Set the DVRs and VCRs: High Stakes Poker is Back

[shipitfish]

I am excited to remind everyone that, tonight, the second season of High Stakes Poker begins. I've talked about the show in my journal before, and I firmly believe it is the best poker on television. (I've also heard good things about Live at the Bike, but there is no question that High Stakes Poker is the best show on regular old basic cable.)

I looked around and saw that the second season has been well reviewed, at least in one spot. After spending a few months watching people deciding when it's the right moment to flip a coin for a couple hundred thousand dollars (aka the World Poker Tour), I will be glad to see some world class players play a game that is actually recognizable as the game that I play myself each week.

The other great thing about High Stakes Poker is that I can tell people who don't know much my hobby to watch it. I simply have to tell them, “Ok, knock two zeros off the end of the dollar amounts in question, and that's the basically the game that I reguarly play, albiet my games have a few notches down in skill level all around”. It's nice to have a maintstream place to point people from outside the poker world to show them what a “regular ring game” is really like.

Finally, I should note to Tivo users: I discovered that tonight's episode is not coded properly with the correct original air date. Therefore, your Season Pass for the show won't find it as a new episode. It seems all the new episodes are coded with a general description and a first air date from the preimere of the Season 1 preimere in January.

Comments

[patty-bush.livejournal.com]

damnit, I'm so pissed, I hate Comcast even more now. They didn't include GSN in my package. I get a bunch of other crap channels. :|

HSP Torrents

[salvelinus.livejournal.com]

I don't get GSN on my Comcast package either, but there is an out...

http://etaipo.livejournal.com/

This guy records the programs and seeds the torrents. He even edits out the commercials.

Not endorsing piracy, but if there's no other way to get the program...

Re: HSP Torrents

[patty-bush.livejournal.com]

I've heard of torrents, but never used them, how do they work?

Re: HSP Torrents

[salvelinus.livejournal.com]

Bit torrent is a way to share files - any file, not just movies or programs, so torrents are a legitimate way to share files. With torrent software, multiple users exchange pieces of a file with each other instead of downloading one complete file from a central source. To get torrent files, you need the file sharing software (check out www.bittorrent.com) and a link to "tracker" webpage which is a sort of index. Once the torrent downloading software is installed, you can just click on the link on Etaipo's livejournal page and save the file (no need to find a tracker webpage). He saves his files as window media if I recall correctly, so the Windows media player should play them fine.

Check out the Wikipedia entry for more info on torrents.

Great informative post!

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