Late Night Poker

i do a GRATE jessie mae impression, no really...

that poker club documentary last night was absolutely *pitiful* btw, i don't think the woman who made it had any idea about the poker thing, like, "oh no there are slightly odd single blokes (eg jac arama) and when the go to moscow to play poker they get PROSTITUTES etc, v poor.

i watched the poker tournament yesterday on sky it was exciting! and they have a little box that tells you what all the lingos are! and when it came one-on-one they have scantily clad girls pouring a box full of bank notes worth $1.7 million onto the table!

Good ol' Jesse 'Cash Me In' May is back on commentary, except now paired with Simon 'Aces' Trumper instead of Barny Boatman. They appear to be doing that whole thing of showing all the hands, though, which is a key factor in making poker on the telly A Bit Rub. Jesse's presence counts for an awful lot, though.

Already this is showing why LNP is superior to every other poker-based telly programme ever - the silence! The silence in LNP is brilliant, it just lets everything else work, lets the tension become unbearable, which is only heightened by the sudden shifts in excitement of the commentators... Jesse May's world of imperceptible terminology (already this evening we've had "75 quidaroos", and the greeting of an ace-queen with "Hellooo darlin'") is in a whole wide world of its own. The way it keeps up with the action and in some ways is the action is quite amazing. Every card feels like a penalty shootout all on its own...

Like it's never been gone. Marvellous.

But 'Oz' is on in 40 minutes. Result! Thanks, online TV guide.

Still - "75 quidaroos." Can't go hatin' on that.

http://www.zappos.com/n/br/bq/855.html

I am addicted to the Texas HoldEm Poker app on Facebook

So am I. I had an amazing couple of hands yesterday, and now I'm a 3-star "Poker Pro"

Me too! Except knowing that I get 100 points each day has made me a bit too call-happy.

You guys are all playing in the ilxor tournament at full tilt this sunday, right?

What's Full Tilt? I thought there was a tournament going on at Poker Stars.

I'm still not sold on actual online gambling.

Poker stars is not mac compatible apparently. So that'll be three different poker apps installed on my system. Probably end up with $50 hanging around unused and forgotten in each one.

I'm on a Mac, too. Poker sites and most ftp's, out of my reach.

Full Tilt is fine on Mac

I won my first facebook tourney. Even though it's play money people have some pretty weird strategies.

nate, we planned a Stars tourney last weekend but not enough people were keen. So we've got one planned at Full Tilt for 4pm ET (9pm GMT) this Sunday - in the private tourneys section of Full Tilt, called ILXor Poker Showdown, costs $5.50 and the password is nabisco.