, mannnnnn, if someone can predict action and get it wrong EVERY time, it's him!
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Posted Fri Feb 18, 2005 8:42 pm GMT by Geno
| wEbMaStEr wrote: | | Also, Barny Boatmans commentary, I mean, mannnnnn, if someone can predict action and get it wrong EVERY time, it's him! |
Lol, I like the guy but you are right!
PM me.
Posted Sat Feb 19, 2005 1:19 am GMT by wEbMaStEr
I like barny too, but man! You will see.
Towards the end it's like "he should pass this" fold. "he should call here" raise. It's pretty funny how wrong he actually gets it
PMing you right now
Posted Mon Feb 21, 2005 6:36 pm GMT by Teekan
I was hyped to see Jack Arama play at the final table but he didn't get that far.
That guy likes to play and it definately shows :D
Posted Tue Feb 22, 2005 3:34 am GMT by wEbMaStEr
I watched an old Late Night Poker the other night with Jac Arama, Joe Beevers and David Colclough(sp?) as the last 3
Jac was chip leader and pretty much threw it away because of his "liking to play"
Colclough ended up winning it because Beevers "likes to play" too 
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