Do you think high stakes poker should ban prop bets?

GammonGo · Joined: 14 Jun 2007 Posts: 14

I saw an episode recently of High Stakes Poker when Gabe Kaplan commented that he should talk to all the producers of the show about the prop bets interfering with the flow of the game. He said that players seemed to be more interested in the props than the game. Actually there was one hand where Negrneu lost, but he actually won more in his prop bets than he had lost in the pot.

 I thought that that the all the prop bet was a conversation that had com from the entertainment factor because I didn’t get the action is a viewer.

Bardi · Joined: 14 Jun 2007 Posts: 22

You must have not realized it, but it was an old episode. Prop bets have now been banned from the show. For me I really felt like it took away form the show. It was totally not as entertaining with them there. You know why, because most of the talk and a lot of the money seemed to be in events that the commentator and the audience didn’t seem to follow.

Hedge · Joined: 14 Jun 2007 Posts: 18

Yeah prop bets were a bad addition to the show and should never be added again. You were probably watching an old episode and all the players were talked to already about it. They should never ever use those; remember when Doyle had that sheet of paper and he was using on the High Stakes Poker show? He was using it to keep track of things because he had so many prop bets.