New Poker After Dark - Brilliant Minds
Preview: This week on NBC’s Poker After Dark viewers will witness six successful professional players highly regarded in the world of poker for their analytical thinking and mathematical prowess in a match which is being called “Brilliant Minds.” The match brings together two familiar faces in Chris Ferguson and Andy Bloch, and four newcomers in Brandon Adams, Bill Chen, Jimmy Warren, and David Sklansky. Each will put up $20,000 and compete for the $120,000 winner-take-all first prize.
Analysis: Should be an interesting one as most people know Ferguson and Bloch and their mathematic skills, but not too much about the others.
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Please, please...I ask that you never again have just mathematicians on your show. This week's "Brilliant Minds" has been the most painful Poker After Dark I have ever ever seen. I myself am just a casual player with my buddies, but I watch this show more for the characters you bring to the table, their stories, their honesty when each other misplays/misreads a hand...when their egos collide.
I realize that some of this week's guys are world class players, but outside of Jesus, these guys have zero personality, especially the Book writer and the Harvard Professor. The only thing I will remember about this table is that none of them believe in God...who cares, but if you are going to make a comment like that and act proud of it, tell us why!
Just because they know how to play does not mean you should put them on TV, I mean think about it...this show is supposed to be entertaining. If you really want to have these shell of a personality types on this show, bookend the table with the Mouth and Hellmuth and throw Doyle in the middle...now that would be entertainment...call it something like "Opposing Forces Collide."
If I see another table like this again I will probably stop watching...Seriously, I'd rather watch "The Bachelor" or HGTV, both of which are man code violations!
This has been one of the best poker after darks that you have ever had......I have enjoyed every minute of this show, watching such smart men thinking while they play poker...Great Game...