Pro-Am Poker Equalizer Professionals vs. Celebrities

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Episode 6 Details

Episode 6

Air date:
Day: Friday
Date: Feb 16
Time: 3:00pm

Featuring:
Pros:
Gold
Seed
Madsen
Benyamine
Celebrity:
Hiatt
Alexander

Tale of the tape

Jason Alexander might be the king of the castle when it comes to Celebrity Poker Showdown, but he might experience some shrinkage when he goes swimming with card sharks Huckleberry Seed, David Benyamine, Jamie Gold, and Jeff Madsen.

Alexander’s competition in Celebrity Poker Showdown made the mistake of thinking they were playing against George Costanza, his Seinfeld character. Unfortunately for them Costanza, a lazy, greedy, jealous, conniving, and cheap pig - to name a few of his good qualities, is nothing like the gifted actor. In this tournament, fellow amateur Shana Hiatt and the pros will attempt to separate the man from the myth and, more importantly, the man from his chips.

Hiatt, who is the host of the upcoming show Poker After Dark and the former host of the World Poker Tour, knows that her talents at the table will be underestimated, and she’ll use that to her advantage. After all, who better than a former Hawaiian Tropic model to make these guys to take their eyes off their cards.

However, her plan may backfire on Benyamine. It seems whenever she’s around, the Frenchman has good luck. Back when she was on the WPT, Benyamine had several great finishes, including taking first at the Grand Prix de Paris and the Battle of Champions. Not so much now that she’s off the show. This summer he had his worst WPT finish ever, 79th at the Festa Al Lago in Las Vegas.

Jeff Madsen and Jamie Gold went from being two unknown players at this year’s WSOP to being the two biggest stars of the tournament. Madsen won two gold bracelets and was named the WSOP Player of the Year – especially impressive since he’s also the youngest player to ever win WSOP gold. Gold won his gold with his hyper-aggressive play and dominated the final days of the Main Event, eventually taking home its $12 million top prize. It’ll be interesting to see how these men, who both made names for themselves at the WSOP, try to knock each other out of the tournament.

Huckleberry Seed, the Main Event winner in 1996, says that he likes to lull his opponents into a false sense of security by giving them small victories so he can he win bigger ones later on. We’ll see if that’s the case here. The last time he was in a tournament with Madsen, he came in 11th and Madsen finished third.