Heads-up poker on network TV!

[k3nt]

I'm still recovering from the astonishment at finding poker on network TV!! I don't have cable, so when I wake up in the morning and start flipping channels I really don't expect to find poker as an option.

It was on Sunday morning (11 AM here in the Central time zone) on NBC. The coverage was mediocre overall, but there was some fun stuff. I guess it'll be on the next several weeks, probably at the same time, as they still have 16 people left in the single-elimination format.

They tried to make Negreanu the central guy in the telecast, but he lost pretty quickly it looked like, so they went to Hellmuth. I had never seen Phil play heads-up before. Interesting stuff. He came across as an a$$hole, as usual, but at the same time I could see where he was coming from in some of the things he said.

David Sklansky beat Johnny Chan. Cool matchup. Too bad they showed so little of that one.

Anybody else see it? Any comments/thoughts?

[Nortonesque]

That was the third episode -- there was one last Sunday as well and another one two days ago on Saturday. I read they might be replaying them on CNBC.

Sklansky also took out Phil Ivey in the first round, and they didn't show any of that either.

[bobby]

I guess any poker on TV is cool, but the commentary leaves a bit to be desired...The featured match I saw on Sunday was Paul Phillips vs Phil Hellmuth (No love lost between those two) and at the end, Paul show s a "Kill Phil" T shirt...it was pretty funny!!

[MVPSPORTS]

I would say that, at best, the coverage was EHH... All they seemed to show were the damned allin races... it was chase after chase after chase... Not too much poker skill... It seemed more like "I got a K... allin" rat race...

One interesting one I did see was James Woods v. Johnny Chan... Woods had AQ I think and Chan had KQh... Chan had 2pr on the flop, Woods hit his straight on the turn, just to lose to Chan's flush on the river... Glad to see those kind of hands happen to other people, too...

I know that WPT games aren't real poker, and they just show the most interesting hands, but it's still fun to think of some of these guys strategy, and how they play the hand out... The heads up doesn't really give a lot of that...