The second best poker show on TV.
The first you ask?
High Stakes Poker of course.
But this is a pretty close second and with the line up pretty stacked now with Phil Ivey, Patrick Antonious, Tom Dwan, Eli Elizra, Ilari Sahamies and Howard Lederer its good to watch.
The game has moved from $300/$600 all the way up to $500/$1000 with a $200 ante and more than that there is a huge amount of prop bets going on.
Ivey and Ziggy are playing $50,000 a hand red-black and there are numerous other bets going on with a bunch of the players, tens and fifties of thousands are changing hand all over the place and it is really strating to affect the way the guys play the hands too.
Example:
Ivey has taken Red in the props with Ziggy and looks down at two Diamonds, now with the blinds $500-$1000 there is $2,700 in the pot to start, however the prop with Ziggy is for $50,000 a flop, almost 20 times that and with Phil holding 2 red cards he knows there is less of a chance that the flop will be red, which means he doesn’t want anyone to see a flop and potentially save himself $50k in props.
Ziggy also knows this, and so do all the other players at the table, so now they are not only potentially rasing people with good and or bad hands, but with two red or two black cards just to keep people away from flops.
Makes for an interesting dynamic.