Posted by Johnnymac 6:09 AM
Few more points I thought of about Tilt:

- If the "Matador" is so good, then why does he need to cheat some guy from Iowa? And if he doesn't respect $8,000, why did he cheat to get it?

- If the guy from Iowa knows he's a cheat, then why did he still play with him? Is this a sting operation gone awry that we haven't been told about yet?

- If the brother was a cheater in his own right, and knew HOW the Matador cheated, then why did he too sit down in a game and lose all of his money?

- I think Junell made a point about the table talk in a comment to one of my posts below. I agree. The table talk is completely unrealistic. No one talks that much and no one I have ever played with or seen is that good at it or that willing to provoke someone with it, or, frankly, that rude. If someone started using canned lines like that on me, I would have thought that I was either being punk'd or cheated or in the middle of some bad poker TV show. POKER IS NOT PLAYED THAT WAY.

- One of the reviews below refers to there not being enough "dumpy Asian guys". That is correct, everyone in the entire show either looks like a model or a gangster.

- Why are people playing in back rooms... IN VEGAS? And what was the point, exactly, of the Jim Crow card club scene? Is it that black gang members aren't allowed in casinos? Last I saw, this wasn't the case. And besides, what kind a gangbanger plays poker in a backroom? Ask Dave Chapelle, if anything, they would be throwing dice. Perhaps they are trying to make a point about the ubiquity and popularity of poker, but in Vegas whay would anyone want to play anywhere other than in a casino, much less in a dark backroom with no free drinks (or waitresses - I love Bellagio), bad lights, and barely enough room to move around?

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