So I've just caught up on all the new episodes of HSP and so far its been a pretty entertaining season! Definitely dislike having only one commentator, probably the only poker show I've ever seen with one commentator and its pretty brutal. No back and forth banter, no laughter at jokes except from the person telling it... awkward. Really want them to bring in someone else.
There's been some really amateur mistakes it seems in terms of tells. Spoilers Lie ahead if you havent seen the episodes and dont wanna know what happens you should probably not read whats coming!
That Hoivold guy makes the comment that he's not folding after making a raise that commits himself with a draw but i've really only seen live players do that when they actually do have draws making it easier for his opponents to call him down with pretty much any pair.
Similar thing with negreanu vs elezra when he lets eli pick one card to turn over which I'm sure he would never really do with a monster. Maybe it was a level based on history between the two of them that isn't capture within the scope of the show but it seemed like he wanted Eli to fold and Eli picked up on it pretty easily.
Really interesting hand though against the 2 best players at the table, in the most recent episode the bluff with dwan vs ivey @ the end of the episode, dwan fires 3 barrels which is not unstandard given he doesnt think ivey has anything super strong and at best 2 pair but mostly one pair hands. Amazing though that Ivey even considers calling the river with the pair, he must really know durrrr's bluff frequencies to the point that getting like almost 3:1 that he will be good enough of the time with bottom pair in a spot where dwan's range is pretty much uncapped. I think Ivey's concern in the end was that durrrr might be merging with some hand like TJ and he'd end up getting owned by his own hero call. Hilarious to see durrr sweat it out though as Ivey says "this is going to be the sickest call of all time"! Also hilarious that Elezra is sleeping in a 700k pot.
