World Poker Tour Season 1 (2008) Review

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(More customer reviews)5 dvds 1300 minutes, [...]. The poker experts commentary, are a little weak. I would prefer to have a real tourament player (winner) being the host. But its not bad, good camera views and you can see the hole cards. Buy it you will enjoy about 20 hours of WPT poker. GOOD LUCK!

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Ultimate Poker Challenge Season One (2005) Review

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(More customer reviews)I enjoy watching the WPT Poker Videos. I've also purchased the Superstars Poker Videos. This series is a step below both of those tournament poker videos. It's a bit amateurish, but that's a bit charming at times--Mike Matusow in a bad suit pretending he's really excited explaining the play-by-play in one episode where he's the guest commentator. That's not bad.
This series could be so much better if it focused more on the poker hands and if it learned from the WPT. For example, one episode, the first hand shown, is an all-in and someone goes out. The next hand shown, is another all-in and someone else goes out. Now we're done to four and we've hardly seen any poker. I'm sure there were other hands going on--but they didn't show them. Another example, one hand someone is chip leader--the very next hand shown--he's short-stacked! A smaller nitpick is when someone is all-in and the guest commentator is explaining what cards can win it for them--they can't complete the sentence before the dealer turns over the critical card. So much for suspense. And like the WPT Poker Tours events, they'll still spend part of each episode explaining how to play Texas Holdem with their Shana be-alike, "Brandy", along with long introductions, and at the end, awarding a camera to the winner of the event. Please, please, please next season focus on POKER! You don't have to be brain surgeon to realize if you do that, you won't screw up.
A good part about the series is that you do get several episodes on each CD and it seems a decent value for the money. But I've found myself much preferring to watch WPT events or WSOP events. Watching the Ultimate Poker Season can be like pulling teeth.

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Ultimate Poker Challenge: Season One captures all the fun and excitement of the first nationally syndicated, weekly poker tournament ever shown on television, in an 8-DVD set containing all 26 one-hour episodes of the tournament! Amateurs as well as top players from around the world test their poker prowess as they compete for the Grand Prize – and all the glory – in the gambling capital of the world – Las Vegas !

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Tilt - Season One (2005) Review

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(More customer reviews)So I picked up this DVD set at Walmart because I love Eddie Cibrian, enjoy solid drama and thought series looked interesting from the packaging. Not having seen Rounders- the constant referral to it by the producers in the behind the scenes shots meant little. I watched this through in 3 sittings and was thoroughly entertained. Madsen as The Matador is chilling- his gravelly voice is full of such menace you wonder why everyone around him isn't in constant fear.....the three young poker players do an admirable job of pulling themselves together and through difficulties to bring down their nemesis. Lots of subplots all culminate in some tricky crime drama worthy of Tony Soprano.
Series is written by veteran mystery/crime writer Lawrence Block. His direct verbal style translates well to the Vegas poker scene. What I really liked here was the showing of the gambling world as a not too pretty place- lots of glitz on the surface but murky depths that few care to dwell in. Don McManus as Lowball is such slime- a bottom dweller unable to give up power and the game as head of the Colorado casino where the action in Tilt takes place.
Stylish, fun- full of pretty boys and girls but not too much t&a- this is a guilty pleasure I look forward to seeing more of!

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If you like poker, especially Texas Hold 'em, you'll love "Tilt", starring Michael Madsen of "Reservoir Dogs." This three-disc, nine-episode dramatic series takes a wide-camera look at the world of tournament poker while introducing several story arcs, including the efforts of various upstart players and the FBI to take down fictional poker legend Don "The Matador" Everest (Madsen) toward an inevitable showdown at a dramatically heightened but credibly staged World Series of Poker. Created and produced by Brian Koppleman and David Levien who wrote and produced "Rounders," "Tilt" gives its audience an exciting look at the Vegas lifestyle through a gambling pro's point-of-view.

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