show: Celebrity Poker Showdown
The Bottom Line: "Superb"
No-Limit Texas Hold 'Em plus celebrities plus alcohol equals some interesting poker play! It's great to see celebrities when they get serious about the game between all the goofing around. The players (some good, some bad) also earn extra points in my book for raising money for charity. One half-point deduction is for the reality (non-)star game at the beginning of tournament 6. That was the only episode where even the winners were losers! ; ) Another half-point is for the expansion of each episode to two-hours by adding an hour's worth of "padding" (more celebrity interviews, chit-chat, host commentary, etc.) Pardon the pun, but "Bravo" to Bravo for airing what Dave Foley once described as "the show where sucking out and flopping the nuts are activities the whole family can enjoy." [Both of those are poker terms, for those of you with dirty minds]
