Have you watched Face the Ace yet on NBC?

Steve Schirripa hosts an entertaining poker show, featuring heads up play against a poker pro.  Contestants have to win a free qualifying tournament on Full Tilt poker to be eligible for the show.  At the start they get to choose one of the four doors, behind which is a poker pro and thats who they will take on in heads up Texas Holdem poker.

$40,000 for the first round, they can risk it all for the $200,000 on the second round against another poker pro and then go all in for the big prize of $1 million in the final round.

I like the fact that you can see ordinary people playing against the best.  A sort of a David vs Goliath… of course the crowd always supports the under dawg.

Even though play is fairly quick, I miss the banter that goes with a full table of pros playing against each other.