PokerStars: The BIG Game in 2024

Pretty awkward watch with the whole running it twice thing. As another poster pointed out, the LC would have had a profit if she hadn't done so in those key hands at the end. Overall it's been a decent show so far imo although the table talk got a little annoying towards the end. Stapes has been absolutely hilarious. How many LC's are we getting? The old seasons did 6 on each I think.

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I would like to formally apologise to Arden and have this comment struck from the record.

There is 1 other LC, it's a 10 episode season

Sadly I think the LC's rep took a dive with those running it twice decisions. She didn't run especially well but she really needed to run it once and it might have changed everything. I think to a degree her confidence got rocked after Hellmuth called down her bluff in episode 3, I think in her head she was already seeing herself having 'her TV moment' when he folded and when he called her quickly I do think she struggled with confidence from that point on.

That 6s v 5s hand was really poorly played by both IMO. Arden runs good at life that's all i'll say.

Saw the last episode with Limo.

No idea wtf she's doing running it twice with hardly any hands left. It would be bad enough if she was at starting stack or even up 10-20k but it's horrendous with below a starting stack.

You don't want to reduce your variance you want to increase it.

ya definitely on the "coach" too she was like 5 feet away just yell lol

Griffin … its really time to let it go man

Poor Tilly getting Gus’d.

Arden Cho is so intolerable. Cannon messed up real bad running it twice, Lex chimed in and got her on the right track in the end, but little too late. Keating missing from last episode was really sad.

She is fairly new to playing poker, but as you said she has a lot of professional friends. Chris Moorman & Katie Lindsay was her neighbours before, and she obviously has a lot of other friends that also takes the game seriously. I also heard on a podcast that she has primarily been a cash game player.

Despite this, I thought she played pretty bad and I didn't see many hands that would indicate she actually has a lot of winning strategies in her arsenal. It's obviously possible that she was nervous and couldn't quite handle the lights/attention. That does however seem unlikely given her extensive YouTube-background, as well as being a podcast host. She seemed afraid to value bet properly, and obviously the strategy with running it twice towards the end is absurdly bad when she needs two double ups to be in profit.

Honestly also think she could have gotten away from KTo in her bustout hand. She only had 1700 invested and although people know she has to gamble I don't think KTo stands up well when both Lex and especially Jen have potted behind her. There was still a couple of hands left after, if I remember correctly (even if they only showed the last one).

Overall I like the concept, but they are spending way too long on introductions and other fluff. The show also gets a lot more interesting if you have a cannon that goes after it a bit more.

Bomb pot every 30 hands with each player putting in $2,000

Haha wow, I haven't watched Ep. 5 but I see now that I need to move that episode up in the queue. Did she really run it twice that late in the game? I get the reasoning for doing this early on, but jeeeez.

It's sort of the opposite of the player folding AA preflop. As crazy as it looked, it made perfect sense given the format of the game. David Fishman understood the assignment, Nikki Limo clearly didn't, based on what I'm reading above.

But at least she won the first run out.

Five episodes per LC is too many.

She started the KT hand with about 25k, given that she only gets to keep winnings above 50k I don't think there's any way to get away at that point. Even if she wins that hand she's only up to 57k for a tiny profit and there's at least some small chance that Jen could fold to a shove, if Nikki folds then she has 23k and needs more than a double up with at most a handful of hands left. Even if Jen turns over AK it isn't terrible to get it in there because you have to at some point or you can't win.

When are the episodes with the next LC out?

My guess is they will wait until after the WSOP

well thats stupid goodbye momentum

Just a guess given that those wanting their poker fix can watch the WSOP until July 17. So maybe we get more episodes after that, then later this year another series of Game of Gold.

What momentum? There was some talk about the big game online when it was first announced again and then when episode 1 debuted, but since then, when the WSOP started, no one is talking about it.

So are we gonna get the 2nd loose cannon now?

The answer is yes and in a couple of days time.

Being honest this table line up looks ******* awful compared to the first one (apart from Phil Laak who always brings something unique to a game)

^ Yikes

Just to further review how out of touch I am with the poker world, who is the loud guy in the yellow shirt?

momentum? the show is garbage and lmao @ that preview for the new show

You took one of the best cash game shows in history and turned it into a circus. It has to be reiterated, this should never of had TBG branding it should have been called something else.

Ugh this looks terrible and that's coming from someone who likes all TV poker. Who the heck is the loud annoying guy in the yellow shirt.

It's Sam grafton, a UK pro. Like you said he's usually really loud and outgoing. You would think that was good for TV poker but although I've got nothing against him, and he always plays well, he just makes the table more annoying imo.

This table completely sucks, the first one was pretty good and this is disappointing. Not even Stapes can save this.