Bother’s Bar Sunday Night Poker Dates For Your Diary

By | May 19, 2012
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We’re approaching the last few weeks of the 2012 season, the most exciting yet, here’s the line up for the final five weeks – non regulars are invited to play in each and every one of them even if they have no overall league interest:

  • 20th May – 8pm, FREE – Mix It Up Real Good plays Badugi. You are advised to read up on Badugi hands – it’s less complex than it looks – the winning hand is the lowest hand with the most unique cards (in terms of rank and suit) in it.
  • 27th May – 8pm, £5.50 – The Bother Series of Poker Round 11.
  • 3rd June – 8pm, FREE – The Mix It Up Real Good Grand Final! Double stacked 8-Game Mix tournament. Put everything you’ve learned over the last six months to good use!
  • 10th June – 7:30pm, £22 – The BSOP SUPERSTACKED GRAND FINAL. Literally hundreds of pounds up for grabs in a special deepstacked tournament, not only for the tournament itself but also the fate of the bonus money riding on the league. Who’ll end the season covered in glory? Please note the earlier start time.
  • 17th June – 8pm start, £3.30 rebuy – The Shipping Forecast. Bother: Easterly 9 or 10, aggressive, raining chips, VERY GOOD. The season ends with a 6-handed unlimited rebuy turbo tourney, WINNER TAKES ALL. Set yourself a limit. The shipping forecast? They’ll be lots of it!

Details on how to join the Bother’s Bar Home Game Club on Pokerstars is given on the BSOP page. Exciting times! Good luck everyone! Especially me!

Be on a show (runthrough)

By | May 17, 2012
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I’ve had an e-mail:

Whizz Kid are in need of 3 pairs of fun folk to stand in as contestants for a game show run through on Wed the 23rd May. If you are outgoing, have a good sense of fun and fancy a bash please contact me on abbi.shouler@whizzkid.tv asap.

Thanks

Abbi

So there we are. No idea what it’s for.

In other news it sound like Fort Boyard‘s Olivier Minne will be fronting a French version of Wild Rover’s Take the Money and Run on a French satellite channel next month. So that’s exciting isn’t it?

Can someone please explain…

By | May 16, 2012
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…how on earth it takes 3-4 hours to film an episode of The Chase? What unique challenges face it as a production? Because from where I’m sitting it’s just some people answering questions, requiring little in the way of movement and no more than about 4 different shots.

I’ve heard many war stories from people who have participated and watched the show, but no specifics.

US pilot recording accounts here.

The Price Was Right

By | May 15, 2012
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Rather brilliantly, someone has put up the very first episode of UK The Price is Right from 1984 up on Youtube. Between the ages of about four and seven, this was my favourite thing ever.

It is fair to say I loved everything about this when growing up and watching this back I still sort of do, for me it remains William G Stewart’s best thing he was involved with. I love the glamourous looking set (which no other version has quite captured). I love the non-ironic excitement (there must be £10k+ worth of prizes here which obviously is *huge* for 1984, and doubtless caused regulatory problems along with the skill-less wheel). And I love Leslie Crowther playing host in a rather theatrically avuncular way, in control but giving the impression he’s just trying to stay in control when anything could happen.

The showcase is a bit weird though – each package has a “highlight prize” and to win it you have to be within 10% of the price, so it feels like you’ve lost even if you won. No wonder they changed it.

Of course what I most remember about Crowther’s Price is Right was how genuinely terrified I was by the game Cliffhangers. It is, of course, a classic, where a cardboard man makes his way up a hill TO HIS DOOM and then if the contestant is too far off with their guess, PLUMMETS TO HIS DEATH WITH A BLOOD-CURDLING SCREAM. Terrifying as a five year old, hilarious in retrospect.

Show Discussion: Blockbusters

By | May 13, 2012
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Weekdays 8pm
Challenge TV

Well it’s been what THE NATION has been crying out for, a return to good old classic quizzes based around letters of the alphabet that’s already been bought back twice previously. I can’t say I’m that excited to be honest, although we like Simon Mayo so you never know.

I don’t know what sort of numbers it’s going to attract and how much it’s going to need to be a decent term viable proposition although they’ve advertised the hell out of it which is likely to help. 40 episodes have been filmed originally intended to go as two runs of twenty, although despite being originally informed as being an hour long look in fact to be a much more sensible half an hour. Maybe they’ve got two episodes out of each one with the magic of the edit suite. It will definitely be interesting to see how the numbers trend throughout the first week.