Well, last week I spoke enthusiastically about the new season of Celebrity Poker. This week they went back to their previous format of medicore poker playing. Tonight’s players were Timothy Busfield, Mo Gaffney, Dule Hill, Danny Masterson, and James Woods. Timothy played last season during the West Wing episode (yawn) and I have no idea why he was invited back as he busted out due to novice play last season too. Woods and Masterson actually know how to play but Woods couldn’t buy anything even closely resembling a starting hand. Masterson went heads up with Dule Hill who either got dealt the killer hand or pulled some sort of amazing draw. Dule has a whole two weeks of experience playing poker but when the deck smacks you in the face as hard as it did Hill you could sit a dog in front of a stack of chips and it would win.
Some interesting stuff:
Tonight’s episode was a lesson in making your all-in bets count. Several people made the mistake of calling or only putting out a modest raise pre-flop with the best hand only to get a call and get drawn out on. Poker Pro Phil Gordon pointed out several times that you have to push all-in in those situations. If you make it too easy to call you’re just asking for trouble.
James Woods mentioned that he now plays either online or in a casino every single day. I saw him in some of the filler video they were showing of the WPT Invitational so he seems to be on the long list of celebs who have caught the poker bug recently.