A Little Lost Poker
Kate: Will you please stop calling every hand, Donkey-Boy?
So THAT'S Why Hurley was on Celebrity Poker Showdown.
A buddy lent me Season Two of the uber-popular ABC television series Lost, and I hunkered down to watch them all in to prep for the newly began Season Three. Much to my delight, in a pivotal moment in the plot, four of the main characters sat down and started playing Texas Hold'em. Now, much has been said about the show and its more fantastical elements, but I have had no problem dealing with black-smoke monsters, The Others, and the insanely-incredible coincidences (like how everyone on the island has, at some point in their past, bumped into everyone else. At least, it seems that way) but the moment Jack started talking about "Baby Straights" and saying "I'm all in" I kinda got weirded out.
Now, seeing as the plane crashed in 2004 (September 22, to be exact) and the Moneymaker Craze of 2003, not to mention the behemouth that is the World Poker Tour, had been on the march for some time, it makes perfect sense that the castaways would play hold'em, rather than five card draw or some other game. Still. I suppose it has to do with the fact that (other than watching Lost) I am so thoroughly focused on the poker world that it took me out of my "suspension of disbelief" coccoon; you know- the one absolutely required to dig the show. (Need I mention the black smoke monster again?)
If you didn't catch the episode, it was "Lockdown" (Hey, I JUST got it! John Locke!)and it- like the rest of the series- is worth checking out. And, yes, I did pause the DVD to see what Kate and Hurley were holding, and put myself in Sawyer's shoes in a game of "How would YOU play it."