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1/15/05
- ESPN Original Entertainment's 'Tilt' is a Flop.
Excuse the pun but
that’s exactly what it was. Instead of offering some hands
on advice today I’m going to take a different tact here
and do a little review of this ESPN production. ESPN aired it’s
highly anticipated new series TILT about a wily group of card
players that are looking to make their mark on the Las Vegas
poker scene.
The show chronicles
the movements of a group of 3 young card players and the different
multiplayer
tournaments and cash games they play in. They’re
goal is to get in with ‘The Matador’, a shady Las
Vegas pro with links to the Las Vegas underworld. In the show
‘The Matador’ Don Everest cheats his way through
playing Texas Holdem and resorts to physical violence when he
wants to get his point across. The actor, Michael Madsen, did
a great job of portraying this guy to be the lowlife that he
is and helped to re enforce a ‘vegas cliché’
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The three young
card players, trying to infiltrate the biggest games in Las Vegas
, can barely get out of each others way. Half the show we watch
as they bicker back and forth, trying to prove who has the more
inflated bravado. If the idea was for these characters to come
off as complete self-centered egomaniacs then ESPN did a good
job. Not really sure what the objective of this show was but
if they were trying to endear these characters to the audience
they failed miserably.
If anything this
show did a good job of showing you the underside of Las Vegas.
But I think it painted a picture of a town and a game that is
not very accurate. A lot has changed in Las Vegas and playing
cards, in general, and this was a poor depiction of what Texas
Holdem is all about (just ask Chris Moneymaker). Certainly there
are card games in dingy back rooms that will be fixed but that
is a small minority compared to the fun action packed games that
you and I enjoy and thrive around the world everyday.
Watching that show
left a bad taste in my mouth and would discourage anyone from
wanting to play No Limit Texas Holdem in Las
Vegas. Hey you know what, I’ll stay home and play online
in the comfort of my home instead. In fact, it made me think
that if you’re scared that a card game may be fixed then
playing online
Texas Holdem is the way to go
Online players can’t
get on from the same IP address. If players are known to play
at the same tables too much, they’re restricted from doing
so in the future. All the other players are a self policing body
and report unusual behavior. The crookedness shown on ‘TILT’
where ‘the Matador’ fixes the game and knows everyone
at the table would be impossible to pull off online, unless you
specifically set up a private game. In which case you have chosen
to play with those players voluntarily.
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Anyway…off
on a tangent. The bottom line, in my opinion, TILT was a disappointing
ESPN offering. The plot lines were weak and hard to follow, the
acting was second class and because I couldn’t relate to
any of the characters I checked out. I can tell you this…I
won’t be setting my schedule around it and won’t
be surprised when it’s cancelled after 5 episodes. ESPN
should stick to broadcasting the WSOP and leave the dramatic
series’ to somebody else.
A big thumbs DOWN.
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